H E L L O ⚓️
It's been a great week but also I felt like it blurred all together.
Ha I don't really remember much so this email will probably be super lame but oh well, lol.
Wednesday we went to the temple with Tyler, Sister Miller, and Brother Hansen. It was such an incredible experience to watch Tyler enter the temple for the first time and to do family names. Tyler was beaming the entire time and grinning from ear to ear. A flood of memories from doing youth baptisms came back to memory and as I sat in the temple, I reflected on the joy this gospel has brought me. Though I didn't always have the strongest testimony or easy road, I do know that it blessed my life 100% of the time.
K is doing great! We taught him about the Word of Wisdom and he didn't really want to give up coffee. The next day we went by for a lesson and asked about the word of wisdom...he had no idea what that was...I was like, "oh, man..." so I asked about the coffee drinking and he said, "I stopped drinking it. You told me not to do it and that it was bad so I stopped!" I literally screamed with joy. He thought that was sweet ☺️ We will have to move his baptismal date thought because he hasn't come to church. But Saturday he sweared to God over the phone he would go next week...so hopefully he keeps that promise.
The other day I told him what we were going to talk about and that we would start with a prayer....he then went "I made a covenant with God last night in my prayer that I would be completely honest so I need to be honest with you." That made me nervous...he then said, "I have absolutely no idea what you just said. Could you repeat that?" Lol.
Love the old man. Grandpa K is my fav. ☺️
Ch is doing great! Not coming to church yet but we will keep working. He likes to tell a lot of stories so teaching him can be interesting lol.
E fell off the earth...super depressing ):
I don't think I've mentioned O and V. V has been going to church for the past 30 yrs and lives all the commandments but won't be baptized. We've been working with him and his wife a lot. The bishop and his member friend told us to keep working so we do. We have seen little steps of success but that's more than the steps that have been made in like the last year so that's good!
S is doing pretty good. He has a lot of questions about the world that prevent him from building faith but we've seen a change and we constantly meet people who bring him up or members that work out with him at a gym bring him up so we know we need to continue to meet!
As I studied the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5, the phrase "blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted" stuck out to me. I always took that as the problem going away BUT nowhere in the phrase does it say that trial or problem would be taken away. Simply, it shared that we would be comforted. It is essential to face problems and solve them while we walk this mortal journey. The Lord intended for that to be a part of our training in this life to help us prepare for the next phase of our eternal existence. An unknown author said, "If all suffering and unhappiness could be removed from our lives, what kind of people would we be? I believe it would be impossible to produce strong, noble, generous, compassionate human beings if suffering were eliminated from our lives." We are given trials and problems to become refined in the hands of the Master. We need not feel alone, for the Savior is there. That is one of the many purposes of the Atonement; to find comfort and healing amidst trial.
God is GOOD. The church is true and will always be true despite the imperfect people God works through. No one is perfect except for our Savior and Redeemer, Jesus Christ. He has established His church today so we could receive the saving ordinances by the priesthood power.
Love one another as Jesus loves you because He does. The Book of Mormon is the word of God and it invites all to come unto Christ. I say these things in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen. Until next Monday, thanks for the love and support!
XOXO,
Sister Detamore
1-2. TEMPLE
3. Me, sister Clark, Sister Scott (my old comp and Sister Clarks MTC comp), and Sister Hall (sister Scott is training her and I knew her before the mission! Small world)
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