From: Jessica Fisher [mailto:jessica.fisher@myldsmail.net]
Monday, May 20, 2013

 

Not-so-wild Turkeys, God answers prayers, the third gravel road, Cowboy Realty and 700 people

 
Welcome to Wyoming!

 

 This place has such gorgeous skies, but only has 300 people in town.

Here's the home of one of the members we visited, with their home-raised turkeys in the back yard. I kid you not!

 

 

 One of the houses we stay at uses horseshoes and other rusty tools to hold up all the cabinets etc. It's pretty hysterical and clever! 

 The local Realtor --"Cowboy Realty"!

We have the smallest area in the whole mission. We cover three towns:  Burlington, Wyoming (which has approximately 300 people in town), Otto (which has 50 people as the population on the sign), and the beautiful town of Meeteetse (approximately 200 people) (try and say that fast ten times!). They are approximately 30 miles from each other, in North Central Wyoming,  so we have to try and plan out when we visit them. It’s also an interesting challenge because most of the population (around 40-50%) are baptized members, active or less active. Just a really interesting place. But I will say, I feel like I’m in one of the most beautiful places on the planet, because there are so few people out here so there’s so much beautiful nature all around us, wide open spaces, gorgeous exposed sky all the time, breezes, and you can rarely hear cars ever. After our first lesson we taught the night I came out last Wednesday, I walked outside and just listened... and only heard cows, a few dogs barking way off in the distance and crickets, .... very different from the cement jungle of Salt Lake City (which isn't really that large to begin with).

Another struggle that’s unique to our area is finding people in general. We have plenty of people to hunt down and teach, so the searching aspect of “finding” new investigators or less actives isn’t too hard, it’s the actual physically finding people’s addresses that is difficult, particularly in Otto and Meeteetse. When we asked the Bishop where one person lived, he literally gave us this as the directions: “It’s after the big bridge on your way to the highway, the third MAIN gravel road on your right.” We just looked at him and said- "Wait, what?" So basically in these small towns, there’s not really addresses, and everybody knows where everybody else lives, so no need for them. But we get landmarks all the time, like, “They’re the white house with the red car and the crackled tree, next to the old post office.” So anyway, it’s going to take a while getting to know where people live.

There are some of the most wonderful people in the 150 miles around here. I’m impressed with their faith, genuine love, hard work and patience, and down to earth hospitality. Recently, we taught a less active lady who lives far away from town and she was just telling us about her concern about the lack of rain and how the farmers need the rain. We promised her that if she prayed and asked specifically for the things that she is in need of, that the Lord does hear and answer prayers, and takes care of the lilies of the field and the birds- so of course He would take care of her, His precious daughter. 

So we prayed for rain and had the faith that miracles would come from it. Little did we know just how well. The next day there were storm clouds around and it started sprinkling rain. Sister W (my new comp) and I realized that we should have been more specific, and so that day prayed for enough rain that the farmers wouldn’t be concerned. The next three days were then filled with storms and almost constant rain. Each day we prayed with gratitude for the answer to our prayer and look forward to going back to visit that wonderful sister and help her recognize the immense blessing and talk more about faith.

We also found out what in the world the Sister Training Leaders (us) are supposed to do! We conduct regular exchanges with all the sister missionaries in the two zones that we cover. I’m currently on an exchange right now with Sister T in a place called Lovell, about 45 minutes from Burlington. It’s neat being in a place that actually has a grocery store and a gas pump, and a few restaurants. (None of our towns have that!)

Another neat thing is we had Stake Conference this weekend. Here’s some of the notes that I took. Maybe they can benefit you!

“Missionaries aren’t going to China yet. Why? Because they’re going to Meeteetse, to Allen, Texas, to Salt Lake City, to Burlington, to many other places where the Church is strong. Why? Because there’s still a work there to do. The Lord won’t send them out to un-harvested places, until we all step up and do the work where we are right now.”

The Temple President talked about so many people who come to the Temple without their spiritual eyes on. He told of a class in college he taught about bird watching. When he walked to class one day, he counted at least 10 types of birds all around him right by the school. He then asked his students what birds they saw right before they came into the classroom. Only one person said they saw a bird, a blue jay. The Temple President likened it unto us when he then asked us, “Do we have our spiritual eyes open? Heavenly Father doesn’t change. Spiritual truth is all around us. We must be looking for those things. We must prepare. We must open our eyes to the truth all around us.”

(Good to remember) 

Pray for us as we set up our areas and find those people prepared to teach. 

Love y'all so much,

Sister Fisher 

 

 

. A bird house made out of old licence plates. Hahaha!

 

What we see all the time in Montana... not sure what Wyoming looks like though :) 

 

Just some antelope roaming right by the road and in "suburbia". 

 

GORGEOUS sunset  

From: Jessica Fisher [mailto:jessica.fisher@myldsmail.net]
Monday, May 13, 2013
Transfer 8, week 2: I'm moving to Wyoming!

 Dear Family,

 This morning the Assistants called and I'm being transfer to Wyoming. HAHA! 

The Billings Montana Mission includes the northern part of Wyoming, so I'm leaving for there tomorrow and I'm becoming a Training Sister (the new leadership thing for sister missionaries, basically the Sister version of a Zone Leader) where my new companion and I (Sister W) will be the Training Sisters for all of the Wyoming zones and be in charge of our new area. 

That's a lot of trust. I'm the first sister missionary from Temple Square to do that, or even be sent away from Billings where the Mission Home is.... so that'll be an adventure and I'll get to know a ton of other sister missionaries! It'll be good. I'm excited for the adventure. 

It was so good to call home and talk with y'all for Mother's Day too! Love y'all too. 

Here's some more of the experiences that we had this week:

We were over in a member's house this week and I read this quote that they had on their bathroom mirror:

" Start moving in some direction, start doing something--take a course, go on a date, choose a major, start somewhere in some area about which you at least do not feel negative. If you feel negative about everything, start in a n area about which you feel the least negative. In other words, do not just sit and wait for big revelation. Do not wait for change, or a transfer, or a move, or a different situation. Start where you are, now." --- John H. Groberg

Just really loved the quote and I know that it is true. Add some "gas to your life" and go in a direction and allow the Lord to guide you as you do. 

I was looking over the member records this last week ago, and as I was looking, there were a few families that I wanted to go visit just based on inactivity, teenagers in the home etc. One of the families, I just felt particularly like we should go and see. Just a feeling, not a vision, didn't hear a voice or anything, but they kept coming to mind. Sister T told me that they had tried to visit the family 5 times and they were never home. 

But we followed the thoughts and put them in our plans to go and visit a few days in a row and it just didn't happen. Saturday, we really felt like we should see them, but we were booked. Finally, we saw them on Monday night. We go and knock on the door and we happen to catch the Dad right before he was about to drive off for work. And before we knew it, this grown man in his 50's was crying on the porch and telling us that his wife recently left him on Thursday and wanted a divorce, and that he had started drinking and that it had gotten so bad, that on Saturday he was really drunk and tried to shoot himself. But his son wouldn't let him and called the police, and they took him in to Rehab. Just that afternoon, he knew that he needed to change and to come back to church and repent. He called the Bishop that Monday afternoon to schedule a time to go talk with him, and then BAM! Here we were, just after that, standing on his porch. He said that he knows it's a sign that we're here from Heavenly Father, that He cared and that He would send more people to bear him up in this hard time.

We testified that we knew that God knew him, and he started to just weep and weep, and felt the spirit so strong.  We testified to him that this was right and was what he needed to do. He said that he's been on anti-depressants and that crying hasn't really been possible the last few days, so the fact that he was really sobbing right then was a big deal. He thanked us over and over again for coming for listening to the promptings of the Spirit. 

Once again, we felt like we should go back to check on him this week, and were about to stop by a few times, but it just didn't happen until Sunday night (Mother's Day of all days). But something was different this time. His eyes were full of hope. He said that his wife came back that morning and said that she missed them all and wants to come home and to change, and for their relationship to change. She didn't want a replacement, she wants to keep all of the good things and replace the not so great ones. He said that he agreed, and now they will do their best to work it all out again. She's not ready yet to come back to church, but that Brother sure is. He told us that he knows that this is right and what he needs to do and that this is where the blessings and peace are at. And he wants to make all things right with the Lord. 

Beautiful example for us all. 

The next experience that I wanted to share with y'all is one that I recently had. I had gotten word that one of my past investigators completely freaked out and has decided that the Church was not true and all the things that they once knew and that we had worked through were false. That sure is hard for the missionary (us) who has worked with them for so long to hear. It really was a challenge for me and was just really depressing me too. It was hard. One morning this week it was particularly weighing down on me, and as I was riding my bike up a hill, I just said a prayer out loud praying to Heavenly Father that Jesus Christ's atonement would take that burden away from me, and that I would be able to instead just be filled with compassion for the person and their bad decision, and take away the heart ache and grief that I felt, so that I could keep continuing on in the work and not be pressed down any longer.

I was amazed to feel the weight of the burden gone.  And now reflecting on it, I only am filled with remorse for the individual, and no pain or grief attached with it, or disappointment or even rejection or responsibility. I testify that I know that Jesus Christ took on the weight of all of our struggles, both the consequences of our own actions, and the actions of others. I know that He is there with grace, enabling power to both heal us, and help us, as He makes more out of our lives than we can alone. I know that His peace is not the peace that the world gives, but the peace and confidence and reassurance that only He, the Savior, can fill us with. I know that repentance is a daily process, a process of doing better, a process of changing. 

I want to include a brief snippet from an incredible BYU devotional talk I was reading this week, by David A. Bednar, entitled "In the Strength of the Lord."

 

"Nephi is an example of one who knew and understood and relied upon the enabling power of the Savior......[when] Laman and others in the party [traveling back from Jerusalem the third time] in the wilderness rebelled, Nephi exhorted his brethren to have faith in the Lord. It was at this point in their trip that Nephi's brothers bound him with cords and planned his destruction. Now please note Nephi's prayer in verse 17: "O Lord, according to my faith which is in thee, wilt thou deliver me from the hands of my brethren  yea, even give me strength that I may burst these bands with which I am bound" 

Brothers and Sisters, do you know what I likely would have prayed for if I had been tied up by my brothers? My prayer would have included a request for something bad to happen to my brothers and ended with the phrase "wilt thou deliver me from the hands of my brethren  or, in other words, "Please get me out of this mess, NOW!" It is especially interesting to me that Nephi did not pray, as I probably would have prayed, to have his circumstances changed. Rather, he prayed for the strength to change his circumstances. I may suggest that he prayed in this manner precisely because he knew and understood and had experienced the enabling power of the Atonement of the Savior.

I personally do not believe the bands with which Nephi was bound just magically fell from his hands and wrists. Rather, I suspect that he was blessed with both persistence and personal strength beyond his natural capacity, that he then "in the strength of the Lord" (Mosiah 9:17) worked and twisted and tugged on the cords and ultimately and literally  was enabled to break the bands. 

Brothers and Sisters, the implication of this episode for each of us is quite straightforward. As you and I come to understand and employ the enabling power of the Atonement in our personal lives, we will pray and seek for strength to change our circumstances, rather than praying for our circumstances to be changed. We will become agents who "act" rather than objects that are "acted upon." "

 I know that we cannot simply "grit" through life with our own courage, continuous efforts, every ounce of energy all by ourselves overcoming each obstacle we face. We will not do it happily, we will not be successful in the long run, and we will miss out the enabling power to become better than we ever could have been, if we turn to the Lord and ask for help. This has been a difficult thing for me to do, but I know that as I have done it, I am happier, I feel empowered and strengthened, and feel optimistic, and hopeful despite the difficulty. 

I know that our trials and challenges are great enough to break us, or build us. The only difference between building us up or breaking us down, is if we turn to the Lord for His help, specifically recognizing our weaknesses, specifically asking for our needs, and specifically expressing gratitude in return for the help we receive. It is not the burdens though that change, instead, it is us through the Lord's help that handle the burden. 

The last thing I'd like to share, is an insight from a member from dinner last night. We were talking about the Holy Ghost, and how it guides and directs us in our lives. The mother was sharing about an experiment she had done to know whether the thoughts she received were from the Holy Spirit, or just her own. She asked Heavenly Father if during the day that He would specifically tell her in her mind, after a thought from the Holy Ghost was given, that "this is the Holy Ghost".  She told us that as she went about throughout the day, that she realized that 95% her thoughts were actually the reminder, or insight gained, or perceptions or encouragement from the Holy Ghost, and only 5% were her own thoughts. 

Moral of the story: if it's good, it's of God. The more and more good we become and change to desire and do what the Savior would do, the more and more our thoughts are His thoughts, and His ways are our ways. 

I haven't done the experiment myself, but I sure am grateful we followed through and went to go visit the brother that we did earlier in the week.

Welp. Love y'all! I send ya more pictures once I get to Wyoming!

Love Always,

Sister Fisher

From: Jessica Fisher [mailto:jessica.fisher@myldsmail.net]
Monday, May 06, 2013
Transfer 8, week 1: Home Home on the Range! Howdy from MONTANA!

Home, Home on the range!!! Where the deer, and the antelope play… where seldom is heard, a discouraging word, and missionaries love where they serve…..  (Okay that didn’t rhyme but too bad)  Well, howdy y’all! I’m up here in Montana until July 24^th. (And yes, my new pday is Mondays).

Wow. It is so beautiful here. My companion is so great and got to the area just a month or so ago- her name is Sister Thompson and she’s from CA/UT. She’s 23 and she’s been out about 5 months. 

I’m already in love with the weather (although it’s still kinda chilly still)…. And (get ready for this Mom) I learned HOW TO RIDE A BIKE this week!!!! AHHHHHH!!!!   So it was like death the first two days (nicknamed my bike "Pickle Juice" because riding it felt like drinking pickle juice), but now I really love it. (And my tailbone does too…. Haha!!) I’m figuring out what skirts will NOT work and what does, and to get up hills I just start singing at the top of my lungs "Onward Christian Soldiers", or "True to the Faith", or "I’ll Go Where You Want Me to Go Dear Lord", and miraculously it works! (Or I just walk it up the super steep ones and my precious patient companion just waits for me at the top and smiles.)

We live with a lovely lady member in a beautiful house, the members feed us every day, great mission president, the elders are hysterical comic relief, there are dogs everywhere (and we’ve become friends) and there are so many wonderful people to teach, reactivate, testify too, and love.

I do miss Temple Square in regards to seeing the wonderful missionary sisters everyday each day, but this is great too. It’s neat to see the work go forward in the same ways all over the world.

I haven’t been here too long, but we already set a baptismal date with C (part member family) who just started progressing!!! (May 25^th) We’ve been praying to find new investigators to teach and BAM! On Friday we met this other 20 year old named J who was trying to lug up the huge hills here his groceries. So we asked where he lived and we helped him carry his groceries home (thinking that he meant the close few streets away ____ drive, instead of the 30 minute walk away _____drive…haha... oh well). It gave us a lot of time to talk with him. He then went back the next day to teach about the Restoration and we invited him to go to church the next day, and to our shock (we didn’t think he was that interested)----- he came!

 I do want to share with you one experience that I’ve had that was particularly meaningful. All the families we eat with we always prepare and pray about what message we should give them and this particular message was pure inspiration. (Because we usually haven’t even met them yet so we have to rely solely on the thoughts and impressions we receive about what to share)

So we come in, and the home is a bit chaotic, and then Dad comes in we meet everyone and we all settle down for dinner. The kids are picking at each other and Dad is also being sarcastic back to the kids and mom is just frustrated you can tell and we were wondering if the Spirit was ever going to be there, and if we should share the message we have prepared at all, and if it is even the right one to share!  But both Sister T and I felt like we should. So we did.

We asked them to write down on a piece of paper what they wanted to become at the end of their lives. Who they really wanted to be, and what they wanted to be remembered for.  We then asked them to write down what advice they would give themselves right now (if they were at the end of their lives looking back), that would help them get there.  We then had them all share them with us.   When Dad shared his, before he even started, this stiff, stubborn man started to cry as he read “To be a good father, and a good husband.   Because my family means everything to me. And what I would tell myself right now, is to just keep trying even though I still mess up.”    At that moment all the family members had tears in their eyes. Some of those kids probably hadn’t been told enough that Dad loves them, and that they meant everything to him. I just saw in their face, that these answers to the questions God had given us to share, were exactly what those kids needed to hear. It was neat to be a part of.

That is my challenge to you all this week. Have each family member answer these two questions and share them at Family Home Evening.

1.       Who do I want to be at the end of my life?

2.       What advice would I give myself right now, to be that in the end?

I promise as we have a bit more of an eternal perspective that Heavenly Father will give us the revelation we need right now, to become who He wants us to be.

I love you all. I am particularly grateful to my angel mother who is an absolutely miraculous woman of valiance, sacrifice, courage, faith, love, devotion and hard work. I owe everything that I am to her and my Dad. I can’t even put into words the love and gratitude I have for her and her concern for me, steadfastness, unconditional love and encouragement. Love you Mama.

I love all of y’all too,

Sister Fisher 

(To Jessica's friends:  This is her mom...Sorry, I was behind in posting her blogs and this one was from last month, out of order. :) )

From: Jessica Fisher [mailto:jessica.fisher@myldsmail.net]
Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Transfer 7, Week 5: Spoke in church, still playing the violin, short on time left

 

 Hello Family and Friends!

 

This week has been crazy. Eeeek!!! :)
 

But good of course. We planned on teaching 14 lessons this week in the Teaching Center plus all our square time and Beehive house responsibilities. We committed 4 of our friends to be baptized!!!! And they said yes! We're so excited for them to have the gift of the Holy Ghost and have their guilt and shame washed away.
 

So.... remember our Musical fireside in March? So apparently it was really good... and a few members of the seventy were there and loved it so much they asked the Missionary Department to ask us to do it again........ this time with about a 9 days notice :) hahaah.
 

But it's gonna be really cool because we're doing the same thing, the same program, but instead, all of the Salt Lake City missionaries are invited and their investigators. Wow. It'll be a really powerful night just because of everyone in the audience. So we're excited for that. I have to fill in all the violin parts though that Sister Zommerovska played in March, because she's outbound now... and she improvised all the parts, so I had to write a new one, but it's been really interesting because it's actually come along really pretty well especially for how stretched we've been.
 

This last Sunday it was cool too because we were invited to speak at a FAMILY WARD!!!! Yay!!! It was SO NICE to be with families, and children, and in a "real" ward situation. It was really neat. Because there's not a lot of time, I'm just going to share as my thought, my short talk:

 

Follow the prophet, don't go astray.

Follow the prophet, he knows the way.

Because our mission contains all sister missionaries, and two senior couples, we all have Sunday church meetings very early in the morning together .  Last Sunday started out just the same as all other Sundays, until the meeting started. For some reason, we heard blasted above the speaker’s voice, an audio recording of a Mormon tabernacle choir rehearsal. At first it was pretty funny, but gradually it become a distraction. We could hardly hear the words of the Sacrament prayers because Mack Wilberg was talking so loud on the speakers, and then the organ would start and all 360 voices of the choir would come in. Just as we were about to dismiss to finish the meeting somewhere else, all the sudden it stopped, and we were left to peace and quiet again, and it was again easy to focus on what the speakers were saying and the purpose of the meeting.

 

As I looked at my topic today, I realized that this experience is exactly like the world we live in. There are so many distractions, so much noise, and so many voices trying to claim our attention. But who to listen to? What will really bring joy? What will lead us home? And what will bless our families and lives? What really brings the love we want?

 

We know that we have a living Prophet today.

The Book of Mormon speaks of a group of people in Omni who brought no prophets, and no words of scripture with them and describes them as “they had had many wars and serious contentions, and had fallen by the sword from time to time; and their language had become corrupted; and they had brought no records with them; and they denied the being of their Creator; and Mosiah, nor the people of Mosiah, could understand them.” (Omni 1:17)

 

We have many investigators who are seeking for this truth today. One of our investigators, a man named Tony from New York, was interested in becoming a pastor because every church he attended (I quote) “misquote the Bible and teach things contrary to the word of God.” And he wanted to go and help people, and himself try and find truth. As we’ve shared with him about Prophets, much of his questions are answered, and concerns resolved.

 

In President Monson’s most recent talk what did he speak on? Obedience. I quote from him: “There is no need for you or for me, in this enlightened age when the fullness of the gospel has been restored, to sail uncharted seas or to travel unmarked roads in search of truth. A loving Heavenly Father has plotted our course and provided an unfailing guide—even obedience. A knowledge of truth and the answers to our greatest questions come to us as we are obedient to the commandments of God.”

 

We don’t have to figure it out for ourselves, or learn with trial and error. We don’t have the touch the hot stove and be burned so that we learn to not touch again. We can just listen to our Heavenly Father’s Prophets and avoid those dangers and avoid their painful consequences. Sure there is repentance for when we do fall down and scrap ourselves, but isn’t it so much easier and simpler when we just listen and obey?

 

Said President Gordon B. Hinckley, “The happiness …the peace…the progress… and the prosperity of the Latter-day Saints, and the eternal salvation and exaltation of this people lie in walking in obedience to the counsels of … God.” ……. I testify to you that I know that happiness can only be found as we follow the path that God has charted for us. The minute we begin to wander away from that path, and disregard the commandments, is when we will not find happiness, success or peace that we all want.

 

As we commit our investigators to obey God’s commandments, and as they act in faith and do it, they are happier than they were before. One of our investigators had a difficult time not wanting to give up drinking coffee.  But as he did, and after the first day of a headache, the second day on, he had more energy, could focus better, and slept better than he did before.

 

When I first went to college I was in the music school and there was just no way I thought that I could achieve the grades I wanted, or keep up with my class unless I did homework and practiced on Sunday. I finished my callings and checked the boxes, and quickly came right back home to continue studying and practicing. The result of this was I began to burn out of my passion for music, began to get the beginning symptoms of tendonitis, and was constantly tired and frustrated.

 

Was I keeping the Sabbath day holy? No I was not. Was I on the path Heavenly Father laid down for me? No. I was not. Instead of trusting in God’s promises and in the blessings, I trusted in my own arm, my own talent and work ethic. I wasn’t happy, but I couldn’t see how it could be done another way. Until… I got called to be in the Relief Society Presidency. No longer could I check boxes. I knew I needed to accept, but I couldn’t fit it in. Something had to give. So I trusted in the promise that we find in Mosiah 2:41  ...“I would desire that ye should consider on the blessed and ^ahappy state of those that keep the commandments of God. For behold, they are ^bblessed in all things, both temporal and spiritual; and if they hold out ^cfaithful to the end they are received into ^dheaven, that thereby they may dwell with God in a state of never-ending happiness. O remember, remember that these things are true; for the Lord God hath spoken it.”

 

And I remembered the statement found in D&C 82:10 “I, the Lord, am ^abound when ye do what I say; but when ye do not what I say, ye have no ^bpromise.”

 

So I trusted. I did not do any homework or practicing on Sunday, and I trusted those promises I found in the scriptures and I relied on the Lord.  And just like Nephi I knew that “the Lord giveth no ^bcommandments unto the children of men, save he shall ^cprepare a way for them that they may accomplish the thing which he commandeth them.” (1 Nephi 3:7)

 

I was blessed spiritually by an increase in faith as I saw miracles and watched the Lord’s hands literally be on my right hand and on my left.  There is one of the miracles that I would like to share with you today. I was in the last semester of my music theory core, and I was in the most complex music theory class I was required to take. It was very difficult… and I wasn’t very good at it. I still remember the final exam for that class. The final exam had 13 questions on it and it was a large portion of our grade. And of course… it was timed. I read through the exam and saw that the last question was a concept- that I had failed on a test because I just could not understand it. I had studied everything else and skipped over this particular technique because I didn’t think it’d be put on the exam. But there it was. Question 13 in its horror. I spent the first 90 minutes on the first 12 questions and then just started at question 13 with no idea what to do.

 

 SO I said a prayer. I reviewed with Heavenly Father that I had put my trust and faith in Him throughout the year and that I was grateful for all the blessings that He had given me for my obedience and diligence in a demanding calling. And then I prayed that He would help me with this concept.

 

I said amen and I picked up my pencil. Ideas started flooding through my mind, and I started to write things down and play with those ideas until I realized that they were instructing me how to accurately fill out the square. Much like God showing Nephi how to build a boat, Heavenly Father was instructing me how to answer question 13, since He was the one who had inspired the original composer with the idea. I did some checks and found that it worked.  A week later I picked up my test and I saw a not terrifically high score on the top, but I passed, and it actually raised my grade. I flipped through the test, and I saw two or three red circles throughout, but nothing on question 13. I had filled it out perfectly. God had taught me how to complete the difficult steps in a complex concept.

 

Obedience brings blessings. I testify that I know that these things are true. I played the best that I ever had any year, and found more joy and peace despite a busy, busy year. And somehow, I had time for it all and still had the energy for it. My faith increased significantly and I can stand in front of you and say that with God, nothing is impossible. Little did I know at the time that this experience would increase my faith, and my testimony of obedience would prepare me to accept the call to be a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints!  I have a testimony that obedience is the only intelligent way to live. It is the only way that we can become all that God sees us to be.  Obedience is the only way to happiness.

 

How can you be more obedient today and follow the Prophet to find the path God has already laid in front of you? Those thoughts that come into your mind right now are the changes you need to make today. Don’t wait to obey.  Start now to live in such a way that God can bless you more.  

 

Follow the Prophet, don’t go astray. Follow the Prophet, he knows the way. I leave these things with you in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.

 

I know that these things are true my friends. They are! Happiness is a simple choice away. Just CTR-it! Choose the right. That's where happiness lies.  

 

I feel like I should say this again too: "The time you spend worrying about yourself, you'll be miserable. The time you spend thinking about others, you'll be happy." This is totally true too.

 

Love,  Sister Fisher