Week 7 - Technically this is week 10. . . oh well. I loved this week. IT WAS CHRISTMAS!! Okay no more yelling, but I really loved this week. I'm still sick. . . and yes it has been almost over a month and yes I'm seeing a doctor, so no one panic.
We had a pretty slow week because it was Christmas, but amazing things still happened. We met a woman who had just moved in and met missionaries in Southern California, where she had lived before! It was honestly magical. She came to church and loved it and loved that she could listen to the Book of Mormon! Other than her most of the people we are teaching are gone until January visiting family. But that's okay, we were then able to focus on those who needed us right then. Heavenly Father will help work things out.
We spent Christmas Eve and Day at several members houses. They were so kind and made those days even better. We've gotten so much food and treats from members though. It's made it really hard to be healthy.
This week I learned a lot about the reason we were given the Book of Mormon. I'd been trying to study from the Bible to find some good scriptures about lesson topics. I'd been at it for about a week when I realized I was feeling really bad. In my effort to find good bible scriptures I'd forgotten to take more time to study the Book of Mormon and Preach My Gospel, and filling out my DIB Journal (Doctrine, Invitation, Blessings), all the things that we were supposed to be studying. The next morning when I studied those things I found my study going so much better. I actually read the scriptures that one of the people we were teaching needed to hear!
That scripture that I read was Mosiah 4:9-12. I won't put the full thing here, but it suffice me to say that it testifies of God, our Heavenly Father.
"Believe in God; believe that he is, and that he created all things, both in heaven and in earth; believe that he has all wisdom, and all power, both in heaven and in earth; believe that man doth not comprehend all the things which the Lord can comprehend.
10 And again, believe that ye must repent of your sins and forsake them, and humble yourselves before God; and ask in sincerity of heart that he would forgive you; and now, if you believe all these things see that ye do them.
12 And behold, I say unto you that if ye do this ye shall always rejoice, and be filled with the love of God, and always retain a remission of your sins; and ye shall grow in the knowledge of the glory of him that created you, or in the knowledge of that which is just and true."
How amazing is that promise! I know that this can happen. I've seen it already in people that we are teaching. My testimony has grown and I know now more than ever that God is our Heavenly Father. We are His children and He loves us. We can do the things it says in that scripture and we will gain our own testimony and a remission of our sins. I also know that Heavenly Father wants to teach us. I saw that this week. I had the learn the answer to the question the people we were teaching for myself. Why do we need the Book of Mormon? Because it is God's word and the "most correct of any book on earth."
I love you all!
Sister Gibb
Pictures - sorry there's only four. I'll be better about taking more pictures. 😅
1) I got to play the violin!!
2) My companion at the piano
3) Our Christmas Morning
4) Kitty!!
We had a pretty slow week because it was Christmas, but amazing things still happened. We met a woman who had just moved in and met missionaries in Southern California, where she had lived before! It was honestly magical. She came to church and loved it and loved that she could listen to the Book of Mormon! Other than her most of the people we are teaching are gone until January visiting family. But that's okay, we were then able to focus on those who needed us right then. Heavenly Father will help work things out.
We spent Christmas Eve and Day at several members houses. They were so kind and made those days even better. We've gotten so much food and treats from members though. It's made it really hard to be healthy.
This week I learned a lot about the reason we were given the Book of Mormon. I'd been trying to study from the Bible to find some good scriptures about lesson topics. I'd been at it for about a week when I realized I was feeling really bad. In my effort to find good bible scriptures I'd forgotten to take more time to study the Book of Mormon and Preach My Gospel, and filling out my DIB Journal (Doctrine, Invitation, Blessings), all the things that we were supposed to be studying. The next morning when I studied those things I found my study going so much better. I actually read the scriptures that one of the people we were teaching needed to hear!
That scripture that I read was Mosiah 4:9-12. I won't put the full thing here, but it suffice me to say that it testifies of God, our Heavenly Father.
"Believe in God; believe that he is, and that he created all things, both in heaven and in earth; believe that he has all wisdom, and all power, both in heaven and in earth; believe that man doth not comprehend all the things which the Lord can comprehend.
10 And again, believe that ye must repent of your sins and forsake them, and humble yourselves before God; and ask in sincerity of heart that he would forgive you; and now, if you believe all these things see that ye do them.
12 And behold, I say unto you that if ye do this ye shall always rejoice, and be filled with the love of God, and always retain a remission of your sins; and ye shall grow in the knowledge of the glory of him that created you, or in the knowledge of that which is just and true."
How amazing is that promise! I know that this can happen. I've seen it already in people that we are teaching. My testimony has grown and I know now more than ever that God is our Heavenly Father. We are His children and He loves us. We can do the things it says in that scripture and we will gain our own testimony and a remission of our sins. I also know that Heavenly Father wants to teach us. I saw that this week. I had the learn the answer to the question the people we were teaching for myself. Why do we need the Book of Mormon? Because it is God's word and the "most correct of any book on earth."
I love you all!
Sister Gibb
Pictures - sorry there's only four. I'll be better about taking more pictures. 😅
1) I got to play the violin!!
2) My companion at the piano
3) Our Christmas Morning
4) Kitty!!
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