Hello everyone!
I hope you all had a great week! We had a lot of fun down here in the land of enchantment and we knew to be happy we needed to keep busy and work hard. Luckily God blessed us with a bunch of inspiring meetings and service opportunities.
Earlier in the week Elder Nielson, the seventy over the missionary department of the church came to tour our mission with his wife. They were so positive and kind. We spent majority of the day with them so they shared a lot of powerful messages but the one that hit me hardest had to do with change. Elder Nielson reminded me how our purpose in life is to face trial and adversity so we will grow and become who God intends for us to be. Just because we are facing trials and hardships doesn’t mean we have sinned or done anything wrong. Regardless of what life we live God will always give us experiences to help us improve. The important part of that though is that we then can choose how to react and to move forward with optimism knowing God is on our side and everything will work out. God will never abandon us and like 3 Nephi 9:14 says, Christs arm of mercy is extended towards us. Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ want to help us and support us in all our afflictions.
Some other cool opportunities came up like cleaning the temple grounds and participating in a missionary panel at our stakes women's conference. The panel consisted of our stake president, a bishop, a missionaries mom, a returned missionary, myself and Kassidy acting as youth. It was really fun and together we got to share ideas on what women can do to support and prepare their children to serve missions. While sitting in front of everyone I had one of those moments of “wow I’m a missionary!” I am so grateful for this time and I can’t believe it is almost over. Serving a mission has been the best decision I have ever made and I have grown so much through this journey. I know this is the true church of Jesus Christ. The spirit has borne witness to me again and again that this is what brings true happiness. I love my God!
Love,
Sister Nye
after cleaning the temple
Dions pizza
getting trunky to hold babies!!!!!!
Belief is the reason we go on a mission. It is the motive for preaching about Christ and sharing/Proclaiming his love. Faith is understanding we are children of God and our Heavenly Father. May the definition of faith bless you in life Faith is defined again and because faith has an inherent joy it gives us a solid foundation that we finally have the peace we have been searching for.
ReplyDelete"Many believer's feed themselves on what God hasn't done. When I dwell on what hasn't happened, I create the atmosphere for the spirit of offense to arise and to thrive. When I dwell on what hasn't happened, I legitimize unbelief. I live with a sense of justification, for not believing God.
Faith in the purest sense is the ceasing of resistance. even when there's no physical evidence, when the other evidence is present. Not feeding ourselves on what God hasn't done Faith in it's purest form is the absence of resistance
Heaven is a place where everyone is celebrated, some are more honored but everyone is celebrated. All men and all women shall be judged on the light which they have received. Heaven is a permissible culture. God's nature is eternally permissible. These statements protect us from credit.
Faith in the purest sense is the ceasing of resistance, even when there's no physical evidence, when the other evidence is present. Not feeding ourselves on what God hasn't done. Faith in it's purest form is the absence of resistance. Faith doesn't deny a problems existence, it denies it's influence. He or she was someone whom aridity and desolation never disturbed for he or she had a deeply rooted, and a vigorous faith.
Now we can act as we have always dreamed. Now we can act as we have always been. Now we can step into the light and gather the sunlight instead of blocking out our possibilities. Instead of blocking out our joy. Variety will bloom in/under the sun. We can show off our best, we can enjoy other people's gifts. We can blossom where we stand upon the joy that faith provides us. Upon the joy that faith inherently has, which blossoms the entire field of flowers"
.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDYaxabUfkA - The Definition of Faith