October 27th Changing my Heart

In my personal study I was reading the fourth missionary talk and pondering a lot about what I need to do to improve my missionary work and my attitude towards the work. I even talked about it in my farewell talk a bit, about changing the intents of your heart and giving your desires to the Lord. I seemed to have an idea that you can do it like a flip of a switch, easy. Just give yourself to the Lord. no problem. 

Changing the intents of your heart is hard, it can be a real challenge. And its a process, it really does take a lot of change. But what is the purpose of our time here on earth? to change!! Saying that its in your nature or its just the way you are, is never an excuse. The atonement and the plan of salvation is tilting everything in our favor, with help from the Lord and sincere prayer, we can be like our savior, and be able to live up to our divine potential that we each have received in the pre existence. Nothing we can create ourselves will be better than what the Lord has created for us. 

A barrier I've always had is that I never had good grades, I never thought about myself as a smart person and that has limited my ability to progress, I was constantly limiting myself. But I am a daughter of God, I was born in this gospel to progress, and help others to progress.I am a daughter of a King and therefore I have no limits to what I can become. If I want to be loving, caring, affectionate, AND smart. than I am going to work to become that. I never got good grades in school because I didnt allow myself to.  This is a life of no limits. This is a time where we can learn to become like God. 

My challenge to everyone this week is to think about the barriers you each have and about how you can overcome them, and what steps you need to take to become the person you want to become. Because most of the barriers in life are mental

ones that we have created ourselves. 

Thanksgiving

In the season of thanks, i would just like to give a quick spiritual thought on recognizing our blessings. The other day we were street contacting in down town St. Johns, which we do at least 3 or 4 times a week, and i was having just a downer of a day. Nobody was talking to us and i was (still am) having troubles talking to people, and we were walking back to the car and i was just thinking about how many things i need to work on and how ineffective i was until i perfected those aspects, and really just bringing myself down, i was tired and just wanted to go crawl into my bed even though it was only the morning. Then i just had a voice come into my head that said "think about how blessed you are" I turned around at the top of the hill we had just walked up to see a beautiful scene of St. Johns. How blessed am I. I am serving my mission in one of the most beautiful parts of the country. I have a companion i get a long with, I have a name tag with the name of Jesus Christ on it. He has chosen me to represent Him. How blessed am I. I was raised with an amazing family who is strong in the gospel. I have a knowledge of our Heavenly Father who loves me and will bless me even though im not a perfect teacher. I get to spend the next 17 months of my life, not having to worry about rent and money, or any worldly thing, i get the opportunity to share my knowledge and my blessings with everyone i meet. And how blessed am I to have the Holy Ghost with me to remind me of these blessings when im feeling down.

Alma 32:1 "And it came to pass that they did go forth, and began to preach the word of God unto the people, entering into their synagogues, and into their houses; yea, and even they did preach the word in their streets."

During Sister Lambert's first visit to downtown St. John's, she took the opportunity to share about the Book of Mormon!

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