Hello :)
My conference weekend was awesome! I feel so blessed to have
been able to watch it. We watched it at one of the stake centers and it was
really only us missionaries there. I also ABSOLUTELY loved Elder Hollands talk.
Usually he’s powerful and bold, but this time his talk was all about the
importance of Mothers and he was very gentle... I wish I would have brought my
notes to the library. I seriously think I wrote a book... but he kept talking
about how the love of a mother is comparable to the love of the savior. And his
love is perfect and then he told the story of the dying man and how the man
said that he would rather confess his sins to Christ than to his mother. I
thought that was interesting. But it made me think of how grateful I am to have
a mother that really does understand that infinite love. You have loved me when
no one else could... when I thought I was out of the reach of even my saviors
love, you were there. No matter how many mistakes I made, or mean words I said,
you always loved me and I haven’t understood that until now and still haven’t
really even come close to understanding it. But you bore me in all of your
trials and afflictions. You carried me for 9 months, and then some more. Basically
for 19 years you have carried me. You taught me in the ways of truth and
righteousness and for that, I will be eternally grateful. I see all of these
little children in less active families who aren’t baptized and who don’t come
to church and really have no rules or structure and I think, what would my life
have been like if that was me? Honestly I don’t like thinking about it because
I would probably be far away from the iron rod and nowhere close to the tree of
life. But you have been there. You help lead me and guide me and you walk
beside me. I love you so much mom. There is no other woman who could have
raised me to be who I am now, than you. Thank you. Thank you for
reminding me of who I was, who I am, and who I was to become.
The scripture I have decided to "ponderize" is Alma 31:38
that (And the Lord provided for them
that they should hunger not, neither should they thirst; yea, and he also gave
them strength, that they should suffer no manner of afflictions, save it were
swallowed up in the joy of Christ. Now this was according to the prayer of
Alma; and this because he prayed in faith.). Especially the part about how
"The Lord provided for them..." and "...that they should suffer
no manner of afflictions, save it were swallowed up in the joy of Christ."
I have definitely experienced this many a time. Ha-ha! But I love your verse :)
so simple. And yet so powerful! It just goes to show the gospel really is
simple and plain! :) Our heavenly father loves us and we are literally his
spirit children!
Funny story: one of my bike tires got flat this week. Turns out I
had rolled over a huge thorn and it punctured the tube inside so we had to go
buy a new one but I got it all fixed and figured out by myself! Woo hoo! 
Hmm...
We also taught the law of chastity to a less active family and that was
awesome. The mom specifically asked for it too! XD it was cool. But we are
teaching a lot of members and less active families.
We still have no new investigators, but we continue to rely on the lord and on his timing and we continually qualify ourselves to find them by being more sanctified (Saturday morning seemed to be all about becoming a sanctified missionary...) and by doing those things that we have been "commanded" by our mission president. And honestly, I really am so grateful to be in this area at this time. This week I got a blessing from one of my ZL's Elder Stone. I had been feeling a little bit down, not with the work but just emotionally. And in it, he mentioned that I was here to do a specific work that no one else could do. That I really was here for a reason. That my heavenly father knows me perfectly and that I was prepared for these challenges and trials.
Hmm...
We also taught the law of chastity to a less active family and that was
awesome. The mom specifically asked for it too! XD it was cool. But we are
teaching a lot of members and less active families.We still have no new investigators, but we continue to rely on the lord and on his timing and we continually qualify ourselves to find them by being more sanctified (Saturday morning seemed to be all about becoming a sanctified missionary...) and by doing those things that we have been "commanded" by our mission president. And honestly, I really am so grateful to be in this area at this time. This week I got a blessing from one of my ZL's Elder Stone. I had been feeling a little bit down, not with the work but just emotionally. And in it, he mentioned that I was here to do a specific work that no one else could do. That I really was here for a reason. That my heavenly father knows me perfectly and that I was prepared for these challenges and trials.
I guess that is about it for
this week. I really love you so much and miss you! Don’t forget to pray and
make the Sabbath a delight!
-Sister Anna
Haymond
Anna's super proud of her foot tan. That's right, our super white daughter is getting tan!
Cute Sister!
Flu shot power!
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