I can't believe this was my second Easter in the mission field!
On Wednesday President Mortensen came to a meeting we have each week with our High Councilman. We've been trying to build up our ward recently and asked him if he would come and help us out in the meeting. He talked a little about the sacrament and I would like to share a few things that he said. He spoke of missing sacrament meeting even just one week can darken our mind and impair our judgement. The sabbath day has been spoken on very frequently by apostles and prophets in the last few months and years. President Mortensen said it is a way that we can maintain peace and hope while the world continues to fall. With bombings and other current events, we have a way to receive protection from the Lord. We will find it in taking the sacrament every week. Our minds will be illuminated and we will be able to carry the spirit with us all throughout the week.
M is now being baptized on April 9th! She is so lovely! Yesterday during church she took my planner and wrote "gracias por existir."- thank you for existing. She is so sweet and has given me a huge testimony that God really does know us individually.
Recently the Texas Houston Mission has worked a ton in family history work. The mission president has received multiple calls from around the world including from Family Search to inquire what we have been doing with genealogy. The mission as well as a few really smart members put together a five module course to teach family history. On Thursday we received a training on how to teach it. It's amazing how much family history can turn our hearts. My experience in the temple last week truly has turned mine, both to my ancestors and to the Lord. I've never felt the spirit in such a way as I did last Wednesday in the temple.
Friday night I got to eat dinner with a recent convert from my very first ward. He ended up moving to another mission, but has been struggling lately so he came up to the Woodlands. It was great to see him and to hear how much the church means in his life. He works on the bishop's storehouse regularly and attends baptisms for the dead as often as he can.
Saturday night we went to the general women's conference. I got to see Hermana McCurdy (my "daughter") as well as a few other hermanas I loved serving with. Hermana McCurdy hits her 9 month mark this week. It feels like I just trained her! Where has the time gone? It was the best women's conference I've ever been to! Everyone spoke on service and love. I especially loved Neill F Marriott's talk on edifying the Kingdom of God. As women and disciples of Jesus Christ our first role is to build his kingdom. One way we can do that is to become like the Master. I loved that Sister Marriott asked herself, "how would Christ respond?" I've been asking myself that quite a bit the past two days. Christ left a legacy of service and love and we shall do the same. It's not easy but it's possible!
I hope that everyone enjoyed Easter! I was far away from my family but I felt them close. I got to spend the afternoon with one of my favorite families in the Woodlands. This Spring, my testimony of the Atonement of Jesus Christ has been strengthened like never before. I am eternally grateful for His infinite love. I know that earthly
limitations will only be with us for a short time, and on that great day when the Savior comes, we will all rise again and be united with those that we love.
Mosiah 16:6-8
And now if Christ had not come into the world, speaking of things to
come as though they had already come, there could have been no
redemption.
And if Christ had not risen from the dead, or have broken the bands of
death that the grave should have no victory, and that death should
have no sting, there could have been no resurrection.
But there is a resurrection, therefore the grave hath no victory, and
the sting of death is swallowed up in Christ.
Con amor, Hermana Jorgensen
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