Eternal Perspective

 Hey! I hope you all had a fantastic week! 

This week was very interesting! It had a lot of ups and downs but overall it was good. First off the goods:) we had zone conference and a lot of the stuff that our President talked about was really inspired. It helped me know even more that our leaders can recieve divine inspiration for us! We also had General Conference which was SOOO GOOOD!! if you didn't get the chance to listen, go online and listen to it! You won't regret it. If you did get the chance to listen to it, go online and listen to it again! Haha I seriously loved it and I know without a doubt that president Nelson is a prophet of God and he and the other leaders of the church recieve revelation for us. They answered every single one of my questions and prayers, and I know they can do the same for you! 

Another awesome thing of this week was that a family we've been teaching got baptized! It's so special to see people in white making covenants with God! Last minute they dropped the bomb that they'd be moving to another ward haha which sucks for us, but the members of the other ward really stepped up and showed their support for this fam at their baptism and I know they'll be in good hands! Being on the mission has really made me think not only of the type of person I want to be, but also the type of member and disciple I want to be after! I hope you guys will all step up and help in your wards. Share the gospel with your friends. Give referrals to the missionaries. Take your callings seriously. Make an extra effort to love and minister to others. Try to be a little more like Jesus, and don't beat yourself up if you're not perfect or doing as good as you want to be! Don't give up! We can be perfected IN Jesus Christ, and we need him every day. We can't do this without him and his atonement. Try a little harder to do the things that Jesus would be doing if he were here, we take his name upon us every week- Are we really showing through our actions that weve taken upon his name? Anyways that's a lot of stuff, and sometimes we feel too busy to do all of that, but I PROMISE that as we look outside of ourselves and look to help those around us, God will allow us to see miracles and be the answer to someone's prayers. I promise that the type of joy we feel from really taking the name of Jesus Christ upon us makes us feel JOY and love that we can't find in anything "of the world". Jesus has overcome the world and so can we with his help go listen to pres Nelson's talk for some awesome advice on how to do that!! 

This week we had a lot of problems "of the world" haha. Im not going to explain everything but basically we haven't had light or gas almost all week, and there were some days where I was like "do I laugh or cry rn" haha. During all the stuff that went down I realized how much God loves and comforts us through our trials and that with an eternal perspective, a lot of things don't matter! Every trial or experience where I could have felt super sad or mad or discouraged, I felt the comforting peace of the spirit and I was overwhelmed with love. When we yoke ourselves to christ and have trust in him, and an eternal perspective, we can overcome the world and feel so much happiness! 

I hope you are all doing awesome and enjoy this week! Love you!! 

-hna Stone