Bună Bună!!
Highlights:
- Zone Conferences! Always so fun! Got to see all of the missionaries and its the best!!
- Carmen!! Had our first lesson with our friend Carmen this week and it was AMAZING!! The spirit was so strong and she is so prepared!! Can't wait to keep meeting with her!!
- Sora Isac! Got to see one my favorites this week! She always shows all her new projects and she is literally my inspiration 🤩 Her goal in life is to never stop learning and so she's constantly doing new things to push herself! So awesome!
- Familia Hyer!! Literally so awesome! They had us over for Sora Stark's birthday and it was a great way to spend our evening after the last zone conference #wewerepooped
- Games Night! The actual games and stuff were actually just alright it was kind of cold but then we decided to end early and clean the church. Then we went to the store to get some supplies and we ran into our friend Carmen! She asked us to come over to her house right then! So fun!!
Not-so-Highlights:
- Went inactive member finding and the only one we found was a member who says the have no connection with church whatsoever and they were not wanting to gain one either 😬
Funny:
- This isn't really that that funny, but for church our sunday school teacher didn't show up, so you know the automatic subs had to come in. We had been warned she might not come so we were asked to just look over the lesson. Well it ended up that Sora Reynolds and I had were the only ones who had looked at it so we went up to the stand and scrapped a lesson together on the spot. (With us trying not to laugh and whispering to each other trying not to have it be picked up on the mic 😂) It actually went pretty well but it just reminded us of our old Craiova days together trying to run a relief society class with our very little knowledge of Romanian, or basically wrestling a 9 year old to the ground for primary. Luckily now it was with adults and we actually kind of know romanian so a bit of a full circle moment.
Gând Spiritual:
- Cool insights I had from Zone Conference...
We read 3 Nephi 11 and were asked how the people grew there witness of the Savior.
First the people just heard the Saviors voice but the couldn't recognize whose it was.
Vs 3 "nevertheless, and notwithstanding it being a small voice it did pierce them that did hear to the center, insomuch that there was no part of their frame that it did not cause to quake; yea, it did pierce them to the very soul, and did cause their hearts to burn. 4) And it came to pass that again they heard the voice, and they understood it not."
I feel like this is a lot of people we meet. They understand this higher power, they know that someone maybe even God is aware of them, but they don't understand the fulness of it.
Then the Savior comes to the people and shows them who he is and tells them again.
"10) Behold, I am Jesus Christ, whom the prophets testified shall come into the world"
Now Jesus is not physically on the Earth today and so this is what we do as we "take his name upon us". We are asked to led people to him through all we do and say. This is what I do on the street everyday, maybe sometimes without realizing it, but always trying to point people to him.
And then after this the Savior invites them to come unto him and to gain a physical witness for themselves.
"14) Arise and come forth unto me, that ye may thrust your hands into my side, and also that ye may feel the prints of the nails in my hands and in my feet, that ye may know that I am the God of Israel, and the God of the whole earth, and have been slain for the sins of the world."
This is what we do when we find and teach people. We invite them to come have their own personal witness of the Savior through covenants. It reminds me of another quote I believed I shared in a past email.
"Covenants are the shape of God's embrace"
- Elder Robert M. Daines
As we make covenants we experience this same witness that these Nephites did. We can come to know Jesus. And I testify to you that he wants you to know him! As we do we have greater access to his power, knowledge and love.
I invite you to continue to gain your personal witness of Christ and to feel his love more present in your life.
Vă Iubesc!!
Sora Hansen
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