another week

Well, this week has actually been a little boring. but I am running

short on time, so here is a list of adventures from my week! Please

Enjoy :)

- This week we went on exchanges Tuesday and Wednesday. Sister Moberg

came here, and we got to have a lot of fun. We taught a lot of our

investigators, and committed David to be baptized on September 6!

- We went to dinner at this house where the family had a pet bird that

was not kept in a cage. They let it just walk around their house. They

also had a teacup yorkie that they pulled all of its teeth. So, that

was weird. They were a lot of fun though :)

-Travis invited his family to start taking the missionary lessons, so

we are now teaching him and their are family ward sisters working with

his parents.

- We picked up a new investigator-- Alex. He is friends with a guy in

the ward and has come to church several times already. He is super

awesome and practically taught us the Restoration this week!

-Also, I got glasses....

- This week for church we had a regional YSA conference. There were

over 800 young singles in our building. The service was so awesome!

They had the Sacrament still which was pretty interesting. There were

5 tables to prepare and pass! It was crazy. President and Sister Van

Cott were our speakers. They are awesome! I love them so much! I think

the only thing stopping President Van Cott from being called as a

general authority is that he cries every time he speaks.

- After church they opened up the temple grounds for us to go walk

around. We got to take all of our investigators that havent been yet

and explain all of the cool things about this temple and some of the

symbolism on the outside and such! It was wonderful!

Hmm. that is all I can think of that I would like to share from the

week. Just know, that I truly do have a testimony of this Gospel. I

know that the work I am doing is not mine, It is my Heavenly Fathers.

Missionary work is just an opportunity for us to be able to enjoy

blessings. Heavenly Father could accomplish all of this without us. He

gives us the privilege to participate. Rise up to the callings that

you hold and remember how much the Lord loves you.

In 2 Nephi 11:16-17 An angel asks Nephi if he knows the condescension

of God. In other words, Does he know how God shows Himself to us? Do

we?  The scripture continues by Nephi answering and saying that He

knows God loves His children, but he does not know the meaning of all

things. This is us. If we know God loves us, we dont have to know the

meaning of all things. However, As the angel continues, we know that

God shows His love to us by sending our Savior here to allow us to

learn and grow and progress. Jesus Christ and the mercy of the

Atonement are how God shows Himself to us. Christ is how He shows His

love for us. We are all able to enter in to the straight and narrow

gait of baptism and continue on the path to eternal life.  To close, a

quote from Bruce R. McConkie that President shared with us this week:

"We don't need to get a complex or get a feeling that you have to be

perfect to be saved.You don't. There's only been one perfect person,

and that's the Lord Jesus, but in order to be saved in the Kingdom of

God and in order to pass the test of mortality,what you have to do is

get on the straight and narrow path – thus charting a course leading

to eternal life – and then, being on that path, pass out of this life

in full fellowship. I'm not saying that you don't have to keep the

commandments.I'm saying you don't have to be perfect to be saved. If

you did, no one would be saved. The way it operates is this: You get

on the path that's named the "straight and narrow." You do it by

entering the gate of repentance and baptism. The straight and narrow

path leads from the gate of repentance and baptism, a very great

distance, to a reward that's called eternal life. If you're on that

path and pressing forward, and you die, you'll never get off the path.

There is no such thing as falling off the straight and narrow path in

the life to come, and the reason is that this life is the time that is

given to men to prepare for eternity. Now is the time and the day of

your salvation, so if you're working zealously in this life – though

you haven't fully overcome the world and you haven't done all you

hoped you might do – you're still going to be saved. You don't have to

do what Jacob said, "Go beyond the mark." You don't have to live a

life that's truer than true. You don't have to have an excessive zeal

that becomes fanatical and becomes unbalancing. What you have to do

isstay in the mainstream of the Church and live as upright and decent

people live in the Church – keeping the commandments, paying your

tithing, serving in the organizations of the Church, loving the Lord,

staying on the straight and narrow path. If you're on that path when

death comes – because this is the time and the day appointed, this is

the probationary estate – you'll never fall off from it, and, for all

practical purposes, your calling and election is made sure."

I love you all. Stay strong in what you know to be true :)

Love,

Sister Hope

The bird and the glasses :)

Temple walk :)

These pictures are from the

service that we did up in the mountains. We had some crazy storms and

flash floods, so we got to go clean up after some land slides