Sister Sadie goes to Louisiana!: sweet sweet rejuvenation

Yall it was a glorious week this week :)

It was a miracle this week because we went on exchanges! I adore exchanges. it is such a reboost and energizer.

but exchanges this time was unlike an other!! beeecaaaauuusee I got to be with the one and only Sister Steve!

catch up: Sister Steve is a gem of an individual and I was blessed to be companions with her early on in my mission. She has been a shining, shining example to me in faith in God's plan to work through the craziness of life and mission life, staying positive, CHRISTLIKE LOVEEE, and just pure friendship.

It felt so good to be together and so natural and easy. It was like we never left each other being companions because we are the same with our same actions and sayings and habits, but it was just so evident that we have grown immensely through our time we had been apart, more experience to share and stories and just wisdom.

We had the coolest experience together!

Sister Steve had met Sister Erickson on exchanges in Albany when she in Covington a looonnggg time ago. She was a darling less active sister and Sister Steve had always wanted to go back to see her but it just had never happened yet.

So off to Sister Erickson's house we went!

We show up to her house, unannounced like we always do and just like Sister Steve said, met the most darling lady ever! We started visiting with her and one thing lead to the next and it turns out to be the MOST POWERFUL SPIRIT FILLED LESSON OF MY MISSION.

It turns out that Sister Erickson lost her husband to cancer and that night was the 9 month anniversary. This dear sister is s t r u g g l i n g with grief.

She told us how much misses him. and its alot.

She told us how much pain she is in. and its alot.

She told us how much she loves him. and that is alot alot.

She told us that she would do anything to be with him no matter where he is. Literally anything. to be with him.

And after we listened to this child of God tearfully express to us her confusion and hard feelings toward God then soon after her complete remorse for feeling negatively toward God, and desire to end her life so she would not have to live alone without her husband for another day..

then Sister Steve started speaking. She bore the sweetest, most spirit filled testimony that hit us all right to the core.

She explained to Sister Erickson that God is aware of her right in this moment. She boldly told her that it is not her time to leave this earth, that Sister Erickson has a purpose right here right now. She helped her understand that God wants to know all the feeling in our hearts, even the ones that may be sour, that He listens to it all and understands it all. She bore the sweetest testimony of the Saviors Atonement and the power He has to understand what she is feeling and buoy her up and fill the holes she has. She then shared Mosiah 16:7-9 which testifies of the resurrection and the power of Christ.

The Spirit was unbelievably strong yall.

Sister Erickson was just crying away and feels the spirit so strong.

She then goes on and tells us the sweetest stories and experiences she had with her husband. How they met, what he was like, the love they shared, how the cancer effected their family, the 24 hours before he passed, and the extremely sacred, sweet, tender moments before he died.

And it was in those moments when we all cried together, is when God was truly with us.

This work is the truest thing I have ever taken part of in my life. This gospel answers and fills all the holes in our life. And I feel so incredibly blessed to be apart of it to see it change others around me. And sometimes be the means by which the spirit can witness and work in them that God loves them, that He is aware, that He has a true purpose for them, and that His gospel.. is the only way that we will ever have true happiness and peace.

my person <3

Walking down the driveway of Sister Erickson's house next to one of the sweetest friends I have ever made after this beautiful spiritual lesson... was just rejuvenating.

It has been a good minute since I have sat down and had a lesson let alone such a spirit filled and guided lesson.

It has been a good minute since I have felt the real passion of the gospel working in mine and others lives.

It has been a real good minute since I have felt the passion of missionary work.

A reminder of why I am here on a mission, reminding me what mission work has the potential to be like and feel like, reminding me of what my purpose as a SPIRITUAL BEING is.

"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience." -Teilehard De Chardin

Doesn't this quote change everything??

We are children of God going through this earthly experience. Spiritual beings going through a human experience. not just a person going through life with an occasional spiritual experience.

Make these spiritual experiences part of your daily! This is your true nature!

Isn't that amazing. We have so much divinity and potential. We just need to access it.

That is why I call this week sweet sweet rejuvenation.

Sweet friends, sweet experiences, and a rejuvenation of the mind. powerful yall.

moments and weeks like these are what change us forever.

I love this work yall and I'm so grateful to be apart of it!

LOVE LOVE LOVE YALL!

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sister sades