Ah, another Great Change!

The time came again!! Yes 6 weeks, a phone call all us missionaries wait to get! The 6th week of the transfer is always crazy, it seems to be all we talk about and try to guess where everyone is going. Then Friday comes, the whole day we have butterflies in our stomach and just wait for Friday to end so that we can know whether we are staying or going. Then Saturday comes.. We await the phone call, cant seem to do anything. We cant sleep, cant study, cant eat.. Oh intense right? Ya well that's how it is for all of us missionaries..
Now, the change..

Santa Rosa was a GREAT area.. There were so many things that I learned, about the gospel and about myself. I'm grateful for the companion (friend) that I was able to serve with to help me with my struggles and helped me to become a better disciple of Christ.

I have only been here in Fairfield a few days and I'm already starting to love it.
Sometimes I think why things have to change.. Why do we have to get transferred from place to place and be with different companions?
I love what Sister Marjorie Pay Hinckley says, "Everything you are learning now is preparing you for something else."
I know this statement to be true.. Everything that I have learned in an area, I take it with me and apply it to what I need to.
Kinda like our purpose of why we are here on earth. It says in the scriptures that everything we learn here we take it into heaven with us, and apply those things when we get there.

I have to remind myself everyday that I will always learn something new, I will never know everything.

I am grateful for the Spirit helping to recognize what things in me and my life that I need to change. I know that I wouldn't be able to be a better disciple of Christ if it weren't for the different areas and companions! I'm so happy the Lord gives us So many opportunities to change and become the person that He knows and wants us to become! 
Remember who you are and what you stand for!

*!!Happy Birthday Savannah!!*

Conference=Amazing! Indeed this General Conference was just what I needed to hear.

One talk in particular really touched my heart and brought tears to my eyes. Sister Jean A. Stevens, spoke on children. She spoke on how little children are "humble and faithful." She said,"Our children are the key to helping us be more like Christ.. They come to us with believing hearts. They are often the first to love and the first to forgive." She explained to us the importance it is to be as a little child.

My dear sister just turned 18 on Friday. Yes, indeed her birthday is on April Fools Day. Even tho she is 18, she is still like a child. My sister has slight aspergers syndrome, a form of autistic behavior. She continues to live a everyday high school life. She drives (my car) haha, she goes to dances and continues with everyday life.

She is a great example on how to be Christlike. No, she isn't perfect, BUT she always is that "first to love and the first to forgive."

When we were younger, we did alot of things together. Of course, like all siblings do we would fight. I remember getting really mad at her one time (when I was little) and yelling at her, and then 2 seconds later I asked her for candy. She didn't say no, she gave me candy. 

I don't know how, but she always had candy stored somewhere in our room. 

Mosiah 3:19 reminds me of my sister,"..putteth off the natural man...and becometh as a child, submissive, meek, humble, patient, full of love, willing to submit to all things which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon him, even as a child doth submit to His father."

She is willing to put off the "natural man" and do what the Lord will have her do. I don't even think she realizes it. Its almost like its just natural for her, like that's what its about. Isn't that how it is supposed to be?
I'm grateful for my younger sister, and for her Christlike attributes that she shows. I love her dearly and I do see and appreciate her for who she is.

I hope you had a very Happy Birthday Vannie. I know that Heavenly Father loves you and that He is proud of you! I'm happy your staying strong through these awesome teenage days. I love you and miss your face! Keep the Faith, and Keep smiling!

We are all daughters of Our Heavenly Father who loves us and we love Him.

Remember who you are and what you stand for!

Bad Dreams, or Good Dreams?

There have been some nights that I have had some pretty crazy dreams. No, not like a Dr. Seuss wonderland, but actually really pretty intense scary dreams. I talked about it with some other missionaries and expressed to them that I shouldn't be having dreams like this. I study the scriptures everyday and I pray everyday so why am I having dreams like this.

My life back home, before the mission, I watched alot of scary movies. Not going to lie, I like scary movies ALOT. I didn't watch like super crazy scary movies but there were some that were a little disturbing and I know didn't invite the spirit.

I've felt like its all catching up to me. The movies that I watched that didn't disturb me, are now starting to bother me.
I really like scary movies, so I kinda pondered on what the big deal was. I came across an article, "Its Only Violence". Amazing talk and was looking for someone else, but I found that it really helped me out alot. Something it said in the talk pretty much helped me, "they offend the Spirit and make you less able to respond to others in a sensitive, caring way. They contradict the Savior's message of love for one another."
I never thought of that before, "they contradict the Savior's message to love for one another." That's what this gospel is and brings to others. It is that Christlike love for everyone. Watching these things doesn't show the love, the Christlike love.  

It is going to be a hard sacrifice for me, but I know that it is important to the Lord. I wanna be able to have good dreams instead of the scary ones that I have been having.

I want to invite others to also think of this and read this talk. I know it will bless all of our lives and we will be able to be sensitive to the spirit and to Gods love for all of His children.
Remember who you are and what you stand for!