Valentine's Day!
Day of love, a few days again:)
Our district had the mostest sweets in the whole world, like candy and
chocolate and cinnamon rolls and ice cream.
Crazy.
Spanish is good too.
We went to the temple today and we did sealings.
Sealings are when a couple of families get sealed together for eternity:
So people don't just get married on earth, but also, in God's plan for
the eternities!
We teach about the plan of salvation all the time! The plan has a few
names, plan of salvation, plan of redemption, and my very favorite,
PLAN OF HAPPINESS!
A plan that makes us happy.
And the central key of that plan is... JESUS CHRIST:)
God wants us to be happy, so he gave us Jesus. Also God wants us to be
happy, so he gave us families. Families can be together forever
through Heavenly Father's plan!
In the sealing rooms, there are two mirrors on both sides.
It's beautiful because the only thing you can see in the mirror is the
other person across from you.
I got to participate as a daughter of families who passed away who
didn't get the opportunity to be sealed in eternity forever.
So after we do that work for them, they can choose if they want to
accept it and if they want to be together forever!
It's beautiful!
The mirror is great because to be happy for eternity, you aren't going
to be thinking about yourself, you will be thinking about your spouse
and loving and serving them:)
Kind of like my companion in my mission, we try to serve each other
and love each other. And if we are contentious or it's getting hard;
the best I thing we can do is try to have charity, and I try to serve
my companion. It puts me in her shoes and helps me realize why she
might be feeling the way she is or treating me a certain way. Then we
talk about it in Comp inventory and work through things through
compromise and change.
It's a process but I love it:)
I love my companion more and more everyday. Not even a lie!
Learning to love like Jesus did, or at least trying my best:)
What's one thing you can do this week for someone you don't like or
don't get along with or are fighting or having trouble with? Maybe try
and serve them!! It helps:)
Have a wonderful super day lovelies!!!
Also!! Prayer is good too! I did a cool kind of mock lesson and I had
two other missionaries teach me, and I prayed during the lesson out
loud with them and I asked God, if he loves me and if he still talks
to me!
And I felt the holy spirit and started crying! I know God continues to
communicate with us!
He communicates it many ways!! And we can communicate with him through
prayer! :)
So say a prayer, ask God if he can hear or if he cares! I promise he
does! He loves everyone of his children!
D&C 18:10 The worth of souls is great in the eyes of God!!
With love,
Hermana Poirier
Valentine's Day fun and temple and friends
Thursday, February 19, 2015
Wednesday, February 4, 2015
The MTC: 1st Week
Missionary Training Center:
What we learned on sunday was something amazing.
People told me it was hard.
They didn't tell me that it was the happiest place on earth.
What did I learn this week?
I learned that God wants me to learn patience.
My first flight was cancelled. Then I missed my second one, so it had to be rescheduled.
I got in many hours later than expected.... then.... my bags got in wayyyy late, so I didn't even get them till the day after.
Then I arrived at the MTC, found my bags, and my companion showed up a day and a half late.
But the one thing that I learned... is that with patience,, brings the best things!
For example! The BEST COMPANION. Her name is Hermana Sedgwick.
She seriously is the best.
Her and I get along so well.
We played volleyball yesterday for an hour, and went craaazzy!
I also played soccer and ran the other few days.
What we learned on sunday was something amazing.
5 10 3
4 6 8
9 2 7
I hope this turns out right.
These are all numbers.
For example, if we had to rate people's skills.
or characteristics.
The most important thing about these numbers is that if you add up the first row, 5 plus 10 plus 3, it equals 18,
if you add up the second, 18,
and keep going. If you add the rows down, and diagnol, they all equal 18.
The important part of this lesson, is that even if I'm a 2 or a 3 or a 10, I am needed,
and I am not needed any more or any less than any of the other numbers. Because if one number was missing, then we could never ever add up to 18.
That's what it's like having a companion and being in a district. There are 8 people in our district for learning spanish. Maybe my spanish is a 8 compared to the others, but my gospel principles are a 2 compared to everyone else, but the important part, is that my 8 is needed just as much as my 2.
And so what I learned,
is that whatever number I am... to be the best that I can be! To be the best 5 I can be. To be the best 2 I can be, the best 8 I can be.
Because whatever number I am, I am needed.
And you too, you are needed, all of you.
God needs all of us and loves all of us.
And whatever contribution to the world we can make, HE NEEDS IT.
He couldn't be without the 1's or the 2's, and all the 10's need the 2's and the 2's need the 10's.
It brings a whole new perspective to your value in life.
Pray to God,
He will give you comfort!
I love you all,
And I love the MTC.
And I honestly wouldn't want to be anywhere else but here,
With Love,
-Hermana Poirier
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