August
18, 2014
This
week was a blur. It's just been crazy. I don't even know what to write about!
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| Hermanas Carlson & Miller |
Something
really neat I have been really amazed by this week is personal revelation and
stewardship. As Hermana Carlson planned our vision for this area, we both felt
we should work a lot with the part-member families in our ward. I scheduled us
some meetings with the Bishop and the Ward Mission Leader, and they both had
received the same promptings. I know as we do that, we will see miracles. It is
so important to work with the Priesthood.
If
there is one thing that I have learned to LOVE on my mission it is the
Priesthood. I love and respect all Priesthood holders dearly. I LOVE Priesthood
blessings. I wish I could have one every day. And something else I have learned
to love is the way that Priesthood power and the divine role of women work
together. No one is excluded from the blessings of the
Priesthood. They are for EVERYONE. Just like a woman
cannot bring life into this world (which is the most incredible privilege and
honor God could bestow on us,) without her husband, neither can a man exercise
the fullness of the Priesthood power without his wife. If anyone says
that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is prejudiced and
unfair, they do not understand the gospel. Men and women are a
team in the gospel of Jesus Christ. Our Heavenly Father loves us so dearly and
I am constantly and consistently amazed at the eternal and Celestial (and
different) responsibilities we have each been given. We need each
other. Men and women are not meant to compete for glory or rally for position,
but to encourage and lift one another to a higher, more celestial plane of
living. Cooperation, not competition, is the key to happiness. Humility, not
hostility. Oh, how we all need each other. I wish everyone could see and
understand that. I know that as we work together in callings, and in
relationships, righteous men and women could change the world.
What
it all boils down to is pride. Pride is the root of all vices, just as charity
is the source from which all virtues spring. Let's just all be humble and work
together and make the world a beautiful place, okay? :)
I
love you all! I am doing great. Hope you each are as well.
This
week I challenge you to make prayer journals! As you pray and ask questions to
the Lord, write them down and then record the promptings you feel and the
answers you get through the scriptures. It's so wonderful.
Love
you!
Hermana
Miller
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