Monday, October 28, 2019

Week 68 - You can open the gates of Heaven and witness Christ's healing power!


September 30, 2019

Wanna know what's better than being a missionary? Absolutely nothing. Hello hello and once again I'm not sure how another week has come and gone. 
There were so many experiences that helped my testimony grow this week.
One, I love the priesthood. We got a random call from someone visiting from Texas and she said that her husband had surgery and needed a blessing. How incredible that you can go almost anywhere in the world and receive a priesthood blessing. You can open the gates of Heaven and witness Christ's healing power, it's such a beautiful miracle! 
Another thing I learned is that Heavenly Father really does take our weakness and magnifies them into something greater and turns them into strengths. My whole mission I have really struggled with teaching and always feel like I'm not going to have the knowledge or right thing to say. It's something I've constantly been working to overcome and this week I realized that I actually love teaching now and have so many things I want to share and want to always be talking! It's crazy how the Lord can help you in ways you didn't think he could. 
Last but not least, another lesson I learned this week is that the Worlds standards and God's standards are no where close to eachother. I often times will tell myself "well it could be worse and I could be doing this" but really, we should be holding ourselves to the Lord's standards and not the Worlds. 

Now onto the updates in the work! 
-Jeff and Ky are still doing so well!! This week we told them I might be leaving and they said "well we want to finish the conversion with both of you here, so let's make it happen" THEY WANT TO BE BAPTIZED!!! It made my heart so happy. 
-I don't know if you remember the boy I talked about, Forvinski, we stopped by this week and he was so excited to show us what he did. He took the picture of Christ out of the Book of Mormon and taped it to his wall. We got to teach him about Joseph Smith and the Restoration. 
- We met someone new this week, Gene, and he is a straight legend! He is really eager to learn more. He walked us back to the bus station afterwards and blasted some Jesus music on his speaker on the way there. He officially has a "The sisters" playlist on YouTube. 

Well that all for now, gotta go have some fun in Boston while I can. 
I'm looking forward to General Conference this weekend, y'all better tune in! 
Love you all and always remember to keep fighting the good fight and smilin!
Xoxo. Sister Smoot 

Tip of the day: Pancake runs are the best things ever. 

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