Hola everyone!
In the world of missionary work this week we have had a wonderful week. We set up family history booths at the Farmers Market and in the town square for Valentine's Day! The one in town Square was the most fun. We had people writing someone they loved and why they loved them on hearts and hanging them on a tree that someone made for us. I'll attach a picture for reference because we've had people get confused before!
From that booth, we met this wonderful woman named Y* who is so excited about doing her family history! We get to meet with her at the Family History Center here in Santa Rosa on Tuesday. My companion and I are so excited!
I've actually been doing my own family history a lot recently. Our Mission President challenged us to do an hour each week, but I can honestly say I've done about 2-3 total hours! It's so much fun to do, but as my companion can testify I get super frustrated with it when I can't find a record for that person. Oh well!
I wanted to leave you all with a thought for this week. There is a quote that stood out to me this week by C.S. Lewis. It says, “[Some] say of some temporal suffering, ‘No future bliss can make up for it,’ not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory. … The Blessed will say, ‘We have never lived anywhere except in Heaven.’” I've learned this week that when that temporal suffering comes (and it will come) you don't have to suffer. Trials will come and you will experience things that will make life hard, but you can choose how to react to the situation. You can choose to act and remember eternal truths that you knew before or to react and forget about those truths. You can choose joy!
There is a scripture in the Book of Mormon that talks about that exact concept. It says, "Wherefore, men are free according to the flesh; and all things are given them which are expedient unto man. And they are free to choose . . . Adam fell that men might be; and men are, that they might have joy."
Notice the word might at the end? That word means the possibility of joy. Not the assurance of joy, but the possibility. You have to choose to have joy! I can testify that choosing joy works. It's going to be hard, but we can all do hard things! And nothing, nothing is impossible with Christ by our side!
I love you all and miss you so much!
Sister Gibb
Pictures:
Me
We found a Lizard! And then its tail came off. . . 🤢
Valentines Booth
On the bus again
Cat!
In the world of missionary work this week we have had a wonderful week. We set up family history booths at the Farmers Market and in the town square for Valentine's Day! The one in town Square was the most fun. We had people writing someone they loved and why they loved them on hearts and hanging them on a tree that someone made for us. I'll attach a picture for reference because we've had people get confused before!
From that booth, we met this wonderful woman named Y* who is so excited about doing her family history! We get to meet with her at the Family History Center here in Santa Rosa on Tuesday. My companion and I are so excited!
I've actually been doing my own family history a lot recently. Our Mission President challenged us to do an hour each week, but I can honestly say I've done about 2-3 total hours! It's so much fun to do, but as my companion can testify I get super frustrated with it when I can't find a record for that person. Oh well!
I wanted to leave you all with a thought for this week. There is a quote that stood out to me this week by C.S. Lewis. It says, “[Some] say of some temporal suffering, ‘No future bliss can make up for it,’ not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory. … The Blessed will say, ‘We have never lived anywhere except in Heaven.’” I've learned this week that when that temporal suffering comes (and it will come) you don't have to suffer. Trials will come and you will experience things that will make life hard, but you can choose how to react to the situation. You can choose to act and remember eternal truths that you knew before or to react and forget about those truths. You can choose joy!
There is a scripture in the Book of Mormon that talks about that exact concept. It says, "Wherefore, men are free according to the flesh; and all things are given them which are expedient unto man. And they are free to choose . . . Adam fell that men might be; and men are, that they might have joy."
Notice the word might at the end? That word means the possibility of joy. Not the assurance of joy, but the possibility. You have to choose to have joy! I can testify that choosing joy works. It's going to be hard, but we can all do hard things! And nothing, nothing is impossible with Christ by our side!
I love you all and miss you so much!
Sister Gibb
Pictures:
Me
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