Haha! I just realized that I don't actually know what "in a nutshell" means or where it came from... Anyone got answers for me??
It's been a crazy week and I'm getting sick 😵 so it's going to be a short email today sorry.
We have been in high stress mode since Tuesday with the baptism coming up on Saturday and then having to be canceled and also transfer calls keeping us in suspence and those kind of fun things. Its just thrown off the whole week.
BUT!! We have also grown so much this week through the struggles. I have felt my Heavenly Father watching over me through this whole thing. We had been wanting to get blessings from our branch president for a couple weeks now but they just kept getting put off... Put off for the perfect moment! At the height of all the stress we took the time to get them and that blessing seriously carried me.
We sang in Sacrament Meeting on Sunday and I took a video during practice just for you mom ;)
Oh and transfers!... *drum roll*... We are both staying in Vernonia!! (which was completely unexpected!)
💙Spiritual Thought!!
My spiritual thought today come from the Book of Mormon (my favorite book). It's in 4 Nephi 1:17, 20, 35-39.
This is a time of peace in the Book of Mormon. Christ has appered to the people. He taught and healed them. When he left there was no contention or division among them. In verse 17 it describes how even the names Lamanites and Nephites weren't used anymore...
"There were no robbers, nor murderers, neither were there Lamanites, nor any manner of -ites; but they were in one, the children of Christ, and heirs to the kingdom of God."
In this time of perfect peace there were no labels used. Whether self-imposed or forced onto another they were done away with. The only title that mattered was Child of God!
Sadly only 3 verses later a small group deside to break off and separate themselves...
"And he kept it eighty and four years, and there was still peace in the land, save it were a small part of the people who had revolted from the church and taken upon them the name of Lamanites; therefore there began to be Lamanites again in the land."
In the whole history of the Book of Mormon there are only eighty four years with no labels! There is still peace, at the moment, but there is again division and only a few verses later there is war and hate.
We live in a very divided world today. How can we keep ourselves from falling into this trap of labels? I think it's important not to put labels on yourself as well as others. (my opinion is also backed up by an apostle in the Oaks and Ballard Face2Face.) Just remember we are all children of God and that is all that should matter!
Love you all so much!! Have a great week!!
💛Sister Peterson
Pics!
1. Collecting t-shirts of my areas :)
2. Hanging out Last P-day with a family in our branch
3. (sister Unferdorfer has a milk problem haha) we finished the branch presidents milk while he was gone and left this note for him...
4 & 5. Weekly planning can be hard sometimes and sometimes you just need to document it...
6 & 7. Beautiful poem and picture sent to me by my family for Christmas!!
(I'll send the video in a different email)
🎶And now, a special musical number composed by the branch presidents wife and preformed by the branch presidents daughter and the sister missionaries of Vernonia!!
Be Still My Soul/Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing
Hope it works, this is for you mom!
💛Sister Peterson
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