November 16, 2015

Hello Family! What's up?? This was a pretty great week as usual!

The bishop gave us a reference and turns out that they are awesome! Jonathan and Paola and a baby on the way.. :) Jonathan has a brother who is a member and he knows a lot about the church. His wife Paola has only ever heard that we do not drink coffee... But since they have a baby on the way, they really want to settle down and take life more seriously. And somewhere deep down in Jonathan's heart, he knows that the best way for his family is through the Gospel of Jesus Christ. :) They are excited to study with us and learn more about how to receive blessings for their family and we are excited to help them. :) They live in a sweet house by the river, so that's fun too!

One of my favortie scriptures is in Matthew 5, and says that we need to be perfect even like our Father in Heaven is perfect.... First we learn that our Heavenly Father is perfect. Perfect love, perfect patience, perfect judge, perfect kindness, perfect thoughts, perfect planner. And second we learn that we are able to be perfect as well - that our goal is perfection. That the perfect happiness that God enjoys, we can also enjoy. The perfect life that God lives, we too can live. No, none of us are currently perfect, but that should be our goal. During a lesson I asked a father what that scripture means to him and he replied, that I need to try to come close to who my Heavenly Father is so that I can receive some of the blessings that he receives... It made me sad that his goal was to receive SOME of the blessings. Our Heavenly Father does not want to give us only some of the blessings. He has prepared a way for each of us to receive ALL of the blessings. And the way is to reach perfection. Maybe not today, or even in this life time, but that should be our goal. There is always more to improve, more to learn, more to serve, and more to love. We can always work a little harder to become more like God, and we can trust that one day we will reach our goals with the help of our Savior Jesus Christ. :) Our goals should never be to stay the same or to settle, we are better than that.

I hope you all have a fantastic week! Be safe and happy! :)

Love,

Sister Markle. :)

We did a height order thing... Hermana Gividen is officially the tallest Hermana in the mission and Hermana Montepeque is officially the shortest Hermana in the mission... I fall closer to the Gividen side of the scale, right???