Hi!
This week Doterra had a convention in Salt Lake and so the Square smelled like lavender allllll week. Not that I can complain, they have
me sold on the product. When I get home, I will definitely be investing in
these oils sent from heaven. These ladies told us they'd send us a starter
kit!!! Hopefully they follow through....anyways, we met some of the sweetest
people on the Square.
What they do is actually really similar to missionary
work and so we were able to relate with a lot of the ladies. All of them have
stories about why they use the oils. Mainly, it's because of health. They said
that the essential oils make them feel better and they want other people who
are going through physical or mental pain, to be free from that. It was a
perfect way to bridge to Jesus Christ and how through him, we can have peace
that not only lasts for this time, but for all eternity (it's even better than
the oils. haha).
The reason I'm telling you about Doterra is because we had
Doterra miracles! We met this lady who was from the East coast and she had a
friend in her oil group who's a member. Her friend asked if we would take them
through God's Plan (the 12-minute movie we show all about eternal families and
the temple) and so we did.
At the end of the movie we talked about God's love
and about the authority to bind on earth and to bind in heaven has been
restored. The lady who wasn't a member all of a sudden was like, "Can I
keep in touch with you girls? Like, do you have Facebook or a cell phone or
email or anything?" I think my mouth literally dropped and both Sister
Revoredo and I were like,"yes of course! We do all our teaching over the
phone anyways!" It was a huge miracle because we hadn't been able to get a
member present all week and so we got our member present lesson and found a new
investigator.
Another huge highlight this week was Russell M. Nelson came
and spoke to our mission on Friday morning. No one had any idea he would come
and we just got a text during companionship study that everyone needed to be on
Temple Square in 20 minutes and to leave any assignment we had. He shook
everyone's hand and spoke to us for about an hour and a half.
I walked
away knowing with my whole heart that there is a living prophet on the earth
and living apostles whom Christ directs. This is Christ's living church. I've
never felt the spirit in the way I did that morning. It was like pure amazement
and I just felt the love of God more than I ever have. I've had a testimony of
course that there are 12 modern apostles and a prophet on the earth, but this
just solidified everything. It was incredible.
Another cool little miracle was Simone. About 3 weeks ago
Sister Revoredo and I were talking to these RMs who served in Italy and we
asked them if they had anyone in Italy that we could teach.
One of the guys
said he did and he told us a little bit about Simone. He had a baptismal date
and wants to be baptized but his parents won't allow him to be baptized until
he's 18. Sister Revoredo and I were like, "Well, we can't teach him if his
parents aren't OK with it!" But we called Simone anyways just to examine the
situation and see if we could help in any way. So, we were only able to talk to
him once and then he hadn't answered the phone since. Welll, 2 days ago Sister
Revoredo took an Italian chat from mormon.org
and it was a man named Tom.
As she kept talking to him, he told us his real
name was SIMONE!!! The same one we had spoken with 3 weeks earlier and hadn't
heard from since. So we were able to talk to him and figure more about his
situation and it turns out his parents are fine with him meeting with
missionaries, they just don't want him to be baptized yet. It was just so meant
to be and now we're in contact with him after these weeks of not knowing how to
help him.
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One last little thing, yesterday in personal study I was
thinking about the temple. I was having this little internal conversation with
myself because I realized that I don't explain the temple well enough.
We
always tell people how the pioneers sacrificed everything to come here and to
build a temple but I don't think I help people understand how important the
temple really is. Obviously, we don't explain what happens in the temple in
detail because it's so sacred, but I was just trying to figure out how I can
better explain how important and special it is.
After personal study I told my
companion my struggle and she was like, "Sister Helton, what does the temple
mean to you?" Then I almost started crying and I told her and she was
like, "Share that with people."
So, I want to invite all of you to
just think about what the temple means to you and write it down. Sometimes it's
really nice to just think about the why of things.
Love you all! Hope you have the best week.
Sister Helton
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