February 27, 2017

That is a great idea. Listening and reading along! That would really
help focus for sure. I also absolutely love 3 Nephi chapters 11-28.
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The Saviors ministry to the Nephites is so amazing and so filled with
the Spirit.
My testimony is strengthened every time I read the Book of Mormon, but
especially when I read from 3 Nephi my testimony of the Savior just
grows with every word practically.

This week as I was studying I learned some awesome things about
sacrifice! I was kind of studying it and pondering it, and then all
the talks in sacrament Meeting were about sacrifice, which was pretty
neat. I learned that sacrifice is one great way to show our faith.
That's why we must sacrifice a broken heart and a contrite spirit to
show faith in Jesus Christ sufficient unto repentance. It's hard to
bring a broken heart and a contrite spirit to the table! We are giving
up our will to God, which is truly the only thing we can sacrifice
that isn't God's to begin with! I love the gospel.

Right now we are showing the Mormon message "Sharing Your Beliefs" and
then we are inviting people to share the gospel through social media.
What we are trying to do is to have the family then pray to know who
they can share the gospel with on social media and then we help them
to do it right there! We try to help them to either directly facebook
message or text or email someone right then. That way we have
something to follow up on next time we see them! It's really cool and
something that our mission just learned.

Like I told dad, this has been a mission changing week for me. There's
been a lot of reflection on the first year of my mission and a lot of
pondering about where I want to be at the end of my mission. So now
I'm striving to truly repent and change day by day. Offer up my will
to God's day by day. The mission is definitely about God's will and
not mine!