Hello friends and family!!!
This week was full of miracles! (As all weeks are) I have gained loads of relationships in the ward! My companion and I are actually in the lake district as I am speaking! The members are the Collins`.
Also, we have this friend named Ray. We met him around a week ago in town. He is so nice!!! He actually stopped us to tell us what a great job we are doing. Our first lesson with him HE set the expectations with us by saying that when he learns that our church is true we can expect him to be baptized. Not only that but he said that when he says he does something he will do it! Also he has a feeling this is the right church😃 He is SO nice as well.
Yesterday, Sister Washburn and I said a talk in church. I talked on baptism and she talked on the Holy Ghost. Guess what the speakers before us talked on..... faith in Jesus Christ and repentance. They took a page from Preach my Gospel. I also sang in a women's choir for a musical number (shout out to Mother!).
I love this gospel so much. We are so lucky to have the chance to renew our baptismal covenants every Sunday. I invite each of you to read Mosiah 5:7-8 and think on if we are truly born of Christ. We should always remember his sacrifice for us and have his name written in our hearts.
Love you all!
Sister Sever
This week was full of miracles! (As all weeks are) I have gained loads of relationships in the ward! My companion and I are actually in the lake district as I am speaking! The members are the Collins`.
Also, we have this friend named Ray. We met him around a week ago in town. He is so nice!!! He actually stopped us to tell us what a great job we are doing. Our first lesson with him HE set the expectations with us by saying that when he learns that our church is true we can expect him to be baptized. Not only that but he said that when he says he does something he will do it! Also he has a feeling this is the right church😃 He is SO nice as well.
Yesterday, Sister Washburn and I said a talk in church. I talked on baptism and she talked on the Holy Ghost. Guess what the speakers before us talked on..... faith in Jesus Christ and repentance. They took a page from Preach my Gospel. I also sang in a women's choir for a musical number (shout out to Mother!).
I love this gospel so much. We are so lucky to have the chance to renew our baptismal covenants every Sunday. I invite each of you to read Mosiah 5:7-8 and think on if we are truly born of Christ. We should always remember his sacrifice for us and have his name written in our hearts.
Love you all!
Sister Sever
Mosiah 5:7-8
7 And now, because of the covenant which ye have made ye shall be called the children of Christ, his sons, and his daughters; for behold, this day he hath spiritually begotten you; for ye say that your hearts are changed through faith on his name; therefore, ye are born of him and have become his sons and his daughters.
8 And under this head ye are made free, and there is no other head whereby ye can be made free. There is no other name given whereby salvation cometh; therefore, I would that ye should take upon you the name of Christ, all you that have entered into the covenant with God that ye should be obedient unto the end of your lives.
(mom note!!!)...as a bonus to this week's letter to everyone, I will also share a portion of her email to me personally. I asked her specifically about whether or not she has had opportunities to share her musical talents, what a typical day looks like for her as a missionary, and her favorite/disliked foods thus far. Here is her reply:
"I have many opportunities to share my talents. The ward sometimes can be lacking in those areas. I had to play the piano a few times in Rossendale, but this ward is HUGE on music. So much talent you would love it. I sang this Sunday and I'm singing next Sunday as well.
Well I wake up at 6:30 and usually run for exercise. We plan out our day for 30 minutes and prepare for an hour and a half. Then we have personal study for an hour and have to be out of the house by 10:30. The rest of the day is very unpredictable. We try not to tract (knocking door to door) because it isn't very effective. We sometimes do something called a street display at town centre where we have a table and a poster of Jesus Christ and some book of Mormons in different languages. Since lancaster is a university town there are many people from different countries. It is very diverse. We call by returning members and friends. As to how people respond... it depends on the weather. You may think I am joking but I am completely serious!!! The sunny days are the best days. Depends on the accents. Liverpool.... it sounds like German. Not gonna lie. Other accents in comparison are not that bad.
Favourite foods!!! The Indian food is TO DIE FOR!!! I love samosas. I also love how they cover Sunday roasts in gravy. Yorkshire puddings are lovely. Black pudding is okay but I would rather eat stuffing. I hate the texture. I also hate tripe... not good. Don't try it. It's gross. Also the sausages here are... not very good. But I can eat them. Other than that not too much I don't like."
(pictures 1 & 2 are of the church where John Taylor, the 3rd president of the church, was baptized. The rest are misc. ones of my companion or of the Lake District)
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 this definition of faith bless you in your 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