April 14

Hello,

 

This week we had our zone conference which was great. We refocused on using the scriptures more in our teaching and studying, especially the Book of Mormon. Sister Craven also gave us a lesson reminding us to be more healthy and take care of ourselves because "the spirit and the body are the soul of man" (D&C 88:15) and our bodies are a temple because they house our spirits and if we treat them right the Holy Spirit can dwell with us too. Then President Craven followed that with talking about resurrection.

 

Starting yesterday and going through Easter Sunday the church has put out this amazing video about Christ that they want us to share all over our social media and Facebook with as many people as we can members and nonmembers. You can find it and watch it at easter.mormon.org and it's just a few minutes and is about what is possible because of Jesus Christ. Also, if you are social media savvy, the church said you can hashtag the video with #BecauseofHim. Go check it out!

 

I don't have too much new stuff to tell about. We are trying to figure out how to introduce Amber to the sisters in the ward so we invited her to a RS 5k Fun Run (those 2 words do not go together haha) and said we would run it with her! Lot's of water and lots of stretching and warm-up for me.

Sherman just moved out of our area temporarily so we are trying to figure out how that works and get teaching them again - he is so close to baptism! Garrett is close too, but we couldn't meet with them this week because they weren't feeling well so we may have to give it a little more time.

Church yesterday was very nice. A less active sister we are trying to work with came to sacrament meeting! It was a little answer to my unspoken prayer. :) Jen, recent convert, was able to receive her patriarchal blessing yesterday as well and the ward I believe is starting up a temple prep class again that she'll be able to attend. It makes me happy to see converts developing their testimonies and getting ready for the temple. Also, Sister Gunther gave a wonderful talk which I can't remember what it was exactly about because it got me reflecting on the Savior and that's what I was pondering on all of the block.

We had a little dinner message with a family about Easter and Christ's Ressurection. It was so cute when we asked the kids what the meaning of Easter was and the youngest girl immediately shouts "chocolate!" - that's what I'm talking about. ;)

 

Take care and make good choices! I will write to y'all next week.

Love,

Sister Rust

 

P.S. This week the other sisters found botanical gardens on UNCC's campus so during lunch we went and wandered around in there for a bit. It was very lovely and forest-like (sometimes I still can't get over the trees here! Love them).