What Do You Pray For?

Holã everyone! This week has been awesome! It was the first week of the transfer this week and it was a pretty good week. We had E come to church and she was taught the last part of the Plan of Salvation! She was so excited about baptisms for the dead. We also got in contact with N and he was really happy to see us. He is doing really good and was excited to learn about Family History. He doesn't know a ton about his family so he is looking forward to learning more!

But this week I had a lot of personal growth things happen. I had some experiences with prayer that reminded me that "God will give liberally to him that asketh. Yeah, ... If I ask not amiss." (2 Nephi 4:35) I had been praying that something would change my situation, not that I would change. And because of that, I wasn't getting answers - or at least I wasn't acknowledging the answers I was receiving.

This reminds me of how each of our earthly and mortal perspectives at some point and time will be different than God's eternal perspective. My perspective on my situation was "take this away from me, I don't want to feel this way." But God's perspective was, "Have patience and turn to me. This experience will be but a moment and will help you to develop divine attributes like Charity, Love, Forgiveness, and Faith." I became my own stumbling block. That was really hard to realize because I became my own worst enemy in that situation. I was refusing to change because I was so sure that I was right.

Is there something in our life that God is trying to help you see what He sees? If you don't know, I encourage you to pray about it, because He knows and will tell you. You just have to be willing to listen differently than before.

I know that this is true. I know that we are prideful human beings, but God has provided us a way to learn to develop humility and love and all the things we need to become more like Him and His Son. I know that way is through the Atonement and that gives us hope for a better way of living and being. I love this Gospel and I love God and His Son.

I love you all!

Sister Gibb

Ps. Sorry this is late, I had a really busy day today. Next week or the next week after that will be super short, because we want to go to see the Beach! 🌊 ❤

Pictures:
We went down to visit a member and it was so gorgeous. Turns out the member moved, but oh well. We got to see the scenery and horses instead! 😍 It really is beautiful out here.

8. Shrimp was on sale this week and so we each got a bag. I didn't realize how easy it was to cook.

9. The Sisters had birthdays this week and so we celebrated their birthdays today!

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