Gratitude

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Hello Everyone!

 

This week was rough at the beginning, but had a wonderful ending. The beginning of this week was difficult because one of our investigators came across anti Mormon literature. This was hard to listen to because everything that our investigator was talking about and the things that were making her the most upset were things that are not true. I love what God promises us about situations like this. Sometimes it is hard to truly know what is true. He promises us that if we come to him, the source, and ask Him what is true having faith, he will reveal it to us. If we ask Heavenly Father with an open heart and an opened mind what the truth is, He will let us know.

On the bright side, we had an investigator send us a text before church on Sunday and asked us if he could join the Sunday service. Of course we told him he could. After sacrament, he told us that he had been reading in The Book of Mormon and that he has a lot of questions and wants to learn more about Joseph Smith.

For my little thought today, I would like to use a talk written by Richard G Scott, a beloved apostle who passed away this past week. In his talk he said, "make the excercise of faith your first priority.”  He talks about challenges and how our faith can take a role in that. 

Elder Scott also said, "We were taught in the premortal world that our purpose in coming here is to be tested, tried and stretched. We knew we would face the evils of the adversary. Sometimes we may feel more aware of the negative things of mortality than we are of the positive. The prophet Lehi taught, “for it must needs be, that there is an opposition in all things.”  Despite all of the negative challenges we have in life, we must take time to actively excercise our faith. Such exercise invites the positive, faith-filled power of the Atonement of Jesus Christ into our lives."

Some of you may have noticed that the more trials we go through, the more we understand what happiness and peace means. When we put our faith in what we know to be true and try our best to be our best, we will experience more joy and understanding even in times of hard trial. Life can get hard, but I am grateful for my Savior and this knowledge of the Atonement. I am able to look at things with a more eternal perspective.

I love you all and hope that you have a lovely week!

Sister Reed