10/21/15
"It's good to talk about God's love and how much he loves you because he does. That's important. But remember that as much as God loves you, Satan hates you. I mean really hates you. He really hates your guts. I know it's weird to have someone testify about Satan's hate, but... Just tell Satan, Not Today Satan, and tell Jesus, Yes Today Jesus!" -Our lovely Elder Prestwich during Devotional Discussion/Testimony Mtg. hahahahah I love these Elders so much!!!
Just to reiterate how much I love my Elders here... Did I ever tell you about my dear friend Elder Hall? I believe I brought up his spider story, but oh no... this elder is a walking comedy. I love him so much! He also is fluent in ASL sidenote. :D So anyway... There's this Elder, Elder Nielson who sleep walks all the time. And what he does when he sleepwalks is he goes around banging on people's doors. So everyone has gotten use to ignoring the knocks. Well one night, Elder Hall was sleep walking. And apparently he made it all the way outside the building. So at this point he was walking around outside for a couple hours just sleepwalking. But here's the kicker... He was wandering around outside in only HIS GARMENTS!! hahahahaha Dead asleep and wandering around in his underwear! He woke up under a tree hours later no idea how he got there. hahahahaha And he didn't have his key card to get back in. So he had to wander around more banging on peoples windows trying to get someone to let him in. And of course everyone has gotten use to ignoring the knocking because of Elder Nielson... He tried everyone in our zone.... hahahahaha Finally a security guard found him. He thought it was the funniest thing in the whole world and almost couldn't let him in because he was laughing so hard. hahahaha Elder Hall... oh gosh.. :D
So basically what happened this week is we got four new hermanas in our zone, heard Elder Kopischke from the Seventy speak to us, had millions of leadership meetings, became the oldest district in our zone and me and my companion became SISTER TRAINING LEADERS! Yeah basically you're talking to royalty. hahahaha kidding. But basically it means, I'm a therapist and a friend. We get more sisters today!!! And we get to introduce them and pretty much affect their whole MTC stay. Pressures on!! Nah they'll be too shell shocked to even remember what we say. ;) But the other day I ended up walking around in the rain in my pajamas because one of the girls needed to talk, which was awesome! But I was stumbling around after curfew like a homeless person with the nametag of God on them.
This week has been the BEST! I love everything here, and I only have one more P-day and I don't want to leave! I mean I so do, but I don't want to leave these people. They've literally become my awkward non-hugging handshaking family! hahaha I feel the Savior's love in everything I do. We sang that song in Choir last night. "I feel my Savior's love, in all the world around me."
My ponderizing Scripture is Enos 12
12 And it came to pass that after I had prayed and labored with all diligence, the Lord said unto me: I will grant unto thee according to thy desires, because of thy faith.
Enos put his whole self into the Lord. His whole soul, his whole faith, everything. He knew that although he was tormented with his sins and the things he had done that there was still hope for him. Hope that came through the Savior Jesus Christ. If you've done something wrong, talk to Heavenly Father. Christ is waiting with outstretched arms just ready to catch you when you've decided you can't go any farther. He'll carry you. I know he will. He's carried me before. It times when I thought there was no hope to get out of the dark, no point to move forward because God wouldn't forgive me, Christ carried me and my sins to the Lord. I've never felt more free or my loved. So if any of you are struggling to stand and to walk and make it through the day, don't. Just fall to your knees and pray because that's why prayer is there, so we can talk to our Heavenly Father. But after that, we have to get to our feet and go to work, because change doesn't happen easy. Enos prayed and labored with all diligence. You've got this. I love you all so much!!! And I want to say THANKS for all the letters and packages!! They brighten my day sooooo much!!!
LOVE you all!
Le amo. <3
Hermana Bower ;)
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