Happy Mothers Day Pt. 2

Happy Mother's Day!

This is a much deserved holiday, especially for my mom. She is the greatest ever. She's always been there for me and supported me. My mom is one of my heroes and best friends. Love you mom!

This week was pretty good. Probably the biggest miracle was Sokol was put on date! It took three tries. The first, he almost dropped us, the second, he said he wanted to read the whole Book of Mormon, but this time, he said he was ready. Shows you just have to trust in the Lord's timing and miracles will come.

Then Wednesday we had in person MLC. The meeting was great as always but the best part was being able to go to the Temple with the MLC and President and Sister Johansson. It's been a long time since I've been able to go and it was such a great blessing and joy to be able to go. Then after we all went to this super fire burger place. Definitely a time to remember.

The rest of the week was pretty good as well. We had another good lesson with our friend Chin and her family. Hopefully they'll be able to come to church this next week. We also had a couple of lessons with our friend Rob. He's doing great. This next week, we're going to try to have a little BBQ with him. Then we also had a lesson with our other friend Rob. He's ok... We'll see what route we end up taking with him. Then our indigenous friends Khandy and Simon are so fun to teach. They're very humble and love us coming over. They also have two of the cutest Pit bulls. 

Our members are doing so great. We now have like eighty more than before. So on Sunday it was a challenge trying to get to know everyone. But baby steps, we'll get there. Some highlight member visits was the Howells, who are an older couple who are my very favorite. Then of course Charlie who's been helping us teach his neighbor Jodie. We've been doing Book of Mormon reads with him and are now working with him on coming to church. Then we just saw some less active members and our new members. Pretty good visits for the week.

A spiritual thought this week comes from the talk, The Cloven Tongues of Fire. The quote is, "Too many of us are like those whom the Lord said “[came] with a broken heart and a contrite spirit, … [and] at the time of their conversion, were baptized with fire and with the Holy Ghost, and they knew it not." What a gift the comforter is, and so overlooked it can be. We literally have a member of the Godhead promised to us to be our constant companion to be with us as long as we live worthy. This isn't just to help us when we read the scriptures or pray, it gives us help and guidance for all aspects of our life. School, work, families, literally all things. That is such a gift and needs to be utilized more often.

As always, I love you all! Thank you for everything and all you do. Let me know if there's anything I can do for y'all. Have a good Mothers Day. Talk to you next week.

Temple

Dinner after temple

Sokol on date

Exchange with Elder Shum

More temple

Blue tree