Blessed, glorious, celestial week!
So to be honest it was a week most like the others. Visiting, visiting,
visiting. Until the blessed Sabbath rolled around. My first week in the field
we met with Ashley. We have been meeting with her ever since. She is a delight.
She had kind of stopped progressing until bam she came to church two weeks in a
row, we taught her a magical lesson about the Atonement, and she came up to us
after sacrament meeting and asked us if we would pray for a baptismal date for
her! Blessed day! She has had two baptismal dates before but really didn't seem
to understand that without being baptized she couldn't have full access to the
Atonement, and we didn't want to pressure her. We felt that if we just kept our
faith up knowing the time would come it would. And it did! God really is a God
of miracles. People always act like miracles are magic but truly miracles are
just the natural reaction of faith. When there is faith there is a miracle.
Sometimes that miracle doesn't come until after the trail of our faith,
sometimes it comes fast, and I've even noticed that I had miracles in my life
that I didn't recognize until years after the fact. Heavenly Father is the same
today, yesterday, and forever. That means that when we keep the commandments we
are blessed. It's always been this way, and it will always be this way. Isn't
that the greatest? Oh I love the restored gospel. Oh I love being a missionary.
Oh I love being obsessed with the gospel, and no one can judge me because I am
a missionary. (Shout out to me before my mission.)
So I went to a mall for the first time since being set apart. That was weird. Everyone just stared at me trying to read my name tag. Talk about being self conscious. Then there is just worldly music being blasted every which way. Which I didn't so much mind, but then I remembered that I was a missionary, that I couldn't just do a little grape vine, and then it got a little awkward. I got a little overwhelmed in Forever 21. There are just music, bumping, clothes, and people everywhere. I found a skirt that covers my lovely lady knees, and was 50% off so that was nice. (Thank heavens that no one in Vegas wants to be as clothed as the missionaries so all the modest clothes are always on sale.) I am loving being on my mission. Of course I miss all my people but its great serving the Lord."
So I went to a mall for the first time since being set apart. That was weird. Everyone just stared at me trying to read my name tag. Talk about being self conscious. Then there is just worldly music being blasted every which way. Which I didn't so much mind, but then I remembered that I was a missionary, that I couldn't just do a little grape vine, and then it got a little awkward. I got a little overwhelmed in Forever 21. There are just music, bumping, clothes, and people everywhere. I found a skirt that covers my lovely lady knees, and was 50% off so that was nice. (Thank heavens that no one in Vegas wants to be as clothed as the missionaries so all the modest clothes are always on sale.) I am loving being on my mission. Of course I miss all my people but its great serving the Lord."
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