Alright,
so this week was sooo good!!!! I feel like I emailed y'all like 3 days
ago, it's absolutely crazy! But this week was General Conference
weekend, for those who may not know General Conference is 2 days every 6
months when we hear talks from our prophet Thomas S. Monson, and all
his apostles. Really really good, if you're ever interested you can find
all the talks on the church's website.
I highly recommend it! Anyway, there were a few talks that really stood
out to me that I'd like to share a little bit from each. In the
Saturday Afternoon Session I really enjoyed Elder Gary B. Sabin's talk
about being committed and ALL IN. He said "In order to be all in, we
need to stand up on the inside." I really liked this because since being
in Brazil, I've noticed some people who just claim to be all in and don't really show it. I want to be All In, with all my heart, all my mind,
and all my love. I don't know, I just really liked it, it's hard to
explain.
From the Sunday Morning Session, I really loved Elder Ronald A. Rasband's talk on Recognizing the promptings of the spirit and acting immediately. He shared a story that made me think of my mom and her journey to becoming a member. He said he was knocking on doors and had a prompting to follow one more referral and go to just one more house, he introduced them as missionaries and the lady at the door immediately turned them away. As she was closing the door, he put his foot in the way so she couldn't close it. and asked again if there was anyone in the house who was interested in learning more about the gospel. Turns out her 15 or so daughter was the one that the referral was for. <Mom note: One of the missionaries who taught me also stuck his foot in the door so I couldn't close it on them!> I know for a fact that if we follow the first prompting of the spirit that great things will come about it. He said "if you act on the first prompting you will get it right 9/10 times" Pretty high odds to ignore the first prompting of the Spirit. But yeah, general conference was bomb!!
From the Sunday Morning Session, I really loved Elder Ronald A. Rasband's talk on Recognizing the promptings of the spirit and acting immediately. He shared a story that made me think of my mom and her journey to becoming a member. He said he was knocking on doors and had a prompting to follow one more referral and go to just one more house, he introduced them as missionaries and the lady at the door immediately turned them away. As she was closing the door, he put his foot in the way so she couldn't close it. and asked again if there was anyone in the house who was interested in learning more about the gospel. Turns out her 15 or so daughter was the one that the referral was for. <Mom note: One of the missionaries who taught me also stuck his foot in the door so I couldn't close it on them!> I know for a fact that if we follow the first prompting of the spirit that great things will come about it. He said "if you act on the first prompting you will get it right 9/10 times" Pretty high odds to ignore the first prompting of the Spirit. But yeah, general conference was bomb!!
Um Sister Barney and I changed rooms last night and are no longer
roommates with Sister Kearns and Sister Goodrich :( but we are getting
some new Brazilian roommates later today! This should be really good
(hopefully) with understanding the language more!
Something
super funny that happened this week; so this whole week, there's a
sickness going around and unfortunately Sister Barney and Sister Goodrich got it. But Sister Goodrich has melatonin to help her sleep at
night and Sister Barney hadn't been sleeping well because of the sickness
and asked to take some. Well she took it and within about 30 minutes of
her taking it she didn't fall asleep. Instead she got hysterical and it
seemed as if she was high! It was so funny, she was laughing and crying
hysterically. She was saying things that made, literally, no sense and
just random stuff! But needless to say, after that she didn't get
melatonin again!
I miss you all so much and hope everyone had a super awesome week!! Much love!!
Sister Moss
"We must recoginze the Spirit the first time we feel or hear it. It's a still small voice but a familiar voice" - Elder Rasband
The temple this morning was amazing, I love the temple. I have so many pictures with my friends that I cant wait to show you and tell you all about (stories only make sense when you have a face to the name so you'll have to wait). We gained almost 100 new missionaries this week! It's crazy how quick people come and go. General Conference in the CTM was sooooo good. I loved Elder Holland's talk about being apart of the Lord's choir. But the talk that got me most excited about missionary work was Elder Rasband when he shared his story of how he put his foot in the door. It got me so excited and so grateful for wonderful, courageous missionaries willing to throw a body part in the door just to keep talking to someone. I hope I can share my own story about this one day. Love you so much!! Please send videos and pictures of the kiddos, I miss my babies!!
From Sister Moss's letter to Mom
The temple this morning was amazing, I love the temple. I have so many pictures with my friends that I cant wait to show you and tell you all about (stories only make sense when you have a face to the name so you'll have to wait). We gained almost 100 new missionaries this week! It's crazy how quick people come and go. General Conference in the CTM was sooooo good. I loved Elder Holland's talk about being apart of the Lord's choir. But the talk that got me most excited about missionary work was Elder Rasband when he shared his story of how he put his foot in the door. It got me so excited and so grateful for wonderful, courageous missionaries willing to throw a body part in the door just to keep talking to someone. I hope I can share my own story about this one day. Love you so much!! Please send videos and pictures of the kiddos, I miss my babies!!
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