HEYO!!!!!!!
So still doing great - we are teaching this lady named Kristin
who is from somewhere in West Africa and she speaks French and a little English
so we have been relying on the French pamphlets to teach her! But we also have French speakers in the ward that help! Also Sister Codling and I will be
staying together another Transfer and will be together for at least
Thanksgiving and Christmas! So that's exciting!
So I read this talk called "Becoming the Person You
Were Born to Be" by Wendy Watson Nelson given at a Worldwide Devotional
for young adults at the beginning of this Year and It has helped change the way
I look at the Atonement and how to be able to access it. It talks about the
women who had an incurable disease for 12 years stretched forth her hand to the Savior this being the only chance for her to be healed. She also mentions other
things but they all have to do with being DESPERATE for the Savior to heal
them... etc. She goes on to say " Gratefully, the Savior has paid the
price for every gift of the Spirit we will ever need to help us. It’s up to
us to prayerfully discover which gifts we need. We may need the gift of
self-discipline or of cheerfulness. Perhaps we need the gift of patience, or
the gift to be healed, or the gift to forgive......Perhaps we realize that we
cannot live one more minute without the gift of unshakable faith in our Lord
Jesus Christ. When we’re desperate for any gift of the Spirit, that is when we
will finally pray with all the energy of heart for that gift. And the great
news is that each spiritual gift we receive takes us one more step forward into
our true selves."
So I read this and thought about me and how I got into the
car accident back in January (Sorry I never told anyone about it besides my
family) and how I've had a lot of back and neck pain that came from it. I Knew
that my Savior had suffered this pain for me but I just didn't know how to use
it... I would read the Scripture Alma 7:11-12 over and over again knowing that he can succor me but how?
11 And he shall go forth, suffering pains and affliction and temptations of every kind; and this that the word might be fulfilled which saith he will take upon him the pains and the sicknesses of his people.
12 And he will take upon him death, that he may loose the bands of death which bind his people; and he will take upon him their infirmities, that his bowels may be filled with mercy, according to the flesh, that he may know according to the flesh how to succor his people according to their infirmities.
Well when I read this I figured Yes I am Desperate for this pain to go
away that hasn't for months! So a few days ago I started to Pray to my loving
Heavenly Father For Divine help because I'm desperate for this to go away!!!! I
would pray for the Gift of the Spirit to be Healed and this morning when I woke
up it was the first time in forever that I woke up not feeling super sore and
achy all over. And I know that that has nothing to do with the Physical Therapy
I've been getting recently but Everything to do with My Savior who its truly
lifting this burden and Helping me to understand the Atonement to a whole other
level! I love my Savior and I truly am nothing without him leading and guiding
me every second of the day!
--
Sister Beck
Pic 1 Tacoma South Zone! doing the ASL sign of S! With the
amazing President and Sister Blatter!
Pic 2 Sister Codling and I!
Pic 3 Knocking with Rachel Nhem! (Half Cambodian!)
Pic 4 Our zone picture at Zone meeting! I'm going to miss
those that will be leaving us/going home!
Pic 5 for those that get enough of us knocking at their
door....
Pic 6 this is what my cute study desk looks like!
Pictures posted from the Wa-Tac blog
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