We just had a lot of chips and salsa this week.....
What a crazy crazy crazy week. Sister Hansen and I had a lot to do,
and not a lot of time to get it all done. We biked like crazy this
week... Luckily it was only around 104-106 degrees this week...... I
can't believe I just said that but it's true. It's about to get into
the 118-120 in the next week so we should be taking advantage of this
"nice weather" haha!
Sister Hansen and I have been going around the ward and doing a fun
little summer FHE with everyone! This time we had it with a cute
little family in our ward named the Riffenburgs. They are such an
awesome family and the FHE went great! We talked about how Heavenly
Father has given each of us unique talents and gifts and how we should
expand on those gifts that we have been given!
On Saturday we had zone meeting, sister Hansen and I gave a discussion
on obedience. We are the only sisters in our zone!! Which is actually
really fun, but we wanted to make this discussion super super fun. We
handed each elder an Oreo and told them if they could wait to eat the
Oreo until after the discussion then they would get a bigger prize!
It's kinda like that one experiment where the little kids get a
marshmallow and if they wait an allotted amount of time they got a
second marshmallow! So we talked about obedience and how we are doing
as a mission, what we can improve on, and what we want to do better.
Preparing for this lesson made me think of how obedient I'm being as a
missionary. I want to be the most obedient that I can be, because I
know of the blessings that can come from that,not only for myself but
for my investigators as well. At the end of the lessons we gave them
oatmeal cookies and watermelon :)
We had a meeting with our ward mission leader on Sunday... Well
actually every Sunday. But he gave the spiritual thought this time and
he used 2 Timothy 2:1,3 and it says:
1 Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
3 Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
Endure hardness!!!!!! It's only but a moment in the grand scheme of
things. Missions are crazy hard, but so so worth it. It's definitely
something that I needed to hear. Be a soldier and endure!! I just love
that verse, it gives me so much gumption! ( gumption is my new
favorite word by the way... It's just cool ) be strong and face the
hard challenges in life. Yes it's hard, yes it sucks sometimes, and
yes you have to put in a lot of work. But being able to say that
you've done those hard things and you endured them will increase your
testimony by so much. Work hard, be good and be Christlike to everyone
around you. I promise that you will notice the blessings.
Have a great week, I'm thankful for you all!!
- Sister Malloree Arnold
She's not sentimental. So as a joke I made her get out of the car and pick this up. Hehe :)
Palm tree Sunday
We just biked... And we're waiting for our appointment so we found some rare grass and laid on it.
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