Happy late Thanksgiving everyone! I am grateful for all my wonderful friends, family, and others that support me as a missionary! I hope you all had some time to reflect on your blessings this week. I know I did! So here's my week of blessings:
Things to know:
-Patrick came to church again, he is the COOLEST and has such a strong desire to learn more. Literally made a church account for the gospel library app!
-We made some new friends this week, but I don't really have any updates on anyone else we are teaching yet!
-Went on exchanges with Cepta Grimes and it was the BEST time ever, she is such a great example. And we laughed a ton.
-We had a fun Thanksgiving with some members who brought their friend that isn't a member to dinner, and it was awesome!
-Went to the kookiest member dinner ever hahah and got to be a pirate and have a parrot on my shoulder.
Stories of the week:
-Hope nobody panicked at the title too much, I have to do a little clickbait sometimes because then maybe more of ya'll will read my emails hahaha. We didn't go to a bar, a member in the stake just owns a pool house and rented it out on Thanksgiving for just us missionaries. So we got to go play pool and I may or may not have won a couple of rounds.
-While on exchanges with Cepta Grimes, we drove all the way out to CDA (where here area as an STL is) and realized her companion forgot to give us the sim so neither of us had service to text anyone lol. We go to the church to get wifi and tell the sisters to come meet us halfway at the church in Post Falls. We get there and wait FOREVER and the church there had no wifi so we can't call the sisters and see where they are. We say a prayer and ask for help and find out why the sisters are taking so long, and no sooner than like 2 minutes later I realized I had taken the car keys with me. We laughed ALL the way back to Spokane Valley to give them the keys and trade for the sim. I was so embarrassed, but decided the only thing I could do was laugh. Aha I love the power of prayer, who knows how much longer we would have waited before I figured it out lol
Spiritual Thought:
This week I read a scripture that I really liked and I wanted to share it with ya'll:
Alma 29:3 - "For I ought to be content with the things which the Lord hath allotted unto me"
This really struck me because lately I've been getting caught up in all of the ways that I don't measure up. It reminded me that it is important to remember all of our talents and gifts we have been given, and to be happy with what we have been blessed with. When we recognize this it will motivate us to do better and focus on improving/increasing our abilities instead of becoming discouraged at all our faults.
I invite you to think about your gifts and how you can use them to bless others this week. I can promise you will see God's hand as you serve others with your gifts.
God is good, I love you all! Have a great week!
Cepta Grimes
Costa Vida CR
Happy Thanksgiving
Parrot
Pool house
Three Amigos
