Heaven is rooting for you! :)

April 4, 2016

Hi family!! General Conference was so awesome!! I am glad you enjoyed it mom! Hahah. It was really great:) Also it absolutely poured rain on Friday hahaha. It was insane. In my 11 months of being in Maryland/Virginia I have never seen rain that crazy! The thunderstorms are really cool here:)

Tuesday, Sister Jensen and I instructed at zone training. We were asked to instruct on what Sister Tait & I instructed on last zone training in Winchester! Haha. It was awesome. We instructed on using the Book of Mormon as our main source in resolving concerns & teaching the restored gospel. One of the 70 came to a leadership conference recently and talked about how we should be using the Book of Mormon as our main source in teaching. That's something I have been working on a lot the past few months. I am trying to read the Book of Mormon right now by this summer. As I immerse myself in it whenever I have spare time I feel so much closer to the Lord. I love learning about His covenant people who were over here and the blessings that come from following the Lord.

And then Wednesday..... I got sick. I think I had a 24 hour flu. It was awful. Oh man. It was bad & my stomach felt so weird for a few days after. We took Wednesday off for me to get rest. I ate a lot of saltine crackers & drank coca cola haha. Let me just tell you that as a missionary, staying in is the absolute worst! Haha. It is no fun being stuck inside when you can be out talking and visiting with people:) Thankfully I feel better now:)

We received so many referrals this week & we have a lot of potential appointments this upcoming week! We are excited to meet with those who are prepared:) It is so true that more & more millennials are being drawn to the gospel.

We taught a Haitian woman named Flo this week. She lives alone and she was interested in learning more so we were able to teach her about the Restoration. She really has a lot of faith in God & understands that Christ is the reason we will be able to return to live with God. I love that the Book of Mormon always teaches us about the doctrine of the atonement and the sacrifice of our Savior.

Friday was a miracle! We were trying by a less-active family to see if they still lived there. The non-member wife answered the door. Her name is April & she is from China! She met her husband over in China. He is on a business trip for a few months. He told her before he left, "the missionaries will probably stop by. They can't come in though because I'm not home."
When we got there she saw that there are sisters now so she invited us in! It was really cool talking to her about the church and about her beliefs. She wants to get together with us to do bible study. She teaches Chinese for the military and she said she always knew who the LDS kids were because there was something special about them. It was so sweet!! We are having dinner with her this week:)

I loved all of General Conference. It was really powerful for me, especially the prayers & the music. The spirit was there in such abundance! I loved what Elder Holland said about how Heaven is rooting for us! We learned so much about how our Savior just needs us to turn to Him. And how He is waiting for us to let him help us. The simple truth that our Father in Heaven loves us and we are His children is so amazing. It is so sad how many people don't know that. I'm grateful that as a representative of Him, I get to share these pure gospel truths with those that I come in contact with:) I was also reminded a lot about the temple. Oh man oh man, I just love the temple. I love the covenants that we make there and the spirit that is felt. I also loved how President Uchtdorf said that obedience is liberating and a lifeblood of faith!:) As we obey, our eyes are opened & we are truly free.

I also loved Sister Bonnie L. Oscarson's talk about all the gospel truths we know of. I loved what Elder Christofferson said about fathers:) & I am most especially grateful for President Monson's commission for us to choose the harder right.

I love you all. I love the Book of Mormon, which testifies of him. I love the restored gospel, and I am grateful for continual repentance. Eternal life is not out of reach. Our Savior is always there to lift us back up. Xo Sister Stolworthy






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PS For my birthday last week Sister Campora gave us a session of yoga! She does one-on-one yoga at her studio & it is normally super expensive but she let us do it with her! haha. she is a ward missionary and she is awesome!! She is from the Czech Republic & her son is on a mission in Poland. She goes out with us a lot to lessons:))