Divine covenants make strong Christians.

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​This week was just all over the place and although a lot of our friends are struggling to make it to church.. this weeks focus was on things that we can do to influence adn control only things within our power. I LOVED THIS QUOTE <3


"fill your life with service to others. As you lose your life in the service of Father in Heaven’s children, Satan’s temptations lose power in your life." I have found this to be so true while on my mission focusing on others needs provides such powerful spiritual protection :)

“The grace of the Lord through the Atonement can both cleanse us of sin and assist us in perfecting ourselves through our trials, sicknesses, and even character defects. … Christ can repair our flaws and failings that otherwise are not repairable (see Genesis 18:14; Mark 9:23)

Work:
- Service for a older lady included dusting old cabinets with a vaccum.. also vaccumed for another older lady lol
- Lesson over the phone to answer our friends questions and started up our addiction recovery class for Jeff he's struggling big time though
- More phone refferals..and guess what - Mirintia has a whole family of beautiful african brothers and sisters and she wants to come to church!
- got to go on exchanges with the other STLS which was exciting! wow we drew stress pies, went graveyard finding, and ate chocolate covered almonds it was pretty great!
- we met our friend Mashas husband who was a little drunk and smoking but when we went up to talk with him and asked if he wanted to stop smoking and join our hope and healing class he dropped his cigarette and immediately put it out! we initially didn't have it in our plan to go their house but wow God just placed him right outside for us.
- got to teach Esther! she is super lovely and the rest of her family is a member but funnily enough she's been "taught' for a few years lol but then we asked what do you know about the book of mormon and we got blank stares haha we've got work to do.. and turns out that she really loved the marked copy with answers to questions we gave her
- had our first in person member dinner in AGES I MISS them sooo muchhh it was amazing. they are both returned missionaries and it was wonderful to share experiences and be on the same page looking forward to working with more of our members!
- went to our local mall bus stop to just talk with everyone and invite them to church! got a whole mix of responces and some were friendlier than others haha
- taught our friend Safe / Tan about prayer and the book of mormon!!
- did some music at the resthome and the folks there are soooo funnny theres this sweet older guy who's just yappn up a storm it was good times for sure

This week I'm grateful for..
- going on runs with my companion haha she's actually the best
- finding the most beatiful part of our area wowwww
-our members making us katsu chicken yummm
- seeing my mission my one last timmeee 😭

crazy story
- ummm so we went to the library and get out of the car to see police checking out this guy whos like passed out..
- we found a giant as spider in our flatt
- we dropped by our youth activity to say hi to peeps and saw multiple non members tried striking up conversations and got "i don't know my name" lol

"The Lord is pleased with every effort, even the tiny, daily ones in which we strive to be more like Him. Though we may see that we have far to go on the road to perfection, we must not give up hope."

"He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength."

Isaiah 40:29, 31

"But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run,  and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint."

Love you all!!

SISTER TALBOT

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