Mommy Daughter Date

YOU GUYS! Good week.

Not-so-quick highlights:

Intercambio with Hermana Vasquez (Shout-out to Dave and Jackie)

Having a 15-hour conversation with Hermana Vasquez

Walking in the Chilean streets once again with Hermana Vasquez

Laughing with/at Hermana Vasquez

Planning my life out in detail with Hermana Vasquez's feedback/thoughts

Absolutely EXHAUSTED on Friday

We hiked to the top of our area, and it took an hour of straight climbing, BUT, we got to see all of Santiago lit up, and it was gorgeous

I thought I was going to vomit all day yesterday because I ate so much Peruvian food at lunch #iamnotexaggerating #TMI

Vero #elect #memberreference wants to get baptized ASAP

Eduardo wants to get baptized, and he hung out with Hermana Patricia (a lady in our ward) for 5 hours after our lesson

Consejo de líderes!!!!! I love our mission #elite

Packed house in church this week with friends that LOVE CHURCH

Austin running into my besties (Critter, Sammy Anne, Kell Bell, and cousin Carol) in the Wilk and getting to talk to them... Y's up

Trying to share the gospel in the nicer parts of our area and getting kicked out because the neighborhood chat was going off about "3 chiquillas (una alta rubia) hablando con todos acerca de Cristo." 

President and I crying in my interview when he mentioned the month "December" #orepormi

Tabernacle Choir

I am losing my voice because I talk too much

Elder Guymon asking Hermana Briones to give the training in District council and her pulling out the only phrase in English she knows... "Are you kidding me?!"

Hermana Arne and I trying to update each other about our whole missions and future plans in the 4 minutes we get to talk in conferences

I cracked a joke in my testimony this Sunday, and the crowd went wild 

Got a good farmer's tan going

Mentioning to every member I am MORE than thrilled for watermelon season in hopes I have watermelon in every lunch in summer

All of my friends sending me emails telling me they want to marry my brother Austin. #getinline

So, as you can see, I am doing SO very good in life. We are witnessing SO MANY miracles right now, so I am enjoying EVERY MOMENT.

RECEIVE

RECOGNIZE

RESPOND

to REVELATION

has been something I have thought a lot about recently.

I love the story at the beginning of the Book of Mormon after the prophet Lehi's family left Jerusalem on the Lord's command and were then commanded again to travel back into Jerusalem to retrieve the brass plates from a wicked man named Laban.

There are SO MANY lessons one could learn from studying 1 Nephi 2-4. Still, something that stuck out to me was after the second time of trying and failing to retrieve the plates of brass, Nephi was diligent and tried once more "not knowing beforehand the things which [he] should do" (1 Nephi 4:6). Through the Spirit, he was led to success.

This week, I have noticed that almost every "random" door we knock, the person who answers has interest. Or that every member we "randomly" text responds by saying how our message answered their prayers.

One could think that this is just a "lucky week" or just coincidences; however, it is revelation God "distills upon [our souls] as the dews from heaven" (Doctrine and Covenants 121:45) while being "led by the spirit, not knowing beforehand the things which [we] should do."

Elder Bednar said,

"We do not have to recognize in the moment we are receiving revelation that we are receiving revelation. Simply be good."

As we continue to live worthy of the companionship of the Spirit, we too will be guided by the Spirit "not knowing beforehand" how to accomplish our worthy desires.

RECEIVE, RECOGNIZE, and RESPOND to REVELATION.

Hermana Pickett