STRIVING

So why I wrote the word striving in the subject box was because I think it sums up what we do as members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We continually strive to do better, be better, and to achieve all that God has in store for us, to become more Christlike. We know that as we are striving we must put our faith and trust in our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ to progress. I noticed this week as we were teaching people the restored gospel that they often felt very overwhelmed, especially the Jensen family. They want to receive it all. They want to have happiness, be an eternal family, have the Spirit in their lives in greater abundance and feel worthy. I often have felt the urge to try to jump up to the top but we must take steps to get to the top. As we talked about the word  "striving", that it means as we move forward wherever we are on the track as long as we are facing in the right direction we will get there. Scott Jensen (he is so wonderful) said," I want this to be true, I sure hope it is." We invited him to be baptized on December 10th-He accepted!!!

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I love sharing my testimony and bringing others to Christ. It brings me the greatest joy.
A lady in our ward came with us to a lesson. Afterwards, she expressed her great gratitude for asking her to come with us. she said," I just love sharing my testimony. It brings the greatest feelings of happiness. The Spirit was strong during the lesson. Share your testimony, "perfect love casteth out all fear." ( Elder Perry's talk last conference)
The Spirit will convert. The lady we were teaching said," The Spirit is strong, I know this is from God, I know that the things you are saying are true because I can feel it." Those words to a missionary are some of the greatest words anyone could say to us.