Hello world. This week was a'ight, can't complain. We met with our recent convert. We set a baptismal date with this really funny black lady. We volunteered at the food pantry, and at the hope center, which is a place where they give away free clothes and shoes to people who need them. Those are both really fun places to volunteer. You always meet the most interesting people. The food pantry is my favorite, the people there are super nice and the people are so happy to receive food. I feel like we did a lot of service this week which was great, it always makes a person feel good when they serve others. I keep finding more and more people here that are from the Burley area so that is pretty cool. The people here are amazing!!
A lady at church yesterday gave an amazing talk about gratitude, she talked about the ten lepers. She said that she knew that all ten lepers were extremely thankful that they were healed, but only one of them actually took the time to express that thanks, and because of that, his relationship with Jesus Christ was strengthened, where as the other nine did not have their relationships with Jesus Christ strengthened because they didn't take the time to thank him. And she talked about how many times we receive things and we are so thankful but we don't actually express that thanks to the person or to our Heavenly Father. But if we do express thanks that it makes our bonds and our relationships closer with our friends, family, and our Heavenly Father and our Savior Jesus Christ. I thought that was pretty profound.
A lady at church yesterday gave an amazing talk about gratitude, she talked about the ten lepers. She said that she knew that all ten lepers were extremely thankful that they were healed, but only one of them actually took the time to express that thanks, and because of that, his relationship with Jesus Christ was strengthened, where as the other nine did not have their relationships with Jesus Christ strengthened because they didn't take the time to thank him. And she talked about how many times we receive things and we are so thankful but we don't actually express that thanks to the person or to our Heavenly Father. But if we do express thanks that it makes our bonds and our relationships closer with our friends, family, and our Heavenly Father and our Savior Jesus Christ. I thought that was pretty profound.
Here is an awesome quote from President Gordon B. Hinckley that one of my STL's showed me.
"Many young women are serving missions, many are preparing to serve. Not because they aren't married or have nothing else to do, but because they have a desire to serve, therefore they are being called to the work. The reason so many are going is because in the next generation Heavenly Father will be sending His priesthood army to the earth and wants to send them to mothers who have been trained and taught in the gospel. What better training can a young women have than that of serving a mission!"
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