highest and holiest work

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​"we invite you to come and do the work that God Himself has bored over and toiled over and wept over and pursued since before the beginning of time, since before the found ation of the world. Itʼs fairly serious business and it doesnʼt men depressing and it doesnʼt men discourging. It doesnʼt men that you  canʼt be happy.. God often works with us, directs us, or inspires us without our knowledge" - Elder Holland


The Work
- our progressing friends both came to church! Cameron really enjoyed the service and says he wants to bring his kids along next time and we were able to give him a little tour and teach from the book of mormon the first called him he said "thanks for teaching me more about something I've been wondering aboout my whole life". This man has been prepared!! The Quiazon family is one whos just started coming back to the church and we've been teaching their two cute kids kimmy and kirk. They are the sweetest little family and really love getting to learn about Jesus Christ! Kirk said "dad I want to get baptized can you baptize me?" 
- we did some service for this lovely lady who was just shocked that that's all we do as missionaries haha
- this area gets a lot of refferals like one of my previous one.. so that's been fun as well
- we are still working with the ward to get to know them and help those families who have people who haven't been able to be baptized yet. 
- we went on 2 exchanges this week! One with the chinese sisters and another with one of my amazing MTC comp @Grace Bylund so much fun to run it back and watch her in action! 

I feel so privledged to be here in this area and can already see just a few weeks in how the lord has practically just given us people to teach as soon as we arrived! 

The News
- we are getting 2 visa waiters from samoa for a week so that should be interesting! 
-  we both were assigned to speak at church and it was the first time I've had to do it on my mission haha.. 
- there's a lot more to being an stl than I thought and I sure am still figuring this out but I'm so glad we get to know our sisters and learn from each of them! 

This week I was reading about repentance..  the greek word of which this is the translation denotes a change of mind, a fresh view about God, about oneself, and about the world.. repentance comes to mean a turning of the heart and will to God, and a renunciation of sin to which we are naturally inclined. Without this there can be no progress in the things of the soul’s salvation, for all accountable persons are stained by sin and must be cleansed in order to enter the kingdom of heaven.

Alma 9 reads
26 And not many days hence the Son of God shall come in his glory; and his glory shall be the glory of the Only Begotten of the Father, full of grace, equity, and truth, full of patience, mercy, and long-suffering, quick to hear the cries of his people and to answer their prayers.

27 And behold, he cometh to redeem those who will be baptized unto repentance, through faith on his name

LOVE YOU ALL SISTER TALBOT

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