We Are Family????

Hey y'all!

I hope y'all had an awesome week! Side note, I have discovered I am related to a good chunk of this ward. It is so funny, people keep addressing me like "hey cousin". This week felt like another crazy week of traveling. Yesterday a Sister drove us to Warner Robbins, which is about 7 hours round trip, and it was so awesome! She has such a beautiful testimony and so much love for the people around her.

So after our long drive together and an appointment we got home around 8. We have been so deprived of quality personal study. We got home and right after each of us prayed I noticed Sister Stacey was just staring at me. I asked her if she was okay and she said she had this feeling we need to go visit a woman we have been teaching. She had trouble with smoking, but we went through a 15 day program to help her overcome her addiction and as of yesterday she has been smoke free for 2 weeks! Anyways, I am not one to deny the Holy Ghost so Sister Stacey and I drove over to her house. When we got there, they were actually celebrating her success with her sister was there too! Her niece is also in town and staying for the summer, so we are excited because she was so excited to see us and said she will come to church!

I came across a scripture this week in 1 Nephi 5:3-4. The charity and patience Lehi had for his wife really struck me.

"And after this manner of language had my mother complained against my father.

And it had come to pass that my father spake unto her, saying: I know that I am a visionary man; for if I had not seen the things of God in a vision I should not have known the goodness of God, but had tarried at Jerusalem, and had perished with my brethren."

I love how understanding he was toward her. What a peaceful place the world could be if we all sought to understand why people feel or act a certain way rather than fall prey to anger toward another. We are in control of our actions and our feelings y'all!

I hope y'all feel & show others God's love throughout the week :)

Sister Morrill