3-23-2015
What a great week!!! I
feel like I’m running a race with no finish line! And I love it! I have learned
and grown so much in the short time I have been a missionary. I can’t even
believe it! This week has been one of growth and learning, the Lord stretches
us to make us more flexible during hard times :)
It's funny to me how
much the world has changed from when I was a child to right now, this is a time
and age of change, if you think about it, no other generation has gone through
so much change in such a short amount of time. I mean look at my parent’s
generation (I love you mom and dad) when they were growing up they didn’t even
have a TV, or cell phones, or any of this crazy stuff, everything was simple.
And now in this era, in the space of just 20-30 years we have totally changed
our way of life, and with that we have lost some of the most important things.
Like the importance of family, and God, trust, independence. The world is a
crazy place. And that’s why I am so thankful that my parents taught me to live
in the world but not of the world. And to give of all we had to those who are
less fortunate, do secret acts of kindness and love one another. I am so
eternally grateful for all the amazing lessons I was taught to help me become
who I am today and to be able to live in this world but not be effected by all
of the horrible things going on. The world is going to get a lot worse before
it gets better. So strengthen your faith, learn of the eternal things. Because
we will only be able to take our experiences, our knowledge and our
relationships with us after this life. The adversary has done an amazing job trying
to convince that what "really matters" in life is; our job, our car,
our money, our clothes. What's going to happen if someone takes all of that
away? What will we have to show for ourselves? Those are material things. We
need to focus on the eternal things in life! That is what is “Most Important”.
Okay I will get off my
soap box now. But I have such a testimony that there is so much more to life,
if we are willing to put in the work to find it!
This week I had the
"blessing" of speaking in church. (I’m kidding, yes it really was a
blessing, and I learned so much) I spoke on Christ and His suffering. It was
amazing to study that more.
We helped 3 of our investigators
move out this week! Talk about sad! Antionette moved to Texas, we helped her
pack everything up and get it all moved out! Then we helped Kathy and her
family move out of their house (they were new investigators that were friends
of the Downer's in our ward). WE did tons of service this week, it was really
fun. We met a guy on the street named Joe who was pulling weeds and we stopped
and helped him for an hour, and he said he would love to come to church with
us. He was so nice. That same day we went and helped Wendi clean, because of
all her health she can’t really do much on her own. So we were able to make a
good dent with that!
We had a really cool experience
on Tuesday night while we were headed to go visit a less active in our ward. We
were walking down the sidewalk at about 8pm, so it was dark, and we saw this
guy working on his can in his driveway. So we went up to him and introduced
ourselves. His name is Joe (not to be confused with the other Joe we met
pulling weeds) To be completely honest, I’m not sure what happened next, but
the next thing I knew we were talking about trails and all the hard things he
went through in life, and then we found out he had a friend and her daughter
living in his house who are inactive members of the church. He took them in
because they had nowhere else to go. The daughter has struggled with drugs, and
he paid for her to go through rehab. He said he wants us to come by and visit
lots, it would be really good for everyone, he's not a member of the church, but
he really wants us to come and help the girls. And he said that he would love
to listen and learn too. We talked with him and the daughter Brittaney, for a
good hour or so.
I got to go to the
Temple on Saturday!!!! One of the cute old couples in our ward got sealed in
the temple this weekend, and we got special permission to go! It was such a
blessing! I love the temple to much!
Our ward put on a
really cool even for Easter. It was called "the Last Supper Fireside"
It was so cool!!!! It was all about the Jewish beliefs, and the symbolism of
the last supper in the bible. They made the food and everything, it was a
really amazing experience. And then they took it one step further, and
explained how the book of Mormon fills in all the rest of what the Jewish faith
didn’t have the answers to. It was a really spiritual experience!
I love the gospel! I
don’t know where I would be without it! Strengthen your faith, and trust in
God! He knows what you need, let him be your strength and your guide! Remember...do
you want to choose that path that is best for you, or the path that you think
is best?
I love you all! And I
testify that the fullness of the gospel has been restored on earth once more,
it is the same church that Christ established during his ministry!
I love you!
Love, Sister Loveless
These pics are from our District Meeting last month. "GOT LIGHT"
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