Week 59

I LOVE GENERAL CONFERENCE! I pray that you all had the opportunity to watch General Conference, It is absolutely amazing to me that we have A prophet and apostles on the earth today!! I hope we can truly take the advice of Elder Neil L. Anderson and that we can take the time to read the conference messages and study them. I know that it is so true that in that Conference we heard the voice of the Lord, and that there is a treasure chest of Heavenly discovery awaiting us from Conference!! I am so thankful that Conference speaks to each one of us differently! My favorite talk this conference was Elder Hollands amazing talk!! My favorite part is when he said, "Beating up on ourselves will not make us the person God wants us to be. We live in a fallen world. we are fallen people. Here in mortality perfection is Pending. The Gospel is for the perfecting of Saints. Our only hope in pure perfection is in receiving it as a gift from heaven, we wont earn it!" I know that it is soo hard in the Gospel to recognize that perfection is impossible. I have been a missionary for a year now, and I am still so far from perfect! IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO BE PERFECT! I am so thankful that we have the Atonement of Jesus Christ so that we can work each day to be perfected. I know that we will never be perfect people, but we shouldn't beat up on ourselves, we should use the Atonement and work to overcome the natural man. 

    I truly know that the prophet and his apostles speak for the Lord!! I know that the Book of Mormon is true, and I am so thankful for the challenge we have to read it everyday! This week I will finish the Book of Mormon for the 5th time on my mission! I cannot testify enough of the power of the Book of Mormon. I know it is the word of God, and I encourage you all to continue to take President Monsons challenge! Not many things happened this week, we had exchanges and Sister Hooper came to our area with me, she is a sweetheart and a hard worker! And we also did a spa night last night!!Also, This week was also a week full of miracles! Monday night we had the opportunity to teach the Runyon Family the plan of Salvation. And Sister Runyons mom Shannon was there! She is a nonmember who moved into the ward, and when Sister Runyon her daughter testified of the power of the Plan of Salvation and Shannon was in tears. Then the next day Sister Runyon texted us and said that her mom told her last night that when we were teaching her that she had a vision of me and Sister Pelo baptizing her. And then for the Sunday Morning session we watched Conference at the Runyons and Shannon watched it with us!!! I know that Heavenly Father puts us in a specific place for a specific reason! One of my favorite scriptures is Doctrine and Covenants 100:4-6

 4 Therefore, I, the Lord, have suffered you to come unto this place; for thus it was expedient in me for the salvation of souls.

5 Therefore, verily I say unto you, lift up your voices unto this people; speak the thoughts that I shall put into your hearts, and you shall not be confounded before men;  6 For it shall be given you in the very hour, yea, in the very moment, what ye shall say.

I know that it was expedient in the lord that I am here in Columbine,, and I know that I am fulfilling my purpose in inviting others to come unto Christ. And it truly is a FULLNESS of Joy! I have never been happier, every time I testify and can share the unique message of the restoration to the world, my Joy truly grows more full! I LOVE THE GOSPEL!! I love the opportunity that I have to serve and to give this small amount of time to the lord! Les quiero!! I decided that I am going to try and switch Sister Pelo spots and have her be Hermana Tams and I am going to dye my hair dark and stay for a year and a half more, so see you then!!! 

Love, Hermana Tams☔🌸

FOTOS:

1.Watching General Conference with the Beals

2.Spa night picture

3. A cute thank you card we got from a widow in the ward!