So we're gonna do two separate emails cause the server went defective last week. Quote from a lady we taught who was trying to convince her roommate to come down and join us. :)
Sidenote: While most of the previous quotes were in a backwoods Southern accent, most of the current one will be city-dwelling black folks. Love it! :)
Ok, lots to say.
P-day adventure:
Sis Jones and I went to help Sis Reed (a senior missionary doing welfare service here) clean her blinds. Quite the adventure! Who even knew you were supposed to clean blinds. It invovled nothing short of disassembling every blind in the house, mixing together many chemicals (which, i'm no housekeeper but i'm pretty sure was borderline toxic...) and hosing the blinds down in the shower. it was truly a grand adventure. preceded by a blissful hilly run in the rain and proceeded by amazing mango chicken fajitas from Sis Reed. Don't worry though that we forgot many crucial parts of our missionary clothes to change back into for our lesson we went to afterwards so that was an adventure!
"TALL PAUL" GUNSTONE
So we went to teach this guy who was baptized a few years ago but hasn't been to church in a couple years. we went into his house and he's like 6' 11" and has a knife collection on his wall. for work he organizes poker tournaments. what the? but we went and visited with him. for as gruff as he seems he's also actually a poet and after we came and taught him more about the gospel, he just kept thanking us for coming and helping him to feel again what he'd felt before when he realized these things are true. he wants his wife to get baptized and to raise his little baby in the church. see, the gospel IS for everyone. :)
THE SNICKERS CHALLENGE
so there's this family in the ward who with every new missionary forces them to eat 3 ice cream snicker's bars before they can leave their house. (after forcing them to eat a ridiculously huge meal). they shout things at you in their crazy haitan accents like, "come on, a baby could eat that!" until you do it. what? but don't worry, i'd been training my whole life for that moment. i intentionally ate my meal super slow so they wouldn't notice i hadn't eaten a ton, and then pounded away 3 snickers ice cream bars. i mean, when else in my life could i have done that without feeling guilty? not that it didn't still involve a tummy ache after. :) and to think, my family mocked me for being addicted to desserts.
STEVEN
Teaching Steven is such a dream. Getting him ready for baptism took almost no effort on our part. he'd read more than we gave him and he'd tell us all about what he learned. he took notes at every lesson. if we hadn't called him that day to check in, he'd call us. he always had really thought-provoking questions and thoughts. and he was coming from a non-Christian background. this kid is AMAZING!!!! he was worried about being able to keep the sabbath day holy cause it's the only day he doesn't work or go to school. he's seriously going non-stop. but he knows the Lord will help him. oh, he called me to see if since his parents said he might not be able to go to all of church every week since they said family and the family business come first, if he could still get baptized. what?! this kid is so hard-core. if only we were all that serious about our commitments we make to God. he knows this is a lifelong commitment that is to be made with his whole heart and that he is to be as obedient to God's commandments as possible. he's such a champ! i'm so excited for the amazing things he's going to do as a member of the church!
Lilburn is still great. sis jones and i are loving every minute serving here! :)happy easter wishes! :)
--sis c
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
"You have the best job in the world"
Quote from our investigator Kelly. I think she's right.
LOPEZ FAM
the lopez family is so rad. they've been through LOTS of hard stuff adn it seems to keep coming but kelly is ready for some big-time changes. she knows what we're teaching her about is true and even though she still has some major things to work out to prepare her for baptism, she tells us about how she has felt closer to God these last few weeks than ever in her life. she keeps coming to church and on easter her husband jose finally came with her. he loved it and decided he wants to come with her every week. she started crying. :)i sat in sunday school with her daughter Lani (who just moved back into the house and has never been to church a day in her life until easter). we had a lesson all about faith in Jesus Christ and Lani asked an awesome deep question about how if we need to have faith in Christ, doesn't He have faith in us? so cool to think about. I know that He does because He sent us here in the first place. He knows we can be successful or this whole plan for us to come back to our Father in Heaven wouldn't even exist. They didn't send us here to fail. they gave us the gift of agency or choice so that we could CHOOSE to follow our Savior and His commandments. i love that she thought of it from that perspective. we're excited to start teaching Lani. it's a little tricky cause we're 5 of the people in that home and they're all really at different places right now, but they will all be so strengthened by the gospel. i'm excited to see the changes that come into their lives and they let them.
STEVEN'S BAPTISM
of course, every bit as amazing as everything else about teaching him. it was such a beatiful baptism. the best part was that the ward members totally took control. the whole thing was planned and orchestrated by the youth. they even made the programs. tanner, one of the 16-yr old boys from the ward baptized him and it was all just so awesome. steven was so excited the whole time. that week on the phone he'd tell us how excited he was getting. we asked him how he felt after the baptism and he said "like i'm home."the next day at his confirmation the blessing talked mostly about his family and how he would be able to help them grow closer together in love. he was so humbled by the whole thing. the Lord really will use him to do amazing things!last night he called us just to let us know he was doing good adn that since sunday it's been easier not to make the same kind of mistakes and fall into the same kind of temptations that he would before. he said that now if he almost says a curse word or the Lord's name in vain he stops and thinks of something else to say. he can totally tell the difference having the gift of the Holy Ghost in his life. :)
TIFFANY BLAS
...is amazing! (I know, i never use that adjective...). her husband is a member of the church but hasn't been in years. (she didn't even know he was until we stopped by :) ) she has three boys and works 2 jobs. crazy busy as you can imagine. we haven't even really been able to teach her a sit-down lesson yet because there's constant chaos and schedule shuffling but since we've started visiting she's started having family prayer (without us even suggesting it). i told her about having couple prayer with her husband adn she got all excited about that. she really wants them all to come to church next week. they were supposed to come on easter but were worried cause the boys had grown out of their church pants. :( i let her know it really didn't matter what they came in and that it was more important that they came. she's excited to read the Book of Mormon and said when we call tonight she wants to tell us about what she's read. :)
EASTER
we had easter dinner twice. the Lopez fam invited us over for Puerto Rican food adn a lesson and then we went straight to the stake presidents house for a lesson and an amazing lesson with Steven adn his little bro. the first part of the lesson involved some kind of logic thing where they were tied up and had to get out. steven is SUPER smart (he explains that he's not super smart, he's just asian :) ) so he was adament that they could get out of the ropes. it was hilarious watching them try. totally reminded me of something scott would've done. the point of the game was that they needed to humble themselves and ASK for help so we read a scripture about ASK and ye shall receive. but even once steven understood the spiritual lesson behind it he was still too stuck on being able to figure it out with his own logic. made the lesson even more appropriate about how we can be so stubborn trying to do things on our own before asking God for direction. luckily, in spiritual matters Steven is very un-stubborn. :) we're going to start teaching his brother next week.
COOL RANDOM FIND
so we felt like we should go tract on a specific street and when we went we found a girl named Jessica who doesn't even live there but was dog-sitting. she was so excited about everything we shared and to hear that there's a prophet on the earth today. the Spirit was so strong as we were talking, witnessing then and there that the message we shared was from the Lord-not from us or from man's ideas. while talking to her, her cell phone went off. usually that's a distraction from the Spirit but it was playing a song that was some Christian song and the chorus said "God is all around us..." She almost started crying. it was way cool. she doesn't live in our area but we're gonna go back and meet her boyfriend who's house it was when he gets back in town. way cool girl. she's very close to the Spirit and relies on the Lord for direction adn answers in her life.
DESTINY AND SUNSHINE
There's lots to write about them but i gotta go. they're the kids who've grown up knowing virutally nothing about God. i asked sunshine the other day what her favorite thing was that she's learned so far since we've been coming over adn she said, in her quite, ultra-shy voice, "what Jesus did for us." blew me away. i'm so humbled by these kids that have such a love of God and are so anxious to feel their Savior's love that they will put all of the things of the world aside. love them, love them.
wow, longest email ever, but there was lots to say. anyone who reads this whole thing gets 10 points (or it's 2 in the morning and you're doing anything but going to bed...go to bed.)
love you all!
--sis c
LOPEZ FAM
the lopez family is so rad. they've been through LOTS of hard stuff adn it seems to keep coming but kelly is ready for some big-time changes. she knows what we're teaching her about is true and even though she still has some major things to work out to prepare her for baptism, she tells us about how she has felt closer to God these last few weeks than ever in her life. she keeps coming to church and on easter her husband jose finally came with her. he loved it and decided he wants to come with her every week. she started crying. :)i sat in sunday school with her daughter Lani (who just moved back into the house and has never been to church a day in her life until easter). we had a lesson all about faith in Jesus Christ and Lani asked an awesome deep question about how if we need to have faith in Christ, doesn't He have faith in us? so cool to think about. I know that He does because He sent us here in the first place. He knows we can be successful or this whole plan for us to come back to our Father in Heaven wouldn't even exist. They didn't send us here to fail. they gave us the gift of agency or choice so that we could CHOOSE to follow our Savior and His commandments. i love that she thought of it from that perspective. we're excited to start teaching Lani. it's a little tricky cause we're 5 of the people in that home and they're all really at different places right now, but they will all be so strengthened by the gospel. i'm excited to see the changes that come into their lives and they let them.
STEVEN'S BAPTISM
of course, every bit as amazing as everything else about teaching him. it was such a beatiful baptism. the best part was that the ward members totally took control. the whole thing was planned and orchestrated by the youth. they even made the programs. tanner, one of the 16-yr old boys from the ward baptized him and it was all just so awesome. steven was so excited the whole time. that week on the phone he'd tell us how excited he was getting. we asked him how he felt after the baptism and he said "like i'm home."the next day at his confirmation the blessing talked mostly about his family and how he would be able to help them grow closer together in love. he was so humbled by the whole thing. the Lord really will use him to do amazing things!last night he called us just to let us know he was doing good adn that since sunday it's been easier not to make the same kind of mistakes and fall into the same kind of temptations that he would before. he said that now if he almost says a curse word or the Lord's name in vain he stops and thinks of something else to say. he can totally tell the difference having the gift of the Holy Ghost in his life. :)
TIFFANY BLAS
...is amazing! (I know, i never use that adjective...). her husband is a member of the church but hasn't been in years. (she didn't even know he was until we stopped by :) ) she has three boys and works 2 jobs. crazy busy as you can imagine. we haven't even really been able to teach her a sit-down lesson yet because there's constant chaos and schedule shuffling but since we've started visiting she's started having family prayer (without us even suggesting it). i told her about having couple prayer with her husband adn she got all excited about that. she really wants them all to come to church next week. they were supposed to come on easter but were worried cause the boys had grown out of their church pants. :( i let her know it really didn't matter what they came in and that it was more important that they came. she's excited to read the Book of Mormon and said when we call tonight she wants to tell us about what she's read. :)
EASTER
we had easter dinner twice. the Lopez fam invited us over for Puerto Rican food adn a lesson and then we went straight to the stake presidents house for a lesson and an amazing lesson with Steven adn his little bro. the first part of the lesson involved some kind of logic thing where they were tied up and had to get out. steven is SUPER smart (he explains that he's not super smart, he's just asian :) ) so he was adament that they could get out of the ropes. it was hilarious watching them try. totally reminded me of something scott would've done. the point of the game was that they needed to humble themselves and ASK for help so we read a scripture about ASK and ye shall receive. but even once steven understood the spiritual lesson behind it he was still too stuck on being able to figure it out with his own logic. made the lesson even more appropriate about how we can be so stubborn trying to do things on our own before asking God for direction. luckily, in spiritual matters Steven is very un-stubborn. :) we're going to start teaching his brother next week.
COOL RANDOM FIND
so we felt like we should go tract on a specific street and when we went we found a girl named Jessica who doesn't even live there but was dog-sitting. she was so excited about everything we shared and to hear that there's a prophet on the earth today. the Spirit was so strong as we were talking, witnessing then and there that the message we shared was from the Lord-not from us or from man's ideas. while talking to her, her cell phone went off. usually that's a distraction from the Spirit but it was playing a song that was some Christian song and the chorus said "God is all around us..." She almost started crying. it was way cool. she doesn't live in our area but we're gonna go back and meet her boyfriend who's house it was when he gets back in town. way cool girl. she's very close to the Spirit and relies on the Lord for direction adn answers in her life.
DESTINY AND SUNSHINE
There's lots to write about them but i gotta go. they're the kids who've grown up knowing virutally nothing about God. i asked sunshine the other day what her favorite thing was that she's learned so far since we've been coming over adn she said, in her quite, ultra-shy voice, "what Jesus did for us." blew me away. i'm so humbled by these kids that have such a love of God and are so anxious to feel their Savior's love that they will put all of the things of the world aside. love them, love them.
wow, longest email ever, but there was lots to say. anyone who reads this whole thing gets 10 points (or it's 2 in the morning and you're doing anything but going to bed...go to bed.)
love you all!
--sis c
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
"Heavenly Father is really...nice."
ah! only 10 min left adn SO much to write. quote is from sis jones. her profound statement after comtemplating all the miracles we've seen this week. :) love it!
too many stories to tell. most of the cool things happening are with kids or teenagers.
MASONS
this family the parents are memebers of the chruch but haven't been for yrs. the kids are both not and know close to nothing about God. sad. so we visited them-- 16 yr-old boy named destiny and 14-yr old girl named sunshine. we've taught them just a little so far but we gave destiny a chapter in the book of mormon to read and he read 10. no big deal. he said it made him feel good and confident because he felt like it's what the Lord wants him to do. rock on! now if the parents will get in gear enough to get these amazing kids to church. man. i've really come to see the weighty respinsibility parents have to raise their kids in righteousness. but these kids are awesome. they want to be baptized so we'll pray the parents will not be holding them back in any way.(yes, the library in lilburn doesn't have Word so i can't use auto-correct options anymore. embrace the typos caise i am. :) )
LOPEZ FAM
this family has tons and tons of drama going on but at the same time, they're finally coming to understand the gospel. the best is the 8-yr old boy elijah. he remembers EVERYTHING. they came to chruch just once and he was telling us all about joseph smith and about a story in the book of mormon where a man keeps challenging God for a sign and is struck dead. then he would borrow our flip chart that has a list that tells you how to pray so he could practice. on his 2nd sunday at church he said the prayer in primary (the meeting for all the little kids). oh! and he held up a picture in of the Savior in Gethsemane and explained to us how this is when Jesus suffered so that we could all be protected and become strong. what?! he's such a champ and really the most spiritually prepared of the whole bunch. love him! and the teenage daughter has had a little bit of a "too cool" attitude until now. she;s become way involved with the youth and really wants to understand what's being taught. we finally got to teach her one-on-one the other day. then a few days later we were teaching her dad and she walked in and we asked her to explain what a prophet was and she was like..."someone who connects us to God...like...the pen thing! she them the pen thing! (this object lesson we showed her)." then she said "like Thomas S. Monson." so precious! their fam has been through a LOT and it's so cool to see the gospel heal them.oh, my other favoritte thing about the Lopez is the 3-yr old Annabell. she was learning my name and the names of the people in pictures we'd show. the only problem was that some of them morphed in her head. "sis cartwright" became "rice" and joseph smith was "sniff." haha! then last visit i'd become "mister cartwright," which i guess is closer. :) she's so fun.
STEPHEN
this kid is such an example to me. seriously. so he asked his LDS friend at school if he could come to church with her cause he thought it sounded interesting. since then he's come 3 times. we just barely started teaching him and the first appointment he was listening and taking notes in the back of his Book of Mormon. what a champ! i love seeing people who get it and who want to get it. when they're really desiring answers, the Lord will really work in them.so yeah, those are the miracles. love it! sis jones is so happy cause she said there's so much going on finally. she's had a few really slow tranfers before this. i told her it's cause Heavenly Father knows i only have 6 months to be proselyting so He's blessing me to make them really full. seriously, we've stayed so busy every transfer. but i've had amazing, obedient companions who want to work as hard as they can so it's been so cool to see all the blessings.
anyway, better go. love you all!
--sis c
too many stories to tell. most of the cool things happening are with kids or teenagers.
MASONS
this family the parents are memebers of the chruch but haven't been for yrs. the kids are both not and know close to nothing about God. sad. so we visited them-- 16 yr-old boy named destiny and 14-yr old girl named sunshine. we've taught them just a little so far but we gave destiny a chapter in the book of mormon to read and he read 10. no big deal. he said it made him feel good and confident because he felt like it's what the Lord wants him to do. rock on! now if the parents will get in gear enough to get these amazing kids to church. man. i've really come to see the weighty respinsibility parents have to raise their kids in righteousness. but these kids are awesome. they want to be baptized so we'll pray the parents will not be holding them back in any way.(yes, the library in lilburn doesn't have Word so i can't use auto-correct options anymore. embrace the typos caise i am. :) )
LOPEZ FAM
this family has tons and tons of drama going on but at the same time, they're finally coming to understand the gospel. the best is the 8-yr old boy elijah. he remembers EVERYTHING. they came to chruch just once and he was telling us all about joseph smith and about a story in the book of mormon where a man keeps challenging God for a sign and is struck dead. then he would borrow our flip chart that has a list that tells you how to pray so he could practice. on his 2nd sunday at church he said the prayer in primary (the meeting for all the little kids). oh! and he held up a picture in of the Savior in Gethsemane and explained to us how this is when Jesus suffered so that we could all be protected and become strong. what?! he's such a champ and really the most spiritually prepared of the whole bunch. love him! and the teenage daughter has had a little bit of a "too cool" attitude until now. she;s become way involved with the youth and really wants to understand what's being taught. we finally got to teach her one-on-one the other day. then a few days later we were teaching her dad and she walked in and we asked her to explain what a prophet was and she was like..."someone who connects us to God...like...the pen thing! she them the pen thing! (this object lesson we showed her)." then she said "like Thomas S. Monson." so precious! their fam has been through a LOT and it's so cool to see the gospel heal them.oh, my other favoritte thing about the Lopez is the 3-yr old Annabell. she was learning my name and the names of the people in pictures we'd show. the only problem was that some of them morphed in her head. "sis cartwright" became "rice" and joseph smith was "sniff." haha! then last visit i'd become "mister cartwright," which i guess is closer. :) she's so fun.
STEPHEN
this kid is such an example to me. seriously. so he asked his LDS friend at school if he could come to church with her cause he thought it sounded interesting. since then he's come 3 times. we just barely started teaching him and the first appointment he was listening and taking notes in the back of his Book of Mormon. what a champ! i love seeing people who get it and who want to get it. when they're really desiring answers, the Lord will really work in them.so yeah, those are the miracles. love it! sis jones is so happy cause she said there's so much going on finally. she's had a few really slow tranfers before this. i told her it's cause Heavenly Father knows i only have 6 months to be proselyting so He's blessing me to make them really full. seriously, we've stayed so busy every transfer. but i've had amazing, obedient companions who want to work as hard as they can so it's been so cool to see all the blessings.
anyway, better go. love you all!
--sis c
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
"All of your sorrows will soon vanish"
TRANSFERS....
so we didn't think transfers would be a big deal so i hadn't even mentioned they're coming up. we didn't figure i would get transfered for my last 6 weeks here, esp. since the number of sisters in the mission was staying exactly the same, but apparently the Lord had other plans.
LEAVING CANTON
we found out mon night that i was leaving (complete shock to us) so tues i packed and we saw some investigators to teach/say goodbye. some people i just had to call, most people will just find out later. we got to see warren (the "grumpy" one) and ellery and tried to see melanie and frances. but yeah, it was really neat to realize a little bit more how much effect a mission is on other people. really surprising and humbling. i'm very grateful for the people i've met here.
SIS BECKER
i left sis b (and what had become half my wardrobe) so she could train the new sis. she's amazing and it was a blissful 6 weeks serving with her. the subject line though was from the dinner the night before we left and that was her fortune so we were laughing hysterically about it. apparently she was secrectly wishing i'd leave this whole time. :)
ARRIVED IN...
so...i'm in Lilburn, GA. good times! the best part is my comp is Sis jones who used to serve in hickory flat so she lived in my same apt so we already loved each other and dreamed about being comps one day. so it was awesome news when we learned we were together.
CANTON VS. LILBURN
the area is WAY different from Canton. canton is a little bit more authentically southern. well, a lot more actually. some may call it "neck." but here there's like every culture imaginable represented. i hear you can knock on 10 doors and find people from like 10 diff countries. the other big difference is while there's a TON of work going on in canton, lilburn is historically a little "slower" so we're excited to get it going more. sis jones is an AMAZING missionary (i can't stress that enough) so it shouldn't be too hard.
THE WORK
there's luckily still a ton going on in canton. we did have one day that felt particularly unproductive because it was more meeting people who took the opportunity to pray for us to straighten out our messed up minds. :) but they were still amazing, very faithful people who've got very strong values. oh! one way cool story. we were tracting and went up to this group of adults in a driveway and talked to this latin woman and gave her a card to order a free book of mormon and told her just a little about it. as we walked away she looked at it and we heard her say under her breath "i need this." we looked at each other and turned right back around and went and told her more and got a return appt. i won't know what happens with her because i left but hopefully the Lord will continue to prepare her.
LETTERS/MAIL
the library facilities are much sketchier here so now i can't really print out my emails like before and stuff and we have less time on the computer. so now i prefer letters versus emails if it doesn't make a difference to you all. y'all.
the address here the same as the mission office:
1150 Cole Dr. SW
Lilburn, GA 30047
k, better go but i love you all! thanks for everything. i'll leave you with a scripture. i'm not gonnna remember excactly but it was in 1 corinthians 13:9 or something. i think. or i'm way off. but it talked abuot zealously seeking after spiritual gifts for the purpose of building up the kingdom of God. i thought that was a cool reminder. we all have spiritual gifts (even if we sometimes don't feel like it) and it's vital we use them for doing the Lord's work in the way He wants us too. then we also know there are definately areas where we're weak adn we'd like to be better at. we are commanded to seek after those spiritual gifts--as long as it's for the sake of serving the Lord. it will take time adn often MUCH effort on our part but the Lord will grant them to us because He seeks to make us better instruments to serve His children.
gotta go. love you all!
--sis c
so we didn't think transfers would be a big deal so i hadn't even mentioned they're coming up. we didn't figure i would get transfered for my last 6 weeks here, esp. since the number of sisters in the mission was staying exactly the same, but apparently the Lord had other plans.
LEAVING CANTON
we found out mon night that i was leaving (complete shock to us) so tues i packed and we saw some investigators to teach/say goodbye. some people i just had to call, most people will just find out later. we got to see warren (the "grumpy" one) and ellery and tried to see melanie and frances. but yeah, it was really neat to realize a little bit more how much effect a mission is on other people. really surprising and humbling. i'm very grateful for the people i've met here.
SIS BECKER
i left sis b (and what had become half my wardrobe) so she could train the new sis. she's amazing and it was a blissful 6 weeks serving with her. the subject line though was from the dinner the night before we left and that was her fortune so we were laughing hysterically about it. apparently she was secrectly wishing i'd leave this whole time. :)
ARRIVED IN...
so...i'm in Lilburn, GA. good times! the best part is my comp is Sis jones who used to serve in hickory flat so she lived in my same apt so we already loved each other and dreamed about being comps one day. so it was awesome news when we learned we were together.
CANTON VS. LILBURN
the area is WAY different from Canton. canton is a little bit more authentically southern. well, a lot more actually. some may call it "neck." but here there's like every culture imaginable represented. i hear you can knock on 10 doors and find people from like 10 diff countries. the other big difference is while there's a TON of work going on in canton, lilburn is historically a little "slower" so we're excited to get it going more. sis jones is an AMAZING missionary (i can't stress that enough) so it shouldn't be too hard.
THE WORK
there's luckily still a ton going on in canton. we did have one day that felt particularly unproductive because it was more meeting people who took the opportunity to pray for us to straighten out our messed up minds. :) but they were still amazing, very faithful people who've got very strong values. oh! one way cool story. we were tracting and went up to this group of adults in a driveway and talked to this latin woman and gave her a card to order a free book of mormon and told her just a little about it. as we walked away she looked at it and we heard her say under her breath "i need this." we looked at each other and turned right back around and went and told her more and got a return appt. i won't know what happens with her because i left but hopefully the Lord will continue to prepare her.
LETTERS/MAIL
the library facilities are much sketchier here so now i can't really print out my emails like before and stuff and we have less time on the computer. so now i prefer letters versus emails if it doesn't make a difference to you all. y'all.
the address here the same as the mission office:
1150 Cole Dr. SW
Lilburn, GA 30047
k, better go but i love you all! thanks for everything. i'll leave you with a scripture. i'm not gonnna remember excactly but it was in 1 corinthians 13:9 or something. i think. or i'm way off. but it talked abuot zealously seeking after spiritual gifts for the purpose of building up the kingdom of God. i thought that was a cool reminder. we all have spiritual gifts (even if we sometimes don't feel like it) and it's vital we use them for doing the Lord's work in the way He wants us too. then we also know there are definately areas where we're weak adn we'd like to be better at. we are commanded to seek after those spiritual gifts--as long as it's for the sake of serving the Lord. it will take time adn often MUCH effort on our part but the Lord will grant them to us because He seeks to make us better instruments to serve His children.
gotta go. love you all!
--sis c
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