May 16, 2017 "Meetings, Mother's Day. . . Missionary Work!"

Meetings, Mother’s Day, … Missionary Work!

Family!! Hope all you wonderful women had an amazing mothers day! 

Since I just talked to you yesterday this will be a little shorter, but for those friends whom I did not see.. here is a quick run down of our week!! 

Basically we had meetings the entire week. 

Wednesday was MLC - mission leadership counsel. Aka a 7 hour meeting where all the sister leaders and Zone leaders come together and counsel and are trained about how to help the mission. It was a spiritual feast. 

President Vest called at 10:17 Monday night to ask sister rice and I if we would lead a 20 min discussion about a talk on Hope the mission has been studying. The next day we planned it all out and then we were like ok well let's go over to Bishop tonight to see if he has any other wisdom to add about it. Bishop Gallup is like a doctrinal mastermind. And he rebuked us and basically helped us realize that everything we thought about hope was wrong. He blew our minds. So we went home and threw everything we had planned out the window and started from scratch. Hah. Yeah no anxiety over that at all. 

Hahah we were super nervous but it ended up turning out, actually really awesome! We blew everyone's minds and impressed even the most doctrinally sound elders. So we were proud of ourselves. 

MLC was so cool though. We all counseled about how we could help the missionaries and discussed what things needed to be implemented in the mission. 

Something that was focused on a ton was the definition of what it truly means to be effective. And the need for being motivated by charity. 

These are things I haven't been the best with my whole mission, so it really helped me to see that the goal is to work smarter not harder - to really be purpose led. 

Thursday we had both Jail Training meeting and District meeting back to back. 

Then Friday we just had weekly Planning and then interviews like the whole day. 

Hahah scheduling everything was super crazy though. This whole week we have had all these scheduling issues. Like last night, we had this whole dinner fiasco, and long story short we ended up having 3 dinners back to back to back and so we have leftovers to last us the next week and a half. Lol. 

Interviews with President and Sister Vest definitely made my week though. 

Ahhh I love them SO MUCH. President got emotional at MLC when he was sharing about an RM who appreciated the letters President would still send to him even though home, because he had be struggling. President then told us how his goal is not to help us become good missionaries. His purpose and goal is to do everything he can to help the doctrine of Christ sink deep into our hearts and souls. Because missions will end. And life will go on. But if we have that engraved within ourselves, we will receive eternal life. He bore such powerful testimony of that and spoke with such love. 

So as I spoke with him on Friday I just cried and cried. (Typical me, yes I know haha) 

This was our last official interview we would have with them because they will be heading home to Texas in mid June. :,( 

President has a way of telling me exactly what I need to hear. 

He has seen me go through so much through the rollercoaster that has been my mission. And I cannot express how his love and guidance has helped me through. 

The wisdom that he and Sister Vest shared with me, that I so needed, I want to share with you. 

• Remember who you truly are. You are a divine child of the most powerful infinite Being. He knows you and He loves you. Keep that perspective, and let that knowledge give you confidence. 
• Let go of the past mistakes or past burdens. Let the Savior take it from you, and learn to humble yourself. Because humility + faith = weakness ➡️ strength. (Ether 12:27) 
• Don't take yourself so doggone seriously! 
• Serve and love with your whole heart. 

I have found so much more joy and peace as I have done this even just the past few days. I testify that when we pray for charity, He fills our hearts. When we cry out, He is there. When we need help, He sends it. When we focus on Christ, we see Him more. When we serve as He would, we feel His joy. 

I love being a missionary. I love Jesus. I love His gospel. And I love that I am a daughter of God. 

 Sister Bleak :) 

Also read "Settle This in your Hearts" Neal a maxwell OCT 1992

Pics: 

District lunch

Comp pics on Mother's Day 

Skyping my wonderful family 

Rip bc Dallin leaves for his mission in a month!! 

Perks of being a missionary in Missouri. Spent the whole day yesterday
amidst the beauty of the countryside of Missoura and got to go on a
church history tour with the Zone!! Swapped half pdays to get to go!
Sooo awesome!

Eight witnesses monument

Far west