Faith, Trust and Pixie Dust

I'm going to talk about pixie dust first. The fireflies here make the world sparkle. It's pixie dust. Even at the end of the most hectic, traumatizing, or maybe a great day (usually a mix of all three) at least I get to watch the fireflies dance and I can smile and I can pretend I can fly. I pretend I'm a fairy a lot. 

You know it's been quite a week when I have to remind myself that I AM a fairy ballerina princess. The world tries to make me forget sometimes.

This was quite a week. It's required tremendous amounts of faith and trust. And at the end, it didn't matter because I had to leave it all up to Heavenly Father anyway. In short there was quite a bit of struggles with the trio life. We all get along really well but let's just say when you get too many mental illnesses in one place...basically I have been the senior companion for the last two weeks. I got specific advice from President and the Sister Training Leaders about it, but I tried it and it made things worse sooo...faith and trust. Adjusting and growing. We are working on getting help so that's good. Trusting I can survive. 

The real highlights this week were Zone Conference and exchanges. Zone Conference was focused on the Atonement and how to use it in our teaching and how to use the scriptures to teach it. It blew my mind! And what's even better, I have been able to teach using the scriptures even more powerfully since. 

For example, we were on exchanges and Sister Eborn and I were teaching a woman from Nigeria. Our goal was to use some scriptures to teach her how the gospel can help her change and become. We planned some scriptures before, but in the lesson, both of us had a flood of scriptures come to our minds to address her specific questions. We kept whipping them out, it was fantastic and she decided to come to church. The scriptures hold all the answers. ALL of them. Seek them out. 

We had FIVE people come to church yesterday. Mt. Airy has been prepared for miracles and they are happening. It's been years since they've had progress like this. The ward is the most amazing ward. They are stepping up and doing their part with full purpose of heart. Magnify your callings, there is always a little more we can do in the Kingdom of God and we are so blessed for our sacrifices.
Hmm more stories from the week. We finally got our bikes. I'm so excited!!! Except if you saw the roads we are riding on Mom...hahaha super sketch. We'll be safe. We have to wear yellow vests now. And ankle bands. Super stylin. 

Oh this week we also got to help shut down the Damascus apartment. Hauled a lot of things, that felt good. I love the physical labor we get to do but they are few and far in between, most people wrapped up yard work so we haven't done that for a while. 

Those who sent the packages, thank you SOOOOOO MUCH!!!! They really made a tough week so much better. 

Overall, it's just been a learning process. Learning to trust in leaders, in companions, in myself. Trying to have faith that everything is happening as it is supposed to and that God is in charge. This is his work. We can only do what we can do and when we've done that, there's always pixie dust. I guess it's kind of like the role of grace in the Atonement. We'll never be able to do it ourselves. We need Christ and his infinite mercy. He just needs us to try. Keep repenting. It takes faith and hope to repent so start with faith and hope and then decide it's worth the change. It's worth becoming. Just choose one thing to stop doing or one thing to start doing and do it. Trust that the Atonement will enable you and empower you. Jesus Christ gave you his mercy, use it. Be grateful for it, not afraid of it. It's such a beautiful thing, the healing power of the Atonement. 

3 Nephi 9:13 "Will ye not now return unto me, and repent of your sins, and be converted, that I may heal you?" Let Him heal you. 

I love you all SOOOOOO MUCH!!!!!!!!! You're the cutest awesomest most talented smartest most loving family in the world! You're all my heroes!!!! Thank you for your love.