Week 10 - September 7

Transfer news...drum roll please...

Well isn't today just an exciting day?? If you haven't been told any of these things yet today, let me be the first to tell ya...happy labor day, happy p-day, happy birthday to my Brinlee Boo, and happy transfer week!!! Wow so many good things. 

Is everyone ready for my transfer news?? Ok, drum roll please...I will be staying here in Northport training a new missionary!!!! I am so excited! Only a wee bit nervous lol. Send prayers for your girl just getting out of training.

Our mission is getting 33 new missionaries and 19 new sisters!!!!!! If that doesn't tell ya the Lord is hastening his work than I don't know what is.

You and I are literally preparing a people to meet the Savior, Jesus Christ. He is coming! This time is precious as we prepare for His return. I feel honored to be His servant in these last days.

☆WEEKLY RUNDOWN☆

︎ Alabama football is in full swing baby! Tuscaloosa was a whole other city on Saturday. It's so fun watching all the fans flood the streets. #rolltide

︎ Exchanges with Sister Spackman! Got to experience YSA life and be on the college campus for a day. So many miracles and tender mercies. ️

︎ Usually we are the ones afraid of someone whipping out a gun on us, but the other day a man thought we were trying to pull out a gun on him haha. We were just trying to pull out a Book of Mormon, sir!

︎ Met Jada and Alerea and put them on baptism date our second lesson! They were smiling ear to ear thinking about getting baptized. They came to church on Sunday and felt the spirit super strong and felt like God was telling them this is where they need to be. Everyone, keep them in your prayers. We may have a couple things we need to work out lol.

︎ Broke our 5-week streak of getting 4 people to church :( God really blessed us in our efforts, though, and it was cool to watch that miracle each week.

︎ Had a really cool opportunity to visit with a lady that we met at Walmart over a month ago and her 19-year-old granddaughter who wrote a 14-page essay about our church. They are both devoted followers of Christ and are searching for truth! Although they do not agree with our beliefs, it was cool feeling the spirit in their home and in our discussion. They had many questions, and at the end of the day it didn't matter what we said in return, because their hearts were not open to letting more truth in. All I could do was share my testimony and my personal witness of the things that I know to be true. Hopefully they will remember that spirit as we bore witness. Because when you are feeling the spirit, that is a confirmation of truth!

♡THOUGHT ABOUT REPENTANCE

I am still thinking so much about zone conference. Sister Galland talked about repentance in a new perspective I have never thought of. This picture sums it up (shoutout Sis Hanks for the pic). I invite you to ponder about this picture and how it portrays repentance. The more I learn about it, the more I have learned to LOVE REPENTANCE. I need it just about every second of every day. When you truly come to understand what it is, you begin to realize it is a LIFESTYLE. It is the constant effort or turning to God to experience the ENABLING POWER OF JESUS CHRIST. Repentance is the WAY to experience the GIFT of the Savior and his atonement. Use it. Learn about it. Get repentance in the marrow of your bones so you can experience the Savior's love power and mercy in your own life. 

That's all from me this week, catch me next time for my trainee reveal hehe. If you have any training advice or good pranks to pull on my greenie lemme know. Also Sister Henry will be so missed and I am so grateful for her as my trainer!!!! Such a good first two transfers, I can't wait for what else is to come for the both of us.

Have a fantabulous week ya'll,

Love Sister Ekins