My opportunity to serve & my priviledge to share!

I have been CALLED to SERVE in church!!!! 

I am super excited to be the Hallmark Ward's new GOSPEL PRINCIPLES teacher! For those non mormons out there, A calling in church is when you are asked to volunteer your time and talents to help serve the congregation by teaching, leading, and serving those who live in your area. EVERYONE in our church is a 100% volunteer. NO ONE IS PAID. All the leaders and teachers in our churches and temples are there because they want to be. So now every Sunday for one hour I'm going to be teaching a class for those who are interested in the church, newly baptized members, and those who have recently become active in attending church again.

I am so grateful for this opportunity and I am striving to learn as much as I can each week to prepare to teach those adults in my class! I love serving and have definitely seen the blessings that it brings into others lives as well as my own.

I have now been teaching for two weeks and I am still as nervous as ever during my entire lesson. I feel like I learn more from my class than they learn from me, hopefully I can return the favor someday. For now though, I will soak up all the lessons I can! I love having my Testimony of the Savior and my Heavenly Father grow each and every week. I have already had many answers to prayers come from stories, comments, or a scripture that is shared during my lessons.

I love the truths that are taught in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Honestly they are so simple and clear. It is insane how twisted people can make it seem, but when I am reading the words of the prophets & scriptures, I feel in my heart a comfort and peace that can only come from the light of my Heavenly Father. It is through these sweet and tender experiences that I know that God lives and He love me. I know that Jesus Christ is my elder brother and that He loves me. I know that I am a LITERAL daughter of God. I know that God has not forsaken this world and that He still gives us guidance and instructions through a prophet today. He loves His children and wants us ALL to live with Him again through the power of forgiveness and through the atonement of Jesus Christ. I feel both of their love every single day. I know that through making and keeping sacred covenants with my Heavenly Father that I have the potential to be with Him again after this life. I also believe that through the power of those same covenants I will be with my family FOREVER. I know this life is hard sometimes and it is easy to complain, but I know that by letting Heavenly Father and Christ into my life I have felt miracles lift my heart and it has made even my biggest trials seem small. I know that my Church teaches truth,  not because I have been told, but because I have asked God myself. I have asked Him through the power of prayer and I testify to you that I received a very clear answer to that question.

I invite everyone who is feeling lost, afraid, confused, or like something is missing in their life to let God in. The peace and joy you will feel is unparalleled by anything the world can offer you. If you have questions about anything I have previously mentioned PLEASE let me know or search the answers to some previously asked questions at this website, or better yet, ask the Lord for answers and He will answer them.