Hey Mom!!!
How are you??? I hope you enjoy San Francisco! What were some of your favorite talks from Conference? I'm so excited for Amy to get married this week. I got her invitation and it is really cute! I love it!! What temple does your presidency go to?
Conference was amazing!!! I loved every bit of it! I had so many questions that were answered. It was wonderful! I wish I had time to talk about all of my favorite talks but I don't so I'll talk about a couple of my favorites. President Uchtdorf's was so good.I loved how he said, "Doubt your doubts before you doubt your faith." I know that if we feed our faith our doubts will starve to death. There will be no room for doubts. We have an investigator that this talk was perfect for. She won't come to church yet but this talk will help her I think realize just how amazing the Gospel and the church is. Elder Holland's talk was perfect for one of our other investigators. She struggles with major depression and she heard this talk. She loved it!!! I know that it will help her. I loved President Eyring's talk. I loved the part where he quoted George Q. Cannon about there not being one of us that God has not tried to save. That is so true. God wants all of His children to come back to Him. I need to work harder to find more of God's children and help bring them back to Him.
Some of the themes of Conference that I noticed were being equally yoked with the members, living the first two greatest commandments (Matthew 22:35-40), and families. I loved President Monson's talk!!!! We all face challenges and life isn't always easy. I loved the poem that he shared about good timber not growing strong without storms. That is so true!!! I know that I have grown the most during hard times. We are given trials to make us be the people that God needs us to be. During his talk I was thinking, "Who do I know that has gone through many problems and has stayed strong during those problems?" There were a lot of wonderful people that went through my mind. I want to be more like Job. He stayed very strong through all of his trials. I know that I can say with boldness, "I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God." Job 19:25. I know it is because of my challenges that I have grown closer to my Savior. There is always room for me to grow closer. I know that I have never felt my Savior closer than on my mission. It has definitely been a huge growth period for me! I have loved every minute of being able to forget myself and just go to work.
How are you??? I hope you enjoy San Francisco! What were some of your favorite talks from Conference? I'm so excited for Amy to get married this week. I got her invitation and it is really cute! I love it!! What temple does your presidency go to?
Conference was amazing!!! I loved every bit of it! I had so many questions that were answered. It was wonderful! I wish I had time to talk about all of my favorite talks but I don't so I'll talk about a couple of my favorites. President Uchtdorf's was so good.I loved how he said, "Doubt your doubts before you doubt your faith." I know that if we feed our faith our doubts will starve to death. There will be no room for doubts. We have an investigator that this talk was perfect for. She won't come to church yet but this talk will help her I think realize just how amazing the Gospel and the church is. Elder Holland's talk was perfect for one of our other investigators. She struggles with major depression and she heard this talk. She loved it!!! I know that it will help her. I loved President Eyring's talk. I loved the part where he quoted George Q. Cannon about there not being one of us that God has not tried to save. That is so true. God wants all of His children to come back to Him. I need to work harder to find more of God's children and help bring them back to Him.
Some of the themes of Conference that I noticed were being equally yoked with the members, living the first two greatest commandments (Matthew 22:35-40), and families. I loved President Monson's talk!!!! We all face challenges and life isn't always easy. I loved the poem that he shared about good timber not growing strong without storms. That is so true!!! I know that I have grown the most during hard times. We are given trials to make us be the people that God needs us to be. During his talk I was thinking, "Who do I know that has gone through many problems and has stayed strong during those problems?" There were a lot of wonderful people that went through my mind. I want to be more like Job. He stayed very strong through all of his trials. I know that I can say with boldness, "I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God." Job 19:25. I know it is because of my challenges that I have grown closer to my Savior. There is always room for me to grow closer. I know that I have never felt my Savior closer than on my mission. It has definitely been a huge growth period for me! I have loved every minute of being able to forget myself and just go to work.
This week has been great! I had one of the sisters from Yarmouth with me. My companion was in Yarmouth on exchange. Sister Brown was here on exchange. Sister Brown and I were in the same ward up in Logan. We didn't know each other very well in Logan but we are getting to know each other now. She is so excited to be here doing missionary work. I love going on exchanges because I feel like I learn so much from the sisters that I am serving with. We taught English for the second time this week. It went well. The people that are coming want to practice more conversational things. We are going to do that. The people that come are so eager to learn and it is so exciting to be able to teach them how to communicate in English. I saw President Stoker this week. He counseled us on how the Shepherd knows His sheep. It is so true!! Christ knows each one of us. Do we recognize when He calls us?? It really made me think about how much I really know my Savior.
I have studied the heart some more. I realized how important it is for us to give the Lord our whole heart. In D&C 64:22 it says, "And after that day, I, the Lord, will not hold any guilty that shall go with an open heart up to the land of Zion; for I, the Lord, require the hearts of the children of men." We cannot give Him part of our hearts. We must give him all of our desires. He will guide us in the direction that is best because He knows exactly what we need. How can we more fully give our hearts to the Lord? Have a great week!! Give Amy a hug for me this week!! I'm so happy for her!! I love you!
Love,
Sister Griffin
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