February
17, 2014
Longmont,
CO
A funny
thing about candy. Do you (family) remember years ago when we got those
many boxes of jolly ranchers and ate some of them, but the fire ones are
probably still sitting in our food storage closet? Well, on Sunday in
Relief Society they had little chocolates, and I thought, nah I won't have one
today, I have already eaten too much sugar. So the sweet sister sitting
next to me, thinking I just don't like chocolate but not wanting me to be left
out, produces for me a fire jolly rancher. Apparently eating two mints
this week wasn't enough!
Sister
Carbno and I are not very good at asking for referrals, so we came up with a
plan of how to motivate ourselves. If Sister Carbno doesn't ask for one
during the day, we go running an extra day in the week. If I don't ask
for one during the day, I eat two mints during our daily planning :P Only
once. Never again.
Good
news! We finally had a lesson with B who we have been setting
appointments with for...well since Sister Carbno got here. Of course,
this happened on the day that we planned for a
5-minute-you-at-least-owe-us-that-much lesson. Good thing we had
previously planned such good lessons ;) She is excited to read the Book of
Mormon again and we are excited to maybe have our second lesson come easier
than the first!
We had a
zone meeting instead of district meeting last week, and President Brown made an
appearance! We also had a trainer's meeting with him this week, and on
the night in between I had a dream in which we were having a conference and the
alarm interrupted President Brown's training...which I actually wrote something
down from when I woke up because it was really inspired ;)
A scripture
President Brown shared at both trainings (but not in the dream) was Alma 23:6-8
(Thanks to the Lindes and Jehkiah who I got a card from this week!
Alyssa, this is one of my favorite scriptures). We had a great discussion
about teaching with converting power, the strength of our own conversion, how
they never fell away, etc. And then he asked the question, who benefited
the most from all of these things?
The
missionaries?
The people
of Anti-Nephi-Lehi?
Those who
later joined them because they were a peaceful people?
All of
them were blessed, it is true. But there is a group who, because of the
ANLs, had great faith in God, such that they were protected, they were
obedient, they protected their families. The children of these
people were blessed the most. These are the parents of the Stripling
Warriors, those Sons of Helaman who were miracles and received miracles by
their faith. The gospel blesses families
I am so
grateful to be the product of faithful parents, and look forward to seeing the
blessings in the family which my sister is starting and how great of a mom she
is going to be :) (just don't forget what we practiced about what happens to
the fish!) Welcome to the world Eden ;) It can seem like a scary place, but
there is safety here. With your family, both heavenly and mortal :)
love,
Sister Emily DeFord
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| Eden Lynn born 2/11/14 |
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