For God Loveth a Cheerful Giver

This week in the chaotic life of mine.. You will always feel something missing from your life—always—if you’re not helping to gather Israel. And you will find—I promise you—your most profound and purest joys when you are fully engaged in this work with those you love. Why? Because deep down your spirit knows why you are here. Work - Met more of our members .. their suport and strentghting is key before they can fully be onboard the missioanry work - went to a police event that our lit friend invited us to so that was interesting.. but honestly really neat met some amazing people!! - grocery family.. we were visiting someone nearby and they were carrying groceries but by the time we we asked to help they were like already inside.. however we talked to their upstairs neighbor and it led to refferal for the philipino missionaries who we are doing service for tommorrow! Super neat experience to get to share the book of mormon with this younger mom and offering to help with some of their rubish :) - met some cool people and invited em' to church guys we had 5 FRIENDS COME TO CHURCH FOR THEIR FIRST TIME it was incredibly chaotic and beautiful wahooo crazy day sheesh Sundays are crazy... but we also had the most incredible 2nd hour lesson on JESUS CHRIST its hard to explain but it was just truly felt like there was nothin in the world that I would rather be doing in that moment 🥺 7:30 meetings till church started right after.. helping with WAIRERES baptism (friend from up north) - english class!! --> Chapel tour --> good times and a beautiful message on prayer - fire weekly planning - Bible study with kelsey (non member mom of our new member family) - retruning member steven *keep him in your prayers * - tweing, heart attacks, and refferals - Singing at our resthome and a resident saying "this is better than lunch" haha lol we had an epic turnout of no one (they forgot to remind people..?) we had to walk there and back and then have the residents go bring their friends for like 5 people to come but the SPIRIT WAS SO STRONG tesitifying of the things we sang about Jesus and it was beautiful. - things falling through only to meet people we wouldn't have otherwise #ANDREWTHEMAN is going to be helping with a service next week - EXHAUSTING JOY man have i been tired :) Hilarious - walking off in the dark carrying like 4 bags lol and just dying laughing as a group of members stare at us.. - boy and bike x church (through the chapel) - my comp thinking a members tie was a penguine when it was an orca - being soo hungry and walking in the dark only to phone a friend and have pizza - biking in the rain :) Bad times - fearrrr... - eating chicken hearts :( - already hitting 8 months :/ - my face like legit starts to hurt from talking so much sometimes it's crazyyyy all day non stop - frekaing out and stressing over nothing sometimes oops I do not think the Lord expects immediate perfection of us, but I do believe he expects immediate progress, and with that progress comes consecration. I believe that he recognizes and appreciates every step we take forward, however small it may be, striving to put our whole souls on the altar of sacrifice... consecrated missionaries leave their fears on the sacrificial altar and open their mouths with everyone. This will be one of your great challenges in the mission field. The reason it is so important to open our mouths is that every time we do so we exercise faith, and every time we exercise faith we invite the spirit and miracles into our lives. Consecrated missionaries open their mouth with everyone. "A man’s heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps.... " Ladder STEPS TO BE A Member Missionary 🔥 🔥 1. Pray for missionaries 2, Be an Example 3. Let others knowabout the gospel or that you are a member 4. Accompany teaching appointments 5. Pray for your own opportunity warning lol you WILL RECIEVE THEM 6. Invite others.. to church.. to fhe... etc. Which part of the latter are you on? What can you do this week? LOVE YOU ALL xx SISTER TALBOT