title quote courtesy of s j, my new greatest friend. discussion
topic: missionary work. fantastic. (she works at gas station and says everyone
she talks to is legit high or drunk. we said just to follow the Spirit.
hahaha.) :) :) :)
family, we have a problem. (or perhaps some would view it as a
solution........) i left my planner at home this day. so i do NOT have all my
notes of things i wanted to tell you. sad story. so we shall see how this goes
just from memory hahaha. :) :)
i would first like to mention a frustration of mine. it is this:
i canNOT share my oil!!!!!!!!! (matt. 25:1-9) it is very frustrating. i have so
many friends who have questions but do not really want answers, they just want
questions because then they will not have to change because then this gospel
cannot be true if they have questions. {also: false.} friends, i am sad for
you. i am sad because i know that this gospel is true. but i know it
for me. and i can't know it for you :( :( :( i have my own answers that are
mine, and as much as i want to just transplant them over to you and give you my
answers and have everything make crystal clear sense, that is not how this
agency game goes! all i can do is invite you to discover for yourself. you have
to do it! you have to get your own answers that are yours. YOU have to ask, and
YOU have to pray, and YOU have to study and press forward in faith. and you
have to want to know. i can't do any of that for you. i feel like elder aaron
in alma 22:22. i do everything i can to help you. i
invite you to stand. but at the end of the day..... you just have to do
it. but never fear, friends. i have confidence that you will stand.
and you will have so much joy & happiness when you do :) :) :)
also, would like you like to know something awesome this week?
"Our purpose in life is to find lasting peace, joy, and happiness as
families and to prepare to return to live with God." LET'S
JUST ALL SIT ON THAT FOR A MINUTE.
first of all, can we please just take an enormous
moment/lifetime of gratitude that WE LITERALLY KNOW THE PURPOSE OF
LIFE????????????????? yes, yes we can. :) J
also, can we please note that this plan of hApPiNeSs involves
happiness NOW and in eternity?????? not either/or????? we don't have to
be sad now so that we can be happy later, or happy now but sad later. BOTH
TIMES HAPPY TIMES. :) :) :) :) :) :) :) i LOVE that (obviously) and i KNOW that
it is true. i know, know, know it :) :) :) so let's tell everyone about this,
okay?? :) :)
also, i would like to mention that i love BYU. and i would like
to return there someday. so hopefully that works out..... haha. i just love
this gospel. so much. all I ever want to do is learn about it and talk about it
and teach it and live it and love it. so
that's the life plan we're going with right now :) :)
aaahhhhhh family so mad at myself for leaving my planner at home
right now!!!! i'm using sis blood's planner to help me remember things but she
mostly just writes down weird things i say so it's not so much helpful hahahah
:) :)
OH i remembered something. I JUST LOVE THE BOOK OF MORMON. okay?
okay. IT BRINGS THE SPIRIT SO MUCH. example a: teaching m p. you may recall
this is my friend who came to church on our first concussion sunday
as a tender mercy to show that the Lord had not forgotten us nor forsaken us
even though we were not able to tend the vineyard. yes. love her. anyways she
lives a kabillion miles away in the elder's area but their car got crunched
(they weren't in it at the time) so they were at the shop so long story short
they couldn't teach her on wednesday
so we did. and it was. legit. because i love the Book of Mormon and i love the
Spirit <3 <3 <3 all we did was read Mosiah 5 and talk about it. and
friends, that chapter is LEGIT. i love it now more than i did before. (the
Spirit'll do that to ya....) Mosiah 5:9, 12. just ponder for a moment what that
will feel like. aaaaaahhhh. :) :) :) #allthetears
#technicallyjustlikeonetearbutstill :) :) i just. love it. and also v. 15. and
also reading the Book of Mormon with friends and then inviting them to set a
goal and then commit to live it. because that. is. the best. #SPIRIT. :) :) :)
:) :) :) :)
also i love o. she's finna get BAPTIZED on
saturday and we are soooooooo excited. and she is so excited :) :) :) we
were reading Moroni 6 yesterday (always read the Book of Mormon with
friends!!!!) and talking about the baptismal interview questions, and we asked
if she was ready to make this covenant and strive to be faithful to it, and she
was like "YES, i've been waiting for two years!!!" hahaha. aaaaaaand
i love her and she's a miracle and so cute :) :) :) also, Spirit moment. are
you ready for this? (sad that you won't feel what i felt but that's okay i can
still tell you about it.) so we're getting ready to do paperwork-y stuff, which
is not that spiritual, but we read Moroni 6:4 -- "and their names were
taken, that they might be remembered" and i just felt it. in my
soul. O is going to be remembered. wherever she goes, whatever happens,
wherever she moves, there will be missionaries like us who will FIND HER (we
gon' find you!) and a ward family that she will be a part of. She is part of
the Church of Christ! She's gonna have visiting teachers and home teachers and
hold a calling and be a kingdom builder and i am soooooooo excited for
her!!!!!!!!!!! friends. this is what it's all about. building the kingdom of
God :) :) :) :) :) :) :)
speaking of which, we conducted a legit stake-out this week and
it led to a miracle. #wegonfindyou. :) :) :) friday
morning, we got dressed, grabbed our study stuff, and drove 20 minutes to s to
sit in front of our friend s's house and study until she got home. and then we
would ambush her. i was legit-ly afraid the neighbors were going to call the
cops on us and i was planning what we would say to them in my head. it's
whatever. the gospel is worth it. :) :) :) and, good news! she came home!!!!
and no one called the cops on us!! :) after a really awkward internal battle
for myself and sister blood which i will spare you the details on.......... we
made contact with the target. and my dear friend s is now my beloved friend.
and we hugged. and we came back the next day and taught her a lesson (nicely,
with the Book of Mormon and the Spirit, not with our fists......... that sounds
bad in this context hahah) and guess what?? she finna get baptized too :) :) :)
:) :) aaaaaaaaand i love her. and GOOD THING we stalked her down because she
was only home for legit 2 minutes and we would not have contacted her
otherwise. #muricle.
SPEAKING OF MIRACLES I WOULD LIKE TO INFORM YOU OF SOMETHING. my
bff j. do you remember him???? m d l s' husband whom i would attempt to teach
in spanish in appleton??????? HE IS FINNA GET BAPTIZED AS WELL.
#literallycryingtearsofjoy.
i do not know the details. but this is what has happened to me:
sister butler emailed me this day and said that she saw elder museus (whom i
love <3) and that HE told HER that jaimie is finna be baptized. and then i
l i t t e r a l l y started crying, at this computer, in the
library. because this. is. a legit. miracle. and i love him. and i love that
family. and i would like to know more details. and he's finna be baptized. and
it's a miracle. and i love this gospel. and i'm soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
sososososososososo happy for him. and for teaching the gospel in Spanish. and
for referrals that were the wrong person and all these things that i cannot
explain in an email but that let me know that God loves us. He loves all of us.
and He wants us to be HAPPY. that is why we do this :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)
:) :) :) :) forever!
well. i can't think of more things. i would like to end with a
story about s j because she is my bff. once upon a time s j is the world's
greatest human. she lives in a little apartment above a business and there's
another one in the same above-business-hallway-area and this neighbor has a
bathroom not attached to his house.... for some reason. so one time s j (i will
always call her by her full name <3) needed a plunger for the shower. or
something. so she used to just grab her neighbor's out of his bathroom and then
put it back before he noticed. but then one time she did this and when she went
to put it back............ he was in there.
so she felt really awkward about it. so she put a ribbon on
the plunger and put it on his doormat hahahahahahahha. and THEN she still felt
bad so she m a d e h i m c o o k i e s and put an articles
of faith card on the plate with them. and then she delivered them to him.
and she got all dressed up to do it. and then she told me this story and i
think i passed out on her floor laughing so hard hahahahahahahahahaha.
i hope you didn't have to be there. because this is the greatest
missionary moment story of my life hahahahahahahahaha. :) :) :) :) :) :) :) i
love her and i love missionary work and i love that the Lord knows our efforts
and blesses us for trying hahaha. and i just LOVE HER. and i love all the
friends of oconomowoc and the kettle moraine ward. they are just so lovely :)
:) :)
i know i said i was done but i would like to mention just a few
more things <3
once upon a saturday
we were contacting old potentials and formers and we discovered another
appropriate missionary quote, this time from "my big fat greek
wedding." -- "look who's back agaaaainnnn!" :) we say it all the
time to each other, waiting on doorsteps. because yes, we are back again. back
to bring you this blessed and beautiful restored gospel that will bless and
change your life. true story. hahaha. :) :)
i would also like to mention that we met a new friend t and he
was leaving his house when we talked to him but then an awkward amount of time
later we saw him in the same neighborhood potentially breaking into someone's
house..... hahahaha. #missionlifeisweirdlife
#heprobablyhadpermissionhejustlookedreallyweird:) :)
also i am grateful for sister blood. always laugh to death on
weird saturdays. always take pictures of the beautiful sunset. the Lord loves
us. He really, really does :) :) :)
i love all of you, family. i love this gospel. i know that it's
true. i am so happy. :) :) :) :) :) this is the plan of happiness. peace
and joy now are possible for all of us, regardless of our circumstances.
eternal life in the world to come???????? yeaahhhhh babyyyy. let's do it :) :)
:) :) :)
LOVE YOU SO SO MUCH
Xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxox
sister proffit :) :) :)
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