Beware of Promptings from the Adversary

"Go the extra mile to bless the lives of others 🏃‍♀️ " That is the best motto you could live by missionary or not 🫡 I'm by no means perfect but there are always blessings that come.. This week was different. Full range of emotions but what a ride! * We did some service at a MENTAL INSTITUTE and boi did we clean out that hoarders room lemme tell you.. sheesh. * We got to go on exchanges and we basicaly went in the big city and just talked with as many people as we could inviting them to english classes and at first I was super intimidated but i low key have gotten already a lot better which is good haha. SUCH an incredible experience going with our mighty STLs. It taught me the blessings and the peace of mind of exact obedience. It truly helped me see how missionary work is already hard enough and how we make things so much simpler when we do wha we can. Fear no man. This is a new thing I have to come to terms with this transfer lol but it's already getting a lot better. From being up north for so long it's still an adjustement to always be surrounded by and talking to people but it always keeps us busy! Here's an excerpt from the Riccardi letter that can explain it better than I can.. So many blessings come from overcoming the adversary. Just the other day we had finished up lunch and were heading to visit a member and could have just went ahead but instead we talked to this guy that was heading towards us instead. His name is Wll. He's a devout and kind Christian who we gave out a Book of Mormon to after giving both of our testimonies havnig a short and sweet q&a seshion and getting to know eachother a bit. I HOPE HE TEXTS US :) so neat this then lead to a whole evening of lil moments like these. We just started catching the fire and were walking towards the bus stop when we see this man on the other side of the street we quickly crossed only to find him seemingly gone. However just before we were to keep going we see him by this van and he uses chat gpt to explain in mandarin that he's helping these people mow their lawn and asked if we were from the church to which we were able to chat for a bit only to have to call the chinese sisters. haha I hope you get the drift this was all within the span of like 30 minutes.. 🔥🔥 Also God has this funny joke with me where on some of my harder days or weeks.. that's when the church releases a song or albumn that I can really connect wiith. It's crazy but it KEEPS HAPPENING lol. We've almost made it through contacting all 70 of our refferals that were here when I arrived.. so that's a hefty goal we made that we are about to accomplish next week. The highlights and laughs: - FIRE FHE's playing scrabble and HOT POTATO, recieving a BFF bracelet our member girl. Their whanau is the best they have this other girl who is llike 9 and she can PICK ME UP it's always chaotic fun. - filiming of the moana music video at 10:00 I had no idea what missionaries do after hours but this should give you a good idea... 🌊 - having make your own KoreanBBQ for dinner. Just wow. And then running home to get back before curphew lol. 🏃‍♂️ - bus waiting entertainment ft. this random lady dancing in the street - meeting a bunch of people from china after my excange in the city whoop whoop Chinese people are so freaking cool :) 🇨🇳 - getting to tell this guy named Jeremy the bus stop that he could stop drinking this Easter becaues of Jesus Christ and then for him to call me babey - I can do weighted burpees now whoop whoop new move unlocked 💪 - waking up to a smoothie + waffles and the book of mormon is like the best way to do it peeps - our friend and the elders friend looking out for eachother haha Miracles ✨️ - Members giving us a ride back after sitting out in the cold waiting for the bus legit as soon as I said a little prayer in my heart members rolled down their window.. - after a hard, frustrating, and discouraging day talking to just one more person before we got home and her ending up being our neighbor and offering to get us dinner - mighty prayers offered :) and the blessing that Easther truly is - Biggest thing I'm looking forward to next week is hopefully getting to teach some cute kids how to code stay tunnedd.... God loves and sees our efforts and fully knows your heart. Just like my fav new quote from working out if you give half you get half but if you give your all you get your all. 💕 "When you fill your hearts with the pure love of Christ, you leave no room for rancor, judgment, and shaming. You keep God’s commandments because you love Him. In the process, you slowly become more Christlike in your thoughts and deeds. And what adventure could be greater than this?" Love you all, Sister Talbot