On Monday we have a district P-day! We ordered pizza and played board games at the church, and then went bowling! It was super fun ^^
This Wednesday at Zone Conference, I have been asked to do the special musical number! Luckily one of the elders I serve with plays the piano super good, so I got permission to find a song online, and he is accompanying me. I am singing "My Kindness Shall Not Depart From Thee" If you haven't heard it, look it up! It is so pretty! So we have been practicing for that, and I get a call a couple nights ago from our zone leader {dun dun dun} and apparently the Stake President {who I have never met, hence the title of this email} asked me to sing at the upcoming Recent Convert meeting. It's this Sunday, and it is the whole stake! Yikes! haha
It's raining today, so we are spending our P-day with the elders practicing the song, cooking lunch, and playing board games haha!
This week has been a little slow with the lessons unfortunately.. so not much to share about that ㅠㅠ 하지만, i had some pretty good learning experiences and personal study times! which is even better! Doctrine & Covenants 18:15 is one of my favorite scriptures. It reads, "And if it so be that you should labor all your days in crying repentance unto this people, and bring, save it be one soul unto me, how great shall be your joy with him in the kingdom of my Father!" That one soul is me. As missionaries, sharing the message that we have every single day for a year and a half to two years, we ourselves must first be converted. We can not convert past our own conversion. You can not teach some one how to do something if you don't know how to do it right? I love that verse because our own conversion on our mission is the most important. As i have studied, and taught, and learned, and experienced this gospel, I have truly become converted. Some of you knew me when i was in my early teens, and you know that i was not always the happiest person. luckily, over the last couple years, I have changed {drastically} and was much happier. Since coming out on the Lord's mission, I have changed drastically again. Something I have realized is that there is a difference between feeling happy and being happy. Before this, I just felt happy. And now, when I think about my family, my friends, and all the blessings in my life, I am happy.
This morning I was reading a little bit about the plan of happiness and I wrote in my notebook that the Plan of Happiness does not start after we die. The Plan of Happiness is now. The Plan of Happiness is our family, our friends, our experiences, the choices we make, the things we learn. Happiness is what we do everyday. Well, it's what I do everyday. Through the gospel of Jesus Christ, happiness is what I am becoming. & it's awesome.
I love you all, sorry this is a little on the long side!! It just means you are all very important to me right? ^^ I hope that you have an awesome week!!