Real Charity Not Something Given Away; It's Something Acquired

Howdy!! 🤠 “Joy isn’t about the absence of hardship. It’s about the presence of Christ through it.” 🫶 ______ enables us to see hardships in their earthly context and humility are twin characteristics of happiness.. answer below hmm this area is an interesting one.. there truly is so much potential but it feels as though we are getting tugged in so many directions and between seeing our refferals which are to and fro we just are making the most of it! "Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass. It’s about learning to dance in the rain.” Man was that relatable this week.. Highs / Work -> getting to see one of our friends.. she's a single mom of a few kids and we happened to bike by at the right time!! lol see the video -> CHEER SQUAD for volleyball haha ok so we pull up and I don't play.. so I benched myself only to be with a samaon lady and a cute little girl it was divinely orchestrated and I may or may not have had some casualties while serving 🏐🤣 -> Checked out the markets to meet some cool people in our area and turns out theres a lot of events that go on that we can attend to make new friends! -> Started a bible study group for our members and friends alike! Whoop also have been working with our stake self reliance missionary to get things in the works.. -> Kelly says she wants to get baptized.. one of the members has been fellowshipping and low key taking care of our home girl (she was homeless before I believe) so we are looking at trying to get our hope/healing addiction recovery class going -> Lynn and Wei Wei from our english class said not only do they want to do our nails.. but they want to come to church! How brave they are!! we have the time of our life with them hehehe 🈲️ -> Our friend bro T was involved at the culturefest and we were able to attend he's super goated and better at missionary work than we are. He invited both of his friends there to church and said he'd give them a ride over sheesh 🤯 ** LOL fell for the CHILEAN flag as the TEXAN one hehe i'm not trunky I promise I just LOVE TEXAS :) 🇨🇱 anyways I just very happily greeted this dude at his food truck and asked for a picture hehe i think it made both of our days Lows / Grows -> Torrential rain storm man things are different without a car but.. puddles for jesus baby! 🌧☁️🌂 I need some waterproof pants frfr at least our neighbors got hot bread 🍞 -> mix up in the times for our flyers / class and we missed a whole family coming 😭 -> all of our friends fell through basically.. one is in colombia.. others we can't seem to get in contact with etc. -> like it says in the scriptures we have to be patient in our afflictions -> all our member meals are supposed to be such a relationship/trust building and beautiful spiritual experience for us to teach and get to know them better but we've just been getting stuff dropped off.. figuring out how to bridge the gap with members :) I've been reading in Alma and chapters 26 and 29 have caught my attention due to the focus of missionary labors, joy and desire.. Here is what I took from it haha.. D enotes devotion -> don't be distracted E xpression vs conception S atan wants us to be miserable (rembr) I nsistency (craving) R eal longing and relentless righteousness E ternal Joy WHAT ARE YOUR desires??? ♡♡♡ (I hope it's to be with your families again and return to be with your heavenly parents ;) Waiting on the Lord it's a good talk promise https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/2020/10/57holland?lang=eng answer above: gratitude :) Okayyy that's it.. Love you all!! Sister Talbot 0. FHE lol 1. Me and pups 2. Talbot x Vader lol 3. The distsrict 4. Volley cheer squad!! 5. Me and Lynda! 6. Suns out Shades on! * culture fest * CHILE!! shouts to my pops!