Hello everyone!! :)
This week was a wonderful week!! I was able to receive A LOT of answers to my prayers that I have been praying for FOREVER. So God is really good and I am super happy!!!
Tuesday was fun!! We are helping the best people in the world build a shed!! David and Bobby :) they are awesome!!! They are investigating the church and David seems to be coming along. We just need his wife Bobby to come too!! That was awesome!
On Tuesday we also went to a self-defense class that the Relief Society had! That was awesome! I learned some basic things that will help me escape all the bad guys!! We practiced and it was fun because I felt like I was in an improv show. It was terrifying and hilarious!! Yay!!
We are having a family history class on Saturday at the public library and we are inviting everyone we see. It's awesome because everyone we meet and invite have been SUPER excited to find their families!! Yay for family history!!! Yay for the spirit of Elijah!! So we should have a good turnout. :)
Also, we had an amazing zone conference this week!!! It answered alllll of my questions!! Then the sad realization hits that that was my last zone conference. Words cannot even describe how ... Sobering that was for me. But THAT’S OKAY!!! I was able to bear a "departing missionary testimony" which was... Crazy. It made me realize how truly I love my mission. Like, I thought I had an understanding of how much my mission has meant to me... Until I had to sit on that stand and give my testimony. It was the last place I wanted to be! But THAT’S STILL OKAY, I’LL BE OKAY. I just never want to go home. There. I said it. Florida somehow, somewhere stole my heart. I love the people here so much!!!
Anywho, emotional soap opera over.
This week was a wonderful week!! I was able to receive A LOT of answers to my prayers that I have been praying for FOREVER. So God is really good and I am super happy!!!
Tuesday was fun!! We are helping the best people in the world build a shed!! David and Bobby :) they are awesome!!! They are investigating the church and David seems to be coming along. We just need his wife Bobby to come too!! That was awesome!
On Tuesday we also went to a self-defense class that the Relief Society had! That was awesome! I learned some basic things that will help me escape all the bad guys!! We practiced and it was fun because I felt like I was in an improv show. It was terrifying and hilarious!! Yay!!
We are having a family history class on Saturday at the public library and we are inviting everyone we see. It's awesome because everyone we meet and invite have been SUPER excited to find their families!! Yay for family history!!! Yay for the spirit of Elijah!! So we should have a good turnout. :)
Also, we had an amazing zone conference this week!!! It answered alllll of my questions!! Then the sad realization hits that that was my last zone conference. Words cannot even describe how ... Sobering that was for me. But THAT’S OKAY!!! I was able to bear a "departing missionary testimony" which was... Crazy. It made me realize how truly I love my mission. Like, I thought I had an understanding of how much my mission has meant to me... Until I had to sit on that stand and give my testimony. It was the last place I wanted to be! But THAT’S STILL OKAY, I’LL BE OKAY. I just never want to go home. There. I said it. Florida somehow, somewhere stole my heart. I love the people here so much!!!
Anywho, emotional soap opera over.
I met a lot of interesting people this week!! We are working with talking
with everyone about the gospel!! That's been fun and it's placed us in a lot of
super awkward situations! Which is the best!!!?? We knocked on a lot of car
doors and pulled off to the side of the road a lot of times and I just love…
LOOOOOVE being a missionary. I love being able to share the message of the restoration with these people. I
love teaching them restored truths like God still loves us!!! Evidence of that
love is the Book of Mormon!! God has called a prophet in these times!! Jesus Christ’s
church has been restored to the earth! This calling is truly the greatest. I
get to help Heavenly Fathers children… My brothers and sisters return back home to him. I love it. I
eat, drink, and breathe being His missionary. During zone conference a comment
that was made was "the most important moment in their life up to that
point is when you see them" holy cow. Let that sink in for a bit. Giving
them a chance to learn about the restored gospel is priceless. Because they are
priceless!! BAH!!! I love being a missionary!!!!
Okay, missionary love soap opera over :)
I learned the neatest thing this week via my scriptures!!! I was studying in the Book of Mormon in Moroni chapter 10 where it says:
32 Yea, come unto Christ, and be perfected in him, and deny yourselves of all ungodliness; and if ye shall deny yourselves of all ungodliness, and love God with all your might, mind and strength, then is his grace sufficient for you, that by his grace ye may be perfect in Christ; and if by the grace of God ye are perfect in Christ, ye can in nowise deny the power of God.
33 And again, if ye by the grace of God are perfect in Christ, and deny not his power, then are ye sanctified in Christ by the grace of God, through the shedding of the blood of Christ, which is in the covenant of the Father unto the remission of your sins, that ye become holy, without spot.
So. I have always been afraid of the word clean. And pure. And "holy, without spot" because I never believed that I could be that. I have so many weaknesses and I make mistakes and fall short every single day. But I read this scripture and all the sudden I understood.. Like.. Everything! I don't need to be afraid of the word clean because I can be clean through Jesus Christ. I can be pure. By following the gospel of Jesus Christ ... We become perfected and sanctified. By having faith in Jesus Christ, repenting daily, keeping covenants and taking the sacrament every week we are blessed with the companionship of the Holy Ghost which purifies us. SO NEAT!! I love the gospel so much. I have learned that that (living the gospel of Jesus Christ) is where true happiness comes from. We can be happy from circumstance or the Things we have to how many friends we have to how much we weigh or if we win the lottery or how beautiful the weather is!! But true, lasting, inner happiness and peace comes from living the gospel. That is what I have experienced this week. True happiness!! I have never felt so joyful in my life!! I don't know why it took me 20 years to figure it out.. But I’m so thankful that Heavenly Father let me. So I can have the rest of my life to work towards returning home to Him. :)
Yay for the gospel!!!!! Yay for change! Yay for new starts, clean slates, and big smiles! YES! That's all I have time for folks!!
I love y’all so much. Thank you for all your prayers and letters and nice thoughts and mental hugs and what not. Y’all are the best. Thanks for sticking with me!!
Love, love, love, Sister Chamberlain :)
Okay, missionary love soap opera over :)
I learned the neatest thing this week via my scriptures!!! I was studying in the Book of Mormon in Moroni chapter 10 where it says:
32 Yea, come unto Christ, and be perfected in him, and deny yourselves of all ungodliness; and if ye shall deny yourselves of all ungodliness, and love God with all your might, mind and strength, then is his grace sufficient for you, that by his grace ye may be perfect in Christ; and if by the grace of God ye are perfect in Christ, ye can in nowise deny the power of God.
33 And again, if ye by the grace of God are perfect in Christ, and deny not his power, then are ye sanctified in Christ by the grace of God, through the shedding of the blood of Christ, which is in the covenant of the Father unto the remission of your sins, that ye become holy, without spot.
So. I have always been afraid of the word clean. And pure. And "holy, without spot" because I never believed that I could be that. I have so many weaknesses and I make mistakes and fall short every single day. But I read this scripture and all the sudden I understood.. Like.. Everything! I don't need to be afraid of the word clean because I can be clean through Jesus Christ. I can be pure. By following the gospel of Jesus Christ ... We become perfected and sanctified. By having faith in Jesus Christ, repenting daily, keeping covenants and taking the sacrament every week we are blessed with the companionship of the Holy Ghost which purifies us. SO NEAT!! I love the gospel so much. I have learned that that (living the gospel of Jesus Christ) is where true happiness comes from. We can be happy from circumstance or the Things we have to how many friends we have to how much we weigh or if we win the lottery or how beautiful the weather is!! But true, lasting, inner happiness and peace comes from living the gospel. That is what I have experienced this week. True happiness!! I have never felt so joyful in my life!! I don't know why it took me 20 years to figure it out.. But I’m so thankful that Heavenly Father let me. So I can have the rest of my life to work towards returning home to Him. :)
Yay for the gospel!!!!! Yay for change! Yay for new starts, clean slates, and big smiles! YES! That's all I have time for folks!!
I love y’all so much. Thank you for all your prayers and letters and nice thoughts and mental hugs and what not. Y’all are the best. Thanks for sticking with me!!
Love, love, love, Sister Chamberlain :)
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