Hello everyone!
I hope you all had a great week and had many opportunities to serve and share the gospel!
I hope you all had a great week and had many opportunities to serve and share the gospel!
So our baptism from Saturday actually got moved to this Saturday, but it's still happening so thats good!!
On Tuesday we had interviews with President Whitney! It was so good to talk with him and get council from him and visit with his wife. They are such a sweet couple and I'm very grateful for them and their service!
After interviews we went over the The Blatters house, (senior missionary couple) and they taught us how to make fajitas, it was so fun. We had such a good conversation with them about how we as humans cope with life or just our hard trials and our weaknesses.
I'll give an example of what I'm trying to say..
When we are going through something really hard or stressful or when we feel down or even depressed, what do we do? Usually people will take a nap, watch some TV, listen to music, or watch a movie. While these all may be great things, they all have one thing in common. They are complete worldly. They are things of the world and they are the things that Satan WANTS us to rely on for strength and to cope.
Something that I have noticed as a missionary is that here on the mission, you are literally given one option to cope with your trials and your weaknesses. But, I have a testimony and I have come to the knowledge that it is literally the only way on this earth, that will completely heal you and strengthen you. And that is through Praying to our Loving Heavenly Father.
Jesus Christ didn't suffer for our sins and feel our pains and hardships for us NOT to rely on Him! He has done all the work, he has felt the depression or the anxiety or the stresses that you are feeling!! And he wants to help you, and I can promise you that if you rely on Him and go to your Father in Heaven and just ask Him for strength, you WILL find that strength and that guidance and that peace that you are searching for! Satan doesn't know what it feels like, so who is he to say take and nap and "you might feel better". It doesn't work like that. But I promise that Jesus Christ knows how you feel and he is here with His arms stretched out to help you.
1 nephi 21:16
"Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me."
Sorry I kinda went off on a tangent but I just want you all to know that Christ is THE ONLY way and to just trust in Him and rely on his grace and mercy.
After interviews we went over the The Blatters house, (senior missionary couple) and they taught us how to make fajitas, it was so fun. We had such a good conversation with them about how we as humans cope with life or just our hard trials and our weaknesses.
I'll give an example of what I'm trying to say..
When we are going through something really hard or stressful or when we feel down or even depressed, what do we do? Usually people will take a nap, watch some TV, listen to music, or watch a movie. While these all may be great things, they all have one thing in common. They are complete worldly. They are things of the world and they are the things that Satan WANTS us to rely on for strength and to cope.
Something that I have noticed as a missionary is that here on the mission, you are literally given one option to cope with your trials and your weaknesses. But, I have a testimony and I have come to the knowledge that it is literally the only way on this earth, that will completely heal you and strengthen you. And that is through Praying to our Loving Heavenly Father.
Jesus Christ didn't suffer for our sins and feel our pains and hardships for us NOT to rely on Him! He has done all the work, he has felt the depression or the anxiety or the stresses that you are feeling!! And he wants to help you, and I can promise you that if you rely on Him and go to your Father in Heaven and just ask Him for strength, you WILL find that strength and that guidance and that peace that you are searching for! Satan doesn't know what it feels like, so who is he to say take and nap and "you might feel better". It doesn't work like that. But I promise that Jesus Christ knows how you feel and he is here with His arms stretched out to help you.
1 nephi 21:16
"Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me."
Sorry I kinda went off on a tangent but I just want you all to know that Christ is THE ONLY way and to just trust in Him and rely on his grace and mercy.
So anyways, We also had exchanges this week! so on Thursday night our sister training leaders came down to Cove and picked me up and one of them stayed here with Sister Blaney. We went up to their area, which is in Temple. On Friday me and Sister Baker had such a great day full of miracles! So backstory, we as missionaries hand out a lot of pass-along cards. And so there was this lady, Bonnie, who happened to come across one, and she decided to call the number on the back to get her free book of Mormon or Bible that you get when you call the number. (which usually no one ever actually calls the number) but she did!! So we went to her house and brought her a Bible and a book of Mormon and you could just tell that she is prepared to hear the gospel. It is something she has been searching for and she didn't even know how to find it. But Heavenly Father knows her and he placed us, or the pass along card, in her pathway, to help her find her way back to Him!!
On Saturday we also had a few miracles, but one that I want to share is about Bill. Who is someone we are teaching. He is someone who is very hard to get in contact with, so we have only taught him one lesson.. But he has come to church twice.. It's a super weird situation, but anyways we just were prompted Saturday afternoon to go stop by his house and see how he was doing. We started walking up to his yard and he came outside just as we were getting there. He said he wanted to get out of the house and go for a drive. But when he saw us he said that he didn't wanna come to church anymore and that he was basically done. We were super confused because we literally had only taught him one lesson, so there was no way he could know enough to know that this wasn't right for him at this time. So we just started talking to him and basically told him that he didn't have to come to church but that we wanted to continue teaching him the lessons so that he had a better understanding of the gospel before he dropped us.
He started talking about random stuff, and telling us about his finishing boat and his paper work that he's been doing, and by the end of this very long conversation he said, "you know what, I'll be at church tomorrow, I was trying to find a reason or a way to convince myself not to go, but I think I'm gonna go now"
It was so cool, we didn't even tell him to come to church but we could feel the spirit within us and it testifying to him that we were sent there at that exact moment in time to just have a simple conversation with him. And the spirit "told" him to keep going to church.
It was such a cool experience! I love how strong and exact I can feel the spirit every single day as a missionary!
He started talking about random stuff, and telling us about his finishing boat and his paper work that he's been doing, and by the end of this very long conversation he said, "you know what, I'll be at church tomorrow, I was trying to find a reason or a way to convince myself not to go, but I think I'm gonna go now"
It was so cool, we didn't even tell him to come to church but we could feel the spirit within us and it testifying to him that we were sent there at that exact moment in time to just have a simple conversation with him. And the spirit "told" him to keep going to church.
It was such a cool experience! I love how strong and exact I can feel the spirit every single day as a missionary!
This week I was reading the talk "Stand Forever" by Lawrence E. Corbridge (you can find it on speeches.byu.edu)
I would recommend ALL of you to read this. Member of the church or not, it is such a great talk and I believe all would benefit from it. Something that I really liked that he said was, "you should be true to your beliefs but you cannot be better than what you know"
I would recommend ALL of you to read this. Member of the church or not, it is such a great talk and I believe all would benefit from it. Something that I really liked that he said was, "you should be true to your beliefs but you cannot be better than what you know"
Well I hope you all have a great week this week, feel free to email me and update me on your lives haha I miss you all so much!! 
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Also if anyone knows how to convert music or send music as a file attachment then let me know, I have a favor to ask
Love, Sister Thorpe
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