dear everyone.
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Went to Borden's ice cream with Yolanda and the girls! we <3 them.
we made scripture boxes with them and it was so fun :)
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exchanges with the STLs!
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wowie do we have inspired leaders or what???
It was an amazing conference to hear from God through our leaders <3
we had a lil miracle as our favoritest person ever Ms. Cheryl came to Sunday morning session of conference!! and wow. she had a wonderful experience.
backstory:
Cheryl is going through a serious custody battle with her ex husband.
She was the one who had gotten a new phone and number so that she could get away from all the drama and harassment. and we called her the same day she was about to turn off that phone.
#GODSHAND
and we have had incredible lessons with her and her member fiance Tim. about the plan of salvation and about how the gospel can help her in her life.
We weren't able to see her this week until Conference because she had a very big deal court case custody battle hearing on Friday and was diligently preparing for it. It was going to be a doozy.
but her diligence and prayers were heard and her hearing went so well!! she killed it at the hearing!! and she was able to hang out with her daughter for 2 hours at the park on saturday for the first time in 2 years.
So while sitting and listening to conference sunday morning all about family, and faith over fear, and of course all the other wonderful topics of sunday morning, Ms. cheryl just sweetly sat there and cried and cried and cried tears of t r u t h. she felt the truth of it in her soul.
They invited us over to their house in between sessions and we sat around their table and cried into our fresh fruit (i know i would be crying bc of this too #happyhealthytears)
no but really we cried as she opened up more to us about what was going on in her life and what her struggles have been. and we talked about the joy that she felt when she got to be with her daughter and how he daughter has changed and grown and just JOY. and then the truth that she felt as she listened to conference and how every talk she felt was directed right at her.
and we testified to her that she was being so b l e s s e d for her faith that she has put forth in reading and meeting with us and coming to conference. it was amazing.
When individuals are ready.. they f e e l the spirit. and we dont have to do anything but be worthy to be an instrument and act. and its wonderful.
I love this work.
I am so happy to be a missionary yall. its an amazing work and a wonder how God plans everything for our benefit.
I don't know if I told yall but there is a D&C challenge where you read a section of D&C a day 138 days before you go home so I am reading D&C. and I was ready this week in section 78 and its just one simple verse.
"For if [ you will ] that I give unto you a place in the celestial world, [ you ] must prepare yourselves by doing the things which I have commanded you and required of you."
God is the best communicator. He has set out exactly what He will do for exactly what we do. WE CHOOSE WHAT GOD GIVES US.
you choose close to every single thing that happens in your life. not everything... but almost.
what are you choosing? who did you choose to follow today?
we cant just not think about it anymore. Did yall hear conference? we cant sit on the sidelines and let it play out in front of us. To be a disciple of Jesus Christ we need to play!! Actively choose every decision you make. what does that say to Heavenly Father? who did you follow from that choice? it really is that black and white sometimes.
Sabbath day activities. Sure it may not be a bad activity but who are you following when you made that choice to do that? what did that choice say to Heavenly Father?
Just repent and do better next time.
Missionary work. who did you choose when you felt to talk to that person but shied away because of fear or indifference or judgement or laziness or tiredness?
Just repent and do better next time.
just saying our whole life is based on every single choice you make! we cant sit idle anymore! BE ACTIVE IN THE GOSPEL YALL.
anyways. woow. lil rant.
my passion slipped out a lil there!
but yall I really am so passionate about this gospel and living and actively following. it is SO EASY to be lazy and not choose or not participate but we cant do that anymore. things are happening! We must MOVE!
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the homie district @ Fuzzy's in BR
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GUESS WHO CAME TO VISIT <3333 bff p fleg
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the most important missionary in the mission <3 my companion
(what we learned in our zone meeting. that your companion is your most important investigator)
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I love yall so much!
I love louisiana even when it tries to kill us sometimes.
did yall hear about the storms this week?? it came out of no where!! (at least for the ones who cant check the weather lol) but yea bad tornados in my past area of Alexandria! :( prayers for them. they were supposed to hit lafayette and it got real bad for a while but thankfully just bad thunderstorms and no nados :)
love yall!
xoxoxoxoxoxoxxoxoxoxoxoxoxox
sister sades
[ coolest non missionary experience ever!! ]
when I was on exchanges I got to go help them do service at the BR old state capitol building (a great castle that obviously used to be the capitol building but is now a museum. A++++ museum!!)
anyways got to help them for a lil bit and we had a bit before we started so they got to show me around! not the regular museum around though... they took me to the secret places!!!!!
I CLIMBED ON TOP OF THE CASTLE TOWER IN A PENCIL SKIRT AND LOOKED OVER BATON ROUGE. IT WAS ONE OF THE COOLEST THINGS IVE DONE.
kinda felt like a secret spy (even though it was totally legal and okay!) but I was in my dress clothes and running on the roof and climbing sketchy ladders and it was awesome. A+++ exchange. #quality
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and this is a picture from January (thats why everything is dead and wintery) that I took of the
building and included so yall could see it better.
but I was on that right tower thing!! it was so cool!
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THATS WHAT I CLIMBED ON
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the BR old state capitol!! its amazing
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the ceiling
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a room
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Sister Andrus climbing the sketchy ladder behind me
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but then BOOM! YOURE ON TOP OF THE OLD STATE CAPITOL BUILDING
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the shadow of the castle <3 im on that lil tower thing!
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my city of BR looking at the mississippi river
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how to get down. go back down the sketchy ladder
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run over the slick, burning hot roof and back over to the catwalk
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this is looking back at where we came from. right inside those windows is the stained glass ceiling of the building. the catwalk that connects to the building is the door we came out of (more on how to get up there later)
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anyways... then we also went to a farmers market saturday morning with sister speed!
it was fun :) reminded me of boise farmers market
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then in between saturday sessions there was another market with taste tests from a bunch of local people selling salsas, honey, sweets, seasonings, just anything! it was fun :) ft. the spanish elders
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