......JUST ASK!

Hello everyone!!!
Greetings from every-cloud-has-a-silver-lining-or-is-on-fire-sky Colorado!!!! another lovely week has come and gone, and I can't believe how fast time goes!!! Sister Brown left for Brazil this morning and that was way way way sad.  :(  I love her so much!  My new companion is sister Meteer, and she is a sweetheart ! I can't wait to get to know her better throughout the next six weeks.... but I can wait til she finds out that I’m completely crazy... poor thing.. haha.  She didn't know what hit her.  haha. maybe I'll let her know gradually.

Man, it has been a great week!  Last night was the Missionary Musical Fireside that I have been planning for 6 weeks, and it was flawless! I couldn't believe it.  I thought it was a dream that it went so well, and that non-members came, and that there was desserts and mingling for 30 minutes afterwards, and that the Spirit was there so strong, and that the musical numbers were all beautiful.... and that we had to open up the overflow because a lot of people actually came... I couldn't believe it... but it was such a blessing. Heavenly Father is so good to me.  And I sang a number, and that was probably the strongest I've ever sang in front of anyone,,,, I very literally felt like the Lord magnified whatever small talent I had, and let me be an instrument in His hands.  I had a cellist and pianist accompanying me that were so amazing and it was one of my favorite musical moments I've ever had yet!  Tender mercy.

I volunteer for "Just Serve" at a Plains Conservation Center... so pretty much a place that loves the Plains, and the history of it... and prairie dogs... they love them there. haha it is hilarious... I had to sign a paper to volunteer there that if guests come to visit and talk to me that I have to say things that are in line with the center's views... so I will hold my tongue on my famer's daughter opinion of prairie dogs and the waste of farm land ... what? did I say that out loud?  haha but I do like the center, and in all actuality I admire what they do, and how passionate about it they are. Go team.

So my spiritual thought for the week is the importance of asking.  In the Bible, we read countless of stories of people who were healed by the Savior, but single one of them had to ask, and to ask in faith.  Sometimes the Savior would make them ask for what they needed multiple times (but He knew the WHOLE time what they were in need of... He just wants us to have faith)  Because He says, "Go, Thy FAITH hath made thee whole."  The miracle doesn't make us whole.  Our Faith in Him makes us whole.  But we have to ASK.  Heavenly Father's plan for us is centered on the gift of agency, and so He won't heal us against our will, and won't make us clean against our will.  We have to turn to Him in Faith, and ASK.  It's amazing.  I have seen that in my life before I got on my mission, and I see it out here.  Heavenly Father WANTS TO BLESS US!  He glories in seeing us living righteously and happily... but He can't pour out as much blessings as He would if we don't ask.  So my invitation to you all this week, is to ASK. I don't know what you need to ask for, but do it in faith.

This week, I have been reading in the Book of Mormon war chapters and I love it!  I love putting on certain lenses and making them apply to me, because let's be real, every day is a war against Satan and sin.  Anyways, I read about the Stripling Warriors yesterday and LOVED it.  haha years ago in the margins of 53:20-21 I had written "the perfect man" haha.  anyways... If I want that I need to be that... so I loved in Alma 57:21 how it talks about exact obedience.  That is something I strive for as a missionary, because I need the miracles that come from it... but I make mistakes... I hate it, but I do.... So notice the verse doesn't say "they were perfectly obedient all the time"... no, it says they observed to obey every command with exactness....  So Heavenly Father knew the desires of their hearts was to be exactly obedient, but they weren't perfectly obedient all the time.... good thing....

Heavenly Father loves us, and is SO patient with us, but wants to give us the blessings that can only come when we are obedient.  I love the Atonement, and I LOVE  the Savior's forgiveness.  I love being a missionary.  I love the Gospel.  I love the Lord.  I love the Book of Mormon.  I love you all.

Onward Christian Soldiers!!!!

sister Meteer

sister brown

 From me to you, Kinzie Lou 

ps the pictures... the fire mountains... so weird. the sun was in another spot in the sky, yet the mountains were on fire or something. cray cray Colorado.picture of the tipis at the plains conservation center. picture with sister brown and the sadr family.
picture with new companion sister meteer