One of my former companions who completed her mission last February, came back to visit and took us to lunch! It was fun to see Kendal (haha i will never call you "Kendal" in person. You will always be Sister Semones to me..)
Yesterday we were teaching an investigator about the Ten Commandments. We were going through them all and she had a lot of questions about some of the points. We came to the commandment, Thou shall not kill. I asked her if in her past she had a problem with this point. She then explained to us that sometimes she kills mosquitoes, but never kills spiders. I totally lost it....couldn't stop laughing!!! We told her that it was okay to kill mosquitoes because they are one of the worst things ever created and she's also allowed to kill spiders because they aren't far behind. She told us she just feels too bad to kills spiders. HA!! She has a much kinder heart than I .... But dont worry, we cleared things up with her.
We went to another interesting lesson with a recent convert who is also less active. In the lesson we reviewed the 2nd lesson wich is over the Plan of Salvation. When we started teaching about the Kingdoms of Heaven. I asked her which one she wanted to go to and she told us, "the 2nd kingdom because if you go to the first kingdom you have to be perfect and not have sinned." She then said, "I try so hard but sometimes I get mad at my son because he does dumb things and I can't help it. I don't want to disappoint myself so I juist want to go to the second kingdom." (NOOOOOO) We then reviewed more in depth the Atonement and how we are able to go to Heaven and be in the presences of our amazing and perfect Heavenly Father because of Jesus Christ and his infinite Atonement! Because we are human, we are all going to mess up occasionally. The Lord knew we would. We all sometimes act inappropriate and do wrong. These actions are called mistakes. BUT, we can always repent and change our attitude and desires to strive to be a little better every day. All of us can make it back to Heaven and live in the Celestial Kingdom with God if we follow the example of Chirst. All we have to do is receive baptism, strive to repent and try a little harder every day, and partake of the sacrament on Sunday. I am so thankful for our loving and mericful God that has provided a way for all of us to make it back to him.
For April Fools we had a meeting with President to talk about our mission. The AP's were also there. We all dressed up like President. It might not be as funny for you guys but President and Sister Christensen got a real kick out of it!
Stay tuned for next week's letter.... there are going to be some FUNNY looking pictures in my email. You won't want to miss... It will be major blackmail on me for the future... You have no idea what I'm talking about... Just wait for next week.
Thank you fro all your love and support. I often feel them from way over here on the other side of the world!
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