Skip to main content

No more Lying!!!

hiiii ! 

it was a good week:) 

☆ ward picnic for labor day, it was so much fun ! we went to Modjeska park for the whole day lol. 

☆ park day with the faletoi/schuster fam ! ahzira is my bff (the one also w the crumbl box lolol!) 

☆ this guys uncle is from the hawaii 5-0 show so he wanted to brag with his picture ! **below

☆ met the Tili family who asked if we could help their son, Ike, get baptized by October 2...yay ! 

☆ met with Cilla & went over her baptism things for September 25 :) 

☆ funny story . . . SO my soa & I (comp & I) were walking around temple grounds in Newport Beach which is covered by a different mission. (Yes we have permission to go there). We saw a lot of missionaries & we took our tags off because we didn't feel like talking with any of them (it was a ROUGH week for us to say the least) & yet somehow some elders managed to talk to my soa while I was looking at the temple. She walks away with them & I was like ?! Lol. Okay. && came to find out they ended up giving my soa a priesthood blessing. BUT after, she comes running up to me telling me the background of everything that she said to them "I'm a recent convert, we both live in Anaheim, you introduced me to the church, etc etc" && I was so confused but started laughing. THEN these elders find ME. And I try my best to tell my story in compatibility with hers . . . But then they ask if I wanted a priesthood blessing. I definitely needed it. BUT the temple grounds were getting too crowded so they asked if we could walk over to the stake center across the street, so we start walking....and their mission president & counselor are NOW JOINING THE BLESSING. The entire time I was just praying they wouldn't recognize me as the social media specialist who once upon a time helped them get started 🤣😭 but we go into a room with these men & they start asking me questions...but this blessing. It felt so different from the ones I have received thus far on my mission. If I am going to be completely honest, 9/10 my blessings are always "if you keep serving you will be blessed" but this one just felt so personal to me. These elders had no idea I was serving a mission, and this blessing applied so well to it & just life in general. In a way, it felt so good to just be known as myself rather rather a title!! It proved to me that God knows me. He is aware of me.


And yes, after I left...I prayed to God for forgiveness on lying lol🤣😭 but 2 things I learned from those men. 

☆ prayers of gratitude

☆ prayers of repentance

I need to be better at remembering what the Lord has done for me. I also need to show the Lord I want to be better by asking for His help more often through daily repentance. 


I hope you all had a wonderful week :) Tofa ! 


sister fin <3 








Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

I loved this week

This week was one for the books !! It was a crazy busy week & the days just flew by. I realized I don't share too much about my week or anything too spiritual lol but that can change !! So to start off, Monday night our entire mission got chastised by the president lol. Then Wednesday, Thursday, & Friday we had exchanges & Sunday we had a baptism with David !!   It was a week of A LOT of self reflection & seeing the areas I can improve . . . plus a lot of fun !!   This weeks exchanges I got to be with Sister Ratcliff, Sister Mattice, and Sister Ware !! I learned a lot from each sister & since it was a self reflecting week...I asked each sister & every return missionary member what they learned from their missions && believe it or not, every single one of them said they learned their identity as a daughter of God. It was tender to hear because I do forget my identity as Heavenly Fathers daughter, very often. Seeing the past experiences of my miss...
Post a Comment
Read more

Choose to Stay ...

hello my family and friends♡ I miss each one of you so much !! I love each of you as well. I have been searching every reason as to why I'm here. Why am I apart of this church? Why am I a member? Why do I decide to go to church every Sunday? Why did I decide to make covenant(s) with God? **Why do I choose to stay?** For me Ive noticed the gospel has given me structure. It is something that allows me to recognize there is greater potential in myself as well as in others. I feel like I have been stripped to the core by trials and its only been 2 months in my mission waaa hahah. Every aspect of my testimony is being tested and every detail of it is being questioned and tried by God to strengthen me and my testimony further. IT. IS. HARD. Despite these challenges and trials, I choose to stay because of the feelings I have received from God testifying of this gospel. No matter the experiences, no matter the trials, no matter the hurt, anger, shame, hatred, envy, and sorrow that we can e...
Post a Comment
Read more

Changes and miracles

good morning everyone!  It was a great week full of changes. ☆ The biggest change tho? Tahia became a member of the church of Jesus christ of latter day saints aka she was baptized !! it was a day we have been long awaiting for & I am so proud of her; she really is like a baby sister to me :')  ☆ we got put into a trio with Sister Bradfield from TX  ☆ and the Fourth of Julyyyy !! My favorite holiday; the best day ever....but not in CA. nothing will beat Soda lol....it was pretty sucky here. We spent the day with Tahia's baptism but then at night did nothing; my comps didn't wanna watch the fireworks so I sat in our somewhat open parking lot just listening to the fireworks that sounded like WWIII -- still a very good one <3 !!  I saw so many miracles this week and one being --> I was having a few tough days this last week. From Tuesday - today 🤣 lol But it was super tough for me and one day I stepped outside for my personal study & just cried my eyes ou...
Post a Comment
Read more