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Ok i gave in and made a google photos album. Ill still send pictures in my emails but join the album for more fire flics of the great CVM
The bikes are close to taking lives. Theyre out for blood. There are spikes on my pedals and they hit my ankle pretty much almost EVERYTIME! Ive got a mix of old and fresh scratches and scars but the other day it drew blood!! And a lot of it. Yaaayyyy
Friday was Zone conference! All the missionaries in Simi got together with all the missionaries in Thousand Oaks and Newbury Park! It was so fun to see everyone! Some of my favorite take aways were
"Have you ever considered that you may be the light someone else needs? What do you need to do to keep that light shining?"
"If you live close to God and His infinite grace, you won't have to tell, it will show in your face."
"We can all be the answer to someone else's prayer"
Sunday we celebrated Hermana Bagleys birthday and the members threw her a surprise party! And hermana bagley hates surprises, It was so cute though, we came to the church and saw everyone through the windows hanging out in the hall so we waved to them and they immediately ran into a room to hide. Very sneaky. It was so funny. I think hermana bagley got like 30 bottles of diet coke cause its her favorite drink and its what everyone got her
Hermana Aparicio is making sure we do not starve and always getting people to feed us! We made arepas and empanadas with Hermana Villafuerte and woooooooo they were fantastic! We are not worried about starving any time soon but reach out to the missionaries in your area and feed them on behalf of me.
Marcos gets baptized tomorrow! he said when he first came to church he was a bit embarrassed cause he didnt have a white shirt or tie to wear so hermana bagley and i bought him a white shirt and tie and he was so touched! Very tender moment
Pensamiento espiritual
Everyone go listen to "Fourth Floor, Last Door." By Dieter F Uchtdorf right now
"Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.
While this makes sense to believing people, it is often confusing to nonbelievers. They shake their heads and ask, “How can anyone be certain of what they cannot see?” To them, this is evidence of the irrationality of religion. What they fail to understand is that there are more ways to see than with our eyes, more ways to feel than with our hands, more ways to hear than with our ears.
It’s something like the experience of a young girl who was walking with her grandmother. The song of the birds was glorious to the little girl, and she pointed out every sound to her grandmother. “Do you hear that?” the little girl asked again and again.
But her grandmother was hard of hearing and could not make out the sounds. Finally, the grandmother knelt down and said, “I’m sorry, dear. Grandma doesn’t hear so well.” Exasperated, the little girl took her grandmother’s face in her hands, looked intently into her eyes, and said, “Grandma, listen harder!”
There are lessons in this story for both the nonbeliever and the believer. Just because we can’t hear something doesn’t mean there is nothing to hear. Two people can listen to the same message or read the same scripture, and one might feel the witness of the Spirit while the other doesn’t.
Perhaps better advice—for anyone who wants to increase faith—is to listen differently. The Apostle Paul encourages us to seek the voice that speaks to our spirit, not just to our ears.
The scriptures teach us that through faith the worlds were framed, waters were parted, dead were raised, and rivers and mountains were moved from their course.
Yet some might ask, “If faith is so powerful, why can’t I receive an answer to a heartfelt prayer? I don’t need a sea to part or a mountain to move. I just need my illness to go away or my parents to forgive each other or an eternal companion to appear on my doorstep with a bouquet of flowers in one hand and an engagement ring in the other. Why can’t my faith accomplish that?”
Faith is powerful, and often it does result in miracles. But no matter how much faith we have, there are two things faith cannot do. For one, it cannot violate another person’s agency.
Faith means that we trust not only in God’s wisdom but that we trust also in His love. It means trusting that God loves us perfectly, that everything He does—every blessing He gives and every blessing He, for a time, withholds—is for our eternal happiness.
With this kind of faith, though we may not understand why certain things happen or why certain prayers go unanswered, we can know that in the end everything will make sense. “All things [will] work together for good to them that love God.” All will be made right. All will be well."
Quotes
"Its hard to get in shape physically if you only workout on sundays"
"We dont go to church because we are perfect.
We go because we make mistakes.
We go because we need to be uplifted.
We go to show that we are trying"
"God is a god of commas not periods."
L8er sk8ers
Hermana Buhrley
Pics
Zone conference
Rapunzel is the best princess
Shenanigans in the church
Branch Choir practice
Flowers
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