Thank you mom and Kristen for sending me your favorite scriptures! As for
the rest of you, don't worry, the Atonement is real and there is still time for
repentance :) I would exhort y'all to look up Alma 13:27 and ponder upon his
teachings!
Now onto life in the south! Things are continuing to go well here in
Alexandria and Pineville! It was a crazy week filled with meetings and planning
and A LOT of driving!! We had our mission leadership council in Baton Rouge on
Wednesday and that was good. It's a really cool opportunity to be in the
leadership during this time of transition with our new mission president because
we get to see him in a different light! It's obvious he has a great love for
missionary work and wants to do all he can to help the work expand here in the
south! We talked a lot about becoming and how we know we are acceptable before
he lord. He played a talk by President Eyring for us where he says that The Lord
is more concerned with who we are becoming verses the numbers we produce. One
missionary then talked about something he learned while on his mission. Each of
us are sent to an area to do a different work. It's like a building that we are
all being sent to work on. Some our sent to lay the foundation and then leAve,
others come to do the framework, some the mortar, you have the brick layers, the
painters, etc. each person comes to do a specific role without seeing the entire
building completed. We really liked this idea and wanted to take it back to our
zone so we put together an activity to teach this concept. We gathered a ton of
boxes from local groceries stores and then divided the zone into groups. Each
group had a specific assignment where they had to tape certain boxes together in
a specific fashion. Each group's assignment was unique. After all the groups
finished we took all their creations and organized them to create a replica of
the Salt Lake Temple! It was super cool and I sent pictures to dad's Picasa
account so y'all could see! After the meeting everyone kept saying it was heir
favorite zone meeting yet and you could tell it made an impact on them all to
see how their individual role was vital in creating the temple. It was
awesome!
In other exciting news: we got to go to the temple on Saturday
because Zoe and Tracy where doing baptisms for the first time and Miss Bobbie
was going through the endowment for the first time since returning back to
church and we had three other members going through for heir own endowment!!!!!
It was so cool and an amazing experience!!!! Especially being in the Celestial
room with my Alexandria ward family... It was awesome!!! Definitely the
highlight from the week!
Those are really the exciting things from the week. Zoe, Kim, and
Chrystal are all doing well. Kim's been out of town all week so we haven't been
able to meet with her, Zoe enjoyed baptisms and we are still working with
Chrystal to help her see why we need a Savior. We taught her the Plan of
Salvation on Friday and it went well. At the end she said she was starting to
question her own beliefs and committed to pray.... Which is a big deal for her!
Please keep her in your prayers :)
So as you can see life is grand here! We had some baby chicks hatch
this morning and we had banana pudd'in for dessert last night- I love the south
:) I thought I'ed leave you with a quote from bishop's granddaughter Emma. She's
five years old and full of attitude. She was throwing a fit about going to
primary yesterday so they brought her to her dad and this is what she told him,
"I don't need to go to primary, I already know about Jesus, I'm ready to get
baptized!!" :) I got a good kick out of that!
I love y'all and hope you have a fantastic week!!!!!!!
Love,
Sister Ogden
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