Okay
so it started on Sunday when we were able to watch and participate in
the Ogden Temple Dedication. That was seriously the coolest thing I
have ever seen. I have never seen a dedication before so watching it
was really cool. I had no idea the process for dedicating temple was.
I loved all the talks but my favorite part was when we sang Spirit of
God. It brought all theses good memories of the back east trip when
we were at the Kirkland Temple and it was just a reaffirmation that I
know that Joseph Smith was a prophet called of God and that he did
see Heavenly Father and our Savior. He did so much work for the
church to be restored and I am so grateful for the knowledge that I
have of this church.
Then
on Tuesday we had our devotional like every week but guess who came
this time.... ELDER M. RUSSEL BALLARD!! And for this devotional I
sang in the choir... Yes, you heard that correctly, I willingly
volunteered myself to sing. We sang Joseph's First Prayer and it was
arranged so differently. It was very spiritual. Elder Ballard said
that is the best arrangement of that song that he has ever heard. I
bet he was just being nice but it is nice to be appreciated :) His
talk was seriously sooo amazing!! He talk about a lot of different
things like:
How
the Gospel is about Families
WE
(all) are servants and we are to build of the Kingdom of God
Always
have the spirit with you
Come
to know the scriptures
Setting
Goals
Get
Up and WORK, you are still alive make your life worth something
Ahh..
he talk about soo much... Definitely my two favorite things he
questioned us and made me really think and I ask you to do the same
is:
How
much do I love the Lord?
How
precious is one Soul?
After
every devotional we have a District meeting discussing the things we
have learned and felt. And this was propably the most spiritual
meeting. Not gonna lie, I ended up bawling while I was talking
because it was seriously so strong. So let me just tell you what
happened first. Sister Moyer ( a sister in my district) started
talking about how she loves the Lord and what would have been going
through his head after he just suffered all the sins of the world.
What do you think he was thinking as he was be spit upon, whipped,
mocked, and then crucified on the cross? Love. "Father forgive
them, for they know not of what they do." And that seriously hit
me hard and I was all fine and I raise my hand to comment and as I
began to speak I could feel the tear coming on and if you know me you
know that I don't handle crying in front of people well so I started
to talk to myself and prep myself and like waving at my face to stop
crying. It just got worse. Anyways, I don't even remember what I said
and I didn't know what I was saying at the time, but my testimony has
grown for the love of my Savior.
Elder
Ballard talked a lot about the worth of souls and what he suffered
for us and how selfish is it to keep it from others.
So
this week was spirtually good one to say the least!
사랑합니다
레빗
자매 (pretty
sure thats how you spell Leavitt)
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