Hey Family and Friends:)
This has been an awesome week!!! We had a Tri-Zone
Conference in Bismarck with Elder Renlund of the Seventy. We received amazing
trainings. He taught us on a number of different things. Something that stood
out to me as a whole though was just how well he knows Jesus Christ. At the
beginning of the conference he told us that one of the purposes and
responsibilities of a Seventy is to be a Special Witness of Jesus Christ. I
noticed throughout the entire conference just that. He is a witness, and He
knows Christ so well. Just being able to see that in him was such a blessing to
my own testimony. It helped me to understand that Christ is Our Friend. He has
a body and He is literally there. I love that He is in our lives everyday and
in everything that we do, we just need to recognize that He really is there!
All I can really say is that Jesus Christ Lives and that He is very much
interested in our lives.
We have also had an amazing week with our investigators.
Mackenzie called us last saturday night and asked if she could come to
church...so we said yes!!!! We gave her one of our skirts and next thing we
knew we were all three sitting in sacrament meeting:) She is so cool!! I Love
her and her faith that she is willing to exercise! During Sacrament Meeting though,
she asked me
"Is this not an important part of church?"
"no, this is important, why?"
"Why is everyone on their phones?"
What a disappointing moment. I don't think I have ever been
more disappointed in the example that the members set. We are examples and how
can we ever teach someone else the importance of our baptismal covenants if we
ourselves don't even care enough to put our silly phones away for one hour at
church to renew them? People are watching all of the time, and we just be
examples of Christ's People not only at church, but always. Thankfully
Mackenzie asked and we were able to help her understand that Sacrament is
important.
Another thing that we learned with Elder Renlund was that we
must strive to have the gospel written on our hearts. We learn in Elder Bednars
Talk "Converted unto the Lord" that having a testimony is not enough
to protect us from the devil anymore. We must become Converted. I know that
this is true! I can only hope that we will listen to our Prophet and Apostles
and know that we need to continue to grow, Satan is getting stronger, But He
Cannot be stronger than God.The time for sitting on the fence is over and
sooner or later we will be knocked off onto one side or another, so instead we
need to choose a side. I would hope that we each choose God's side.
Because He has already won the fight.
We have seen so many blessings recently from striving to be
obedient! It is super hard sometimes to do what we are asked to do, but I know
that there are reasons for all the things that God asks of us and I am super
grateful that He watches out for each of us! I hope you all have a wonderful
week, and look out for those around you who might be in need of the Gospel:)
Then don't hesitate to invite them to the "Greatest party that is going
on, and its the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints!" "No one
goes to a party without and invitation, so invite them and let them know that
the Party is still going on." - Sister Renlund
Love you all:) Keep up the Good work and Testify of what you
love about the Gospel of Jesus Christ:)
Love, Sister A ( Tay )
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Sister Taylor Andrus
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