I hope y'all enjoyed the weekend! Someone told us its "Sister Super Bowl Sunday", but hey we live in a world where we can make up our own holidays and choose whether or not we want to participate! However God's work doesn't stop, even for football.
This week we had our Zone Conference on Tuesday in Macon and we had the privilege to hear from Elder Claudio Costa on Saturday! Elder Costa is a convert of 41 years and his conversion story seriously inspired me. He didn't want missionaries to teach him, but after he overheard Sister teaching someone else in his home he went in his room and took the challenge they had left with the person they had taught. He told us after reading, pondering, and praying about each individual paragraph in the Joseph Smith history that he knew without a shadow of a doubt that he was a prophet called of God. If I remember correctly he said it took him 14 hours. He went on to talk about how grateful he was for the gospel and how blessed he felt. He still faces challenges, as we all do, but in those 41 years there has not been a single day where he did not feel happy. He knows God's plan for us :)
This week most of our appointments fell through and one of the people we were teaching moved to Atlanta with her mom. But hey, can't have a rainbow without a little rain! This weekend we were able to fast with a woman for a Sunday she can have off of work, so she can be baptized and confirmed. We taught the girl who's on date for the 18th about the importance of daily repentance and used a tool that one of the senior couples shared during Zone Conference this week.
1. Hope
2. Remember
3. Act
Faith is belief put into action! Faith without works is dead, even Satan believed in Heavenly Father (actually he had a sure and perfect knowledge of him), but Jesus Christ was willing to act on His faith and I know I have been blessed because of Him. We can hope for a better tomorrow, because we remember yesterday, and through Christ we can find the strength to overcome all things!
At the end of our Zone Conference, Elder Costa emphasized the importance of a spiritual lesson rather than a social lesson. I really loved that because we are here to build the Kingdom of God, rather than to preach what is comfortable. The Gospel of Jesus Christ afflicts the comfortable, and comforts the afflicted! I absolutely love it from either end, because this life is all about progression.
I really appreciate all the support I receive from y'all, I feel so lucky to have such wonderful friends and family! Y'all are a blessing to me and I love ya! Have a blessed week,
Sister Morrill
Alma 5
"15 Do ye exercise faith in the redemption of him who created you? Do you look forward with an eye of faith, and view this mortal body raised in immortality, and this corruption raised in incorruption, to stand before God to be judged according to the deeds which have been done in the mortal body?
16 I say unto you, can you imagine to yourselves that ye hear the voice of the Lord, saying unto you, in that day: Come unto me ye blessed, for behold, your works have been the works of righteousness upon the face of the earth?"
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