Conference and Service

Hello Family and Friends!

 

This week as been wonderful, just like every week out here in the mission. First off it was conference! It was great and we were able to have investigators there with us which was wonderful.

So this week we had a couple opportunities to serve there is this one place we got to called Feed My Starving Children. What we do is like fill bags with rice and all this other stuff for third world countries that have starving children. Our whole district goes and every time we try and beat the number of boxes we pack. There is like 36 bags of food in a box. And we packed 32 boxes! Whoo!

 

Yesterday we found out there was this less active in the Hospital. The Elders gave her a blessing and told us to go by and see her. It was really special and good to have that opportunity to visit her. As we sat and talked to her she told us about all the things that have happened to her in her life and all of the injuries she has had... which was a lot! And the things that struck me was how happy she was and the out look on life she had. She was still happy and was not bitter. It made me think about our circumstances and about what a lady from out ward said, "You don't have to look to far to find somebody a lot worse off than you." So true, and so sad. We shared a message with her and emphasized that God knows us, and our strengths. He gives us nothing that we can not handle, yet sometimes I think he gives us things that we almost can't handle, so that we learn to handle them. It's all in the Lords hands, and time. I walked away from that room really understanding the quality of gratitude.

 

Later that day we got to go tracting! We both felt impressed to tract this street so as we started we met a man who said we are welcome to come back (That's a big deal!) Then we came to another house, and this guy comes out and just starts quizin us! Sometimes/most of the time they think they are coming up with these great questions that are stumping us. Its never the case, it's just us trying to figure out how we will answer the questions, you see the Gospel of Jesus Christ has the answers to everything. It's so fortunate. you don't need to look so hard to find the why we are hear, what we are doing, whats going on, where are we going, because through revelation we have been shown these answers and now its up to use to figure out how we can do our best to follow the commandments. We tried to teach this guys, he had some very thought out philosophies, but the truth is,  he is still looking! We gave him a Book of Mormon and a chapter to read, and he just said, "I don't need a book to tell me how to live, I am an observer." Some things have be learned the hard way.

 

I am so thankful that we have living day prophets and apostles who honor the priesthood. I am so thankful that we have  honorable priesthood holders in out church as well. This is why we are able to continue to have His Gospel on the earth. It is only through him and the revelation we receive that allows truth to be here. I love you and I miss you. I have you have a wonderful week and will talk to you soon :)

Love, Sister Tincher

Sisters at the Chicago Temple