Hello everyone :)
I have been sitting here for probably 10 minutes just staring at the wall trying to remember what happened this week!
I was able to pull together a few memories from my very very scattered mind. So gather around children, it's story time!
We go over once a week to read out of the Bible with an older Less-active lady in our branch. She has, in the past, been pretty against reading the Book of Mormon and insists we read from the Bible. Which we do. This last time we went over she had recently fallen and broken her shoulder. We knew this before going over and expected her to be in an even worse mood. BUT she wasn't! There was something different about her, she had a glow about her, it was so interesting. She wasn't feeling good physically. She had a broken shoulder!! But she told us how she was outside in the middle of the night when she fell and couldn't get up. She prayed, and then someone walked by and helped her! That simple prayer made her feel her Heavenly Father's love and brightened her whole countenance. She let us read from the Book of Mormon with her after that :)
We met Burt when we were following up with a potential investigator. They are room mates. Burt answered the door and we started talking about what he knew about Mormons. He told us he passed the temple in Portland a lot. It's not usually our door approach to start talking about the temple and eternal families but it just kind of flowed. We introduced the book of Mormon and he said he would read it! It was a really cool, spirit lead, experience.
We have an addiction recovery class on Thursdays. We are asked to go, and invite a lot of people. It's been pretty tiny so far, even though we invite a lot of people. Well before class we has dinner with one of the individuals we had been inviting. We didn't talk much about it, just normal dinner conversation, and a casual reminder at the end. Well she showed up! Half way through, right at the point I thought she definitely wasn't going to make it. She told us how our spirits were telling hers that it was time for her to come. Such a sweet powerful experience.
David! We had another lesson with David this week. We taught the Plan of Salvation very very simply. He may have different beliefs but he is still willing to learn and listen. And even if he isn't ready to accept he is still learning to feel the spirit and the spirit is the real teacher. At the end of our lesson he prayed with our pattern of prayer so that was a big step!
Jared is still going strong! He is reading the Book of Mormon everyday and he has been looking at the media on LDS.org and found the "Finding Faith in Christ" movie. He watched it by himself and now wants us to come over and watch it with him and his mom! That is what we are doing tonight!
So I didn't really take any pictures this week... But we did take a few videos for some reason... So I'll send those!
Spiritual Thought!!
Ether 12:27
"And if men come unto me I will show unto them their weakness. I give unto men weakness that they may be humble; and my grace is sufficient for all men that humble themselves before me; for if they humble themselves before me, and have faith in me, then will I make weak things become strong unto them."
It's our responsibility to...
1. Seek the Lord's help and with Him examine and overcome weaknesses.
2. Be a source of positivity and hope for others. Your responsibility is to point out others strengths, and ignore their weaknesses.
Love you all!! Hope your week is wonderful!!
💛Sister Anna Peterson
Video 1. When the sun comes out in Oregon...
We were waiting for our dinner appointment...
This is our kind of carpool karaoke...
For your viewing pleasure ;]
If the video doesn't work I had way to much fun making these gifs hehe
The gifs! LOL!
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