This week was great. Every week is great. Let’s be real, we are missionaries.
M - Pday - We went to Pday at Pava in Temecula. It was fun! We were played at the Pava ward.
We went to Red Robin dinner on Grammy. Grammy is an amazing spitfire. This is the third time she has had breast cancer come back. She decided not to treat it this time but is just waiting it out. She called dinner her Christmas present. We delivered the cookies we made with lemons. We ding dong ditched with an invite to our Easter meeting to our friends and people with interest and people we used to teach and less active members.
T- We drove to Vista for our second training follow up meeting. It is a really good thing we have going on. It is really fun and we get to see all of our homies. The new missionaries teach us. They taught us the gospel of Jesus Christ and one of the commandments. It is really cool to see how much each of them are growing individually and practice and learn from each other. We got to learn a lot from our President.
He always plays the video “Missionary Work and the Atonement” it is so beautiful. I love it. Missionary work isn’t the easiest. President Eyring and Elder Holland talk about work in the church in general. Elder Holland reminds us that we should not expect missionary work to be easy because Jesus Christ’s life was not easy. When we are ridiculed and spit upon we are standing with the best. I love missionary work, I love it. We went to the Eagleston’s. She served her mission in the Caribbean. They are so cool. We talked to them about the different roles at the council in heaven. It was a great conversation.
W - District council was all about using the Book of Mormon to dispel concerns. We made lists of people’s concerns like the way we are baptized or having a prophet today or having more scripture than the bible. We use the Book of Mormon to find answers and then when they come to know the Book of Mormon is true, all those other concerns go away. We got to meet the Riverside housing coordinator at our apartment which was weird to know our missions will be soon be mixed. They had great things to say about the president. We did our extra study. We have all the points written on a mini soccer ball and toss it to each other. Wherever our right pointer finger touches we talk about that point.
Th - We went to visit Anne. She went to a catholic religious conference and heard another woman talking about us and what we believe. She knew it was false but did not know how to defend us. She called us and wanted to learn more, she was taking notes all through it so she could stand up for us. So, we are now teaching Anne again. We are interested to see how this is going to go. She is so cool! I love Anne.
We went to “To the Rescue” night and went with Sister Nalan to La Cresta. The lady we went to visit did not answer but there was a little star on our map. We decided to go see who lived there. Dory answered and let us in. She is a returning member and her husband is not a member. She goes for cancer treatment, chemotherapy, every three weeks. We were happy to get to know her. We then went to the Hadfield’s, a beautiful family, and shared the Because of Him video.
We went to “Cultivating Inclusion” and replanted little tomato plants and weeded furrows with the special needs kids. I love Cultivating Inclusion. We celebrated Sister Stoddard’s year mark which also means Sister Miles, my baby, has been here a year! Happy Birthday, I love you too so so much and I am so proud of the things I have seen you do.
We had a member lesson with Sister Rushton, our bishop’s wife, who used to be Jewish. We talked about the things we know because of the Book of Mormon. I love that woman. She is my favorite.
F - We biked and visited a lot of our potentials and referrals and invited a lot of people to church. I love biking. We knocked on Bruce and Leah’s door. We talked to Leah a good hour and invited them to come to church. It was a good day of work. We tracted, I love tracting. We went to the Henry’s and shared the Because of Him video. Brother Henry who is a convert of 5 years started crying and committed to make changes to make his life happier. They are super cool. I love them.
We are singing for zone conference, so we practiced.
S - We went to visit Carlyn who we tracted into. She said, “OK, for all the years I have talked to you missionaries every one of you has asked if you can do something to help me and I have never allowed you to help. But I need your help today.” We helped her do her spring cleaning. She got in a car accident about three years ago and has not been able to deep clean her house. She is super cool! I love her so much. We spent a long time that day cleaning with Carlyn. We roasted hot dogs and smores with the Wrights and then went for our song practice. Then I fixed Sister Budnah’s tire on her bike. It was a good day. Every day is a good day. It has been a happy week.
Sunday - Easter! I just love Easter.
This is the second Easter I have had on my mission. I love it! I love how everything is focused on the Savior. I think we could do better with that. At church, it was so crazy. It was beautiful with amazing talks and musical numbers. We had so many people there. They opened up both overflows and the whole gym was filled. That sounds lame to my Alpine Utah people because every Sunday is like that but it is not like that here. We went into second hour in the primary where there testimonies are so pure and they love Jesus Christ. They sang Gethsemane for us. The primary song director invited us to share our testimonies of Jesus Christ with them. It made my day because they are so special. We dropped off food from our linger longer to some of our potentials. It was a beautiful day full of happiness.
I want to share with you my testimony of my Savior Jesus Christ. I love him so much and I am so blessed and so grateful I get to wear His name on my heart every single day. I am grateful I get to share His joy and the light He offers to each of us. I am so blessed and grateful for everything He did. I am grateful for His sacrifice. It pains me to say I made my Savior suffer but I am grateful He did because without that I wouldn’t even have a chance or opportunity to go back to be with them again. I am so grateful for this gospel and the perspective and light and joy it gives me. I am so grateful I get to share it every single day. I am so grateful for Peace that comes in Christ. One of my favorite quotes is, “Joy comes from and because of Him. He is the source of all joy.”
It is so true! There is no way to find true and lasting joy without Jesus Christ. There is no way we could do anything with happiness without Him and His atonement.
One of my favorite scriptures is John 16:33 “In the world you shall have tribulation but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.” It is an amazing reminder that we can be happy, of good cheer, because Jesus Christ has overcome the world. That is my testimony.
I love you all so much. Have an amazing week because we all will. There is no way we can’t because we are disciples of Jesus Christ. I hope you had a fantastic Easter.
Thanks for everything you do for me.
Love you, love you, bye!
Sister Dalley
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