The Book of Mormon is True!!

Cowgirls!

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Hey Everyone!!

I hope that y'all had a wonderful week! Ours was so good! It amazes me how truly blessed I am to be serving, at this time, in the State of Idaho! The members here are like no other! I'll tell you why in a little bit! ;D

So something excited happened today... I got called an actual cowgirl today!! Sometimes we help out on the Stake President's cow ranch and today we were helping them burn some extra wood and things they have and at the beginning of the endeavor he said that we were almost cowgirls but then by the end of it... he said that we were cowgirls!! My dream has come true! Haha alright now to the good stuff!

On Thursday, I had kind of an "ah ha" moment. Throughout the day I just realized (again) that the labors I am doing here are not in vain. When I was talking with the sisters I live with, we realized that Satan likes to get to us and tell us that what we are doing is not worth it but it COMPLETELY is!!! We had one of our investigators tell us this week that she just feels at home when she comes to church! Then we had dinner with another one of our investigators and they are just so amazing! I love being able to become friends with those I am able to meet and teach! I have no idea how I am so blessed but I am so grateful for all of the big and small miracles I have witnessed so far on my mission!

One of our recent converts has lost his support in the church so it has been hard for him to come to church. Our Ward Mission Leader was so smart and suggested that we take one of the Young Men with us so he can have a role-model in his life. We asked one of the Young Men to come and he came teaching with us the next day! It went so well! I am so grateful for the help and suggestions that we get throughout the week!

It was pretty cool because when Sister Allen got here she mentioned that she wants to do more service. After she said that, we have had a lot of service opportunities, "ask and ye shall receive" right?? We were even able to help this one family move in to their new house and we hope that they will become new investigators soon!

Sunday was just amazing! So in a couple of Sundays we are doing a "Face-to-Face" with the youth in the Salmon Stake. We went to the wards we were assigned over and collected the questions the youth have about missionaries, mission life, mission prep., ECT. We are so excited for it! The youth are asking some pretty amazing questions, I'll let y'all know how it goes!

After church, one of our Elders Quorum President put on this activity called "Whitestorm" and this is why the members of Salmon are so amazing! Whitestorm is an activity to help the members get more involved in missionary work, help contact less-active members, and get the missionaries referrals! We got like 17 referrals in an hour and half from this activity! We are so blessed! We were also able to learn from our Ward Mission Leader and see how we can be better missionaries! He is such a good missionary! (By the way, the reason it is called Whitestorm because it was originally in place for the men to go out in their white shirts and "storm" the city by contacting all the people that they can!)

I am so grateful I am a missionary! I am grateful for all that I am learning everyday! I am so grateful for the Book of Mormon. So as a mission family, we have been reading a chapter of the Book of Mormon everyday and we will be finishing it on Saturday! I am so excited to have the opportunity to reconfirm my testimony of the Book of Mormon this Saturday. If you are not reading the Book of Mormon everyday right now, I would like to invite you to start today and commit to yourself that you will read it everyday. I can promise you that by doing so, your testimony of the Book of Mormon will grow and that you will better recognize the blessings God has given each of you! I will like to close with the PROMISED blessings our Prophet of God has given to us.

" My dear brothers and sisters, I promise that as you prayerfully study the Book of Mormon every day, you will make better decisions—every day. I promise that as you ponder what you study, the windows of heaven will open, and you will receive answers to your own questions and direction for your own life. I promise that as you daily immerse yourself in the Book of Mormon, you can be immunized against the evils of the day, even the gripping plague of pornography and other mind-numbing addictions."-President Russel M. Nelson

I know these things to be true as well! I say these things, in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.

Love,

Sister Lacey