Holla
Familia!!
This week
has been fun!! Lots of fun things happened back home, lots of craziness! haha!
but it was awesome no doubt!
So Last week
Sister Isobe and I spent some quality time with the Cave Spring Sister: Larkin
and Michie. We went to the mall, we went shopping, we went to Chick-fil-a. Then
we went to their apartment and painted the tiles on their ceiling. Which sounds
strange but it was super fun! they are those tiles that are in the ceiling of
schools and such. That are all pebble looking. well we painted the other side
that is nice and smooth, so when they move out they will just flip them back
over and no one will ever know. Right? haha. But yeah that is what we did for
Memorial day. Do you know what was sad? The schools make-up day for all of the
snow days that they had was on Memorial Day! so half of the students didn't
even show up, because their parents had already planned trips and such. Then at
the end of the day they said that i they didn't come it was alright and that
they were going to excuse all of the kids! That would be awful! You go to
school and find out that you went for no reason at all!
Anywho, We
were helping a member this week with her Garden. Oh Dad, I thought our Garden
was big... Now it seems so small. let me just say it's about 100x100ft. It is
probably bigger than that, but anywho it was huge. So I used some kind of weird
tool that broke up the soil and pretty much got rid of the small weeds that
were growing everywhere. Sister Isobe used the Hoe. Anywho, as I was going
along I was just going hard core at it up and down the rows of tomato plans,
peppers, etc. when all of a sudden the end popped off! I looked at it and I
realized the two bolts that were holding it together were gone! They had
wiggled themselves off as I was going through things. I saw a bolt in the dirt
earlier and I had wondered where it came from, but didn't bother to pick it up.
Now I knew exactly what it was. The other bolt was right there in the dirt
where the end had fallen off, so that one was a little easier to find. I
thought of this as how we go about in life. We are going around doing so much
good, and we are doing it pretty splendidly, but as we were going along we
started to neglect some of the important things that we should be doing like
reading our scriptures, going to church, doing are callings, praying. and our
bolts started to come loose that was holding us together. We don't realize it
at first because it seems that we are doing the same work as we were doing
before. But soon one of the Bolts falls off. We don't realize it because we
still have the other bolt. But we are no longer receiving the blessings that we
had with the other bolt. We continue on for a while but the other bolt can't do
all of the work on it's own and it quickly starts to wiggle off until it too
falls off. The tool is now not usable. Well you could, but it wouldn't be as
effective... and rather pointless, and you could start to break the tool in
fact and may no be able to fix it as quickly or as easily. Life starts to seem
to fall apart, or feels harder than it should be. This is where we need to go
back and fix. Put the Bolts back in and tighten them again. Repentance. But
there is one thing that we have to be cautious of. Repentance, and True
Repentance. When I screwed the bolts back on by hand after a few more minutes I
noticed that the Bolts were starting to come loose again and they were about to
fall off again. It isn't about just putting the Bolts back on. It's about
putting them back on and Tightening them so that they don't all off easily
again. We need to be continually aware of what we are doing and making sure
that we are fixing things, always trying to improve on how we do things.
Of course
using a Hoe would have been easier because it's not held together by bolts, but
hey, whatever.
Other cool
things that happened: We went to Sister Debusks and she showed us her
encyclopedia Library. She has them all from like the past 100 years all of the
editions. She loves her encyclopedias. They are pretty cool! I didn't realize
how cool encyclopedias were! But yeah she also told me that she had ancestors
that were Call's. and she started telling me all of these things, I'm not
really sure if it is the same Call's and I can't really remember the stories
because they were so foreign to me haha.
We also had
Dinner with Bishop McGraw and his wife, and they invited our investigator Mary
to come as well! It was AWESOME! The Food was great, the conversation was
great, just everything went so well. After that we went and tried a less active
named Cliff. When we got to his house we heard some banjo music playing, and we
were super impressed and we liked it, when we knocked on the door the music
stopped, He opened the door and was holding a banjo!!! He was playing some
awesome Banjo tunes! It was insane! The people out here are so Musically
Talented! But yeah, he let us play his Banjo, and he went and grabbed his
fiddle too! Sweet Bluegrass, sweet sweet bluegrass.
The last
thing that was awesome this week was Zone Meeting. It was all about overcoming
and reacting to hard times and we had examples from the scriptures. Also, about
how in Preach My Gospel it says 'YOU'. Each of us are called to what we are
doing for a reason. Because You are the only one who can effect the people in
hat area. You. Your personality. Your interests. You. It was all about us being
who we are instead of being a robot missionary. It was awesome. But the part
that I liked the most was about Prayer. Prayer has always been something that I
don't completely understand, but I know how much power comes from it. What we
went over was Praying Specifically. When we ask for things that are specific
then we will receive specific blessings. Praying for things such as to meet a
family of five that are working outside. Or a man in his late 30's When we pray
for things specifically and what we are going to do like give them a family
proclamation and such. It goes for everything we pray for. When we are specific
and looking for what we have prayed for then God will answer us. If we are
Vague and don't really know what we are asking for, then how are we supposed to
know the answer God gives us?
I have
prayed to know that the Book of Mormon is true. I wasn't visited by angels, I
didn't hear a voice shout out to me and tell me that it was true, but every
time I read it, or think about it I Feel good. I feel like it is true. The
thought of Wickedness never was Happiness always pops into mind. I have prayed
wondering why things were so hard and why it couldn't be easier, and I just
felt at peace after that and the next day I read a talk called His Grace is
Sufficient...
"In the
same way, because Jesus has paid justice, He can now turn to us and say,
“Follow me” (Matthew 4:19), “Keep my commandments” (John 14:15). If we see His
requirements as being way too much to ask (“Gosh! None of the other Christians
have to pay tithing! None of the other Christians have to go on missions, serve
in callings, and do temple work!”), maybe it is because we do not yet see
through Christ’s eyes. We have not yet comprehended what He is trying to make
of us."
So many
things can run through the mind so easily, when we already know the answer, but
we all ask questions at times. But it is how we react to those situations. I am
still working on Christlike attributes. I am definitely not a perfect person,
but I am doing the best I can.
I love you
all, I love the Gospel, I love this beautiful earth that I can see. I love
pictures. I love friends. I love memories. I love so many things. I love each
and every one of You, and yes I mean it.
Be good,
work hard, be diligent. and God will bless you.
Loves,
Sister Karen
Call
Pic 1&2:
SO MANY TREES!! SO GREEN!
Pic 3:
Chinchilla!!
Pic 4: mmm..
Fresh Chicken
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