Hello one and all!
LA LOVE:
Surely many of you saw my Facebook post regarding my four-year-long desire to be a missionary finally being realized. Well, that post was so well-received by so many in (and out of) the CLAM that Sister Malcom asked if she could print it and post it on the mission office bulletin board for a week or two! I felt so honored.
EVENTS OF THE WEEK:
On p-day we had a super fun waffle party with all of the sisters! I love them and it was wonderful to be with them all.
This week at district council we learned more about how to exercise faith in the mission! It was also our zone interview which is always great. I love my president and am so grateful Heavenly Father put him in my life. We also got to talk with our sister training leaders and Sister Cordon about our area. It was wonderful. The Cordons have done so much for us missionaries that I could go on forever, but I will spare you of that--at least for now.
Daniel, a boy in the ward, was baptized this week, and Sophia and her friend Khiara got to come! It was an amazing experience. I love the way the Spirit of God is so present at a baptism--there is no denying that something special is happening. What a miracle that we have been gifted Heavenly Father's priesthood power. Sophia and Khiara both loved the Spirit felt at the baptism that day. Directly after, Sophia had her baptismal interview. We love her! She of course did great. Elder Montgomery was impressed by how much she knew when there were no other Church members in her family. He said, as we all do, that she is very prepared.
FRIENDS:
We met with the B. fam! We were very honest with Mr. B and told him that we kept feeling like we needed to come see their family even though he has not expressed a desire for organized religion. He believes in God though and is happy to have us, so we are going to keep seeing them to figure out the reason behind this spiritual impression.
We studied Come, Follow Me with John and Nataly again this week! They are wonderful and it is great to hear their spiritual insights.
Sophia is doing wonderful of course. She loved learning about the laws of tithing and fasting this week and the way the money is used in the Church. She did great on her baptismal interview, and we got to take her to the visitors' center with Sister Valenzuela, which she loved so much! She came to stake conference and got to meet President and Hermana. Everyone that meets Sophia loves her. She is a light in the world.
We met with Tatiana and her daughter Janet! We got to tell them our missionary purpose and it was beautiful to see them feel the Spirit and take joy in what we do as missionaries. We looked at a book about Tatiana's life story and she is incredible!
We met with Fay! Fay found our church years ago and felt that it was a peaceful and safe place and has been eager to learn more about it. We talked a lot about the power of the Holy Ghost that Fay always felt when she went to our church. We told her about the Book of Mormon and read Moroni 10 with her. When we asked her to pray to know it was true, she said she absolutely would, but she already knows that everything we say is true. She is incredible!
As you can see, the people of Palos Verdes are coming unto Christ. To close, I'd like to share a favorite beautiful invitation extended by Moroni in Moroni 10:32:
"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."
I beg of you all, come unto Christ. That is the way to the happiness you have been looking for. It never fails no matter what your life is like, because in the California Los Angeles Mission I have seen Him work in the lives of so many different people. I know He will work for you.
Thanks and much love!
--Sister Day
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