Swallowed up in the joy of Christ!

6/7/14 mi familia!!! So this week was good. Still have lots of work to do but we are working on it! it has been a rainy week  but it usually starts to rain at night when we are in our house so that is nice :) Although, it would be fun to get completely drenched one time without standing under the gutter :) We had zone conference this week and there was one thing that our president said that has really made an impact on me. he said he had a message especially for us missionaries, that we are his invistigators and when we listen to this message it is only for us missionaries and to not think in our investigators when we listen but to think in applying it ourselves. First he talked about the gifts we recieve from the atonement, the first is the gift of immortality, the resurection, or the ability to overcome physical death, which is a free gift, everyone who has ever lived, who lives now, and will live will recieve this gift.The second gift is that of Eternal life, Becoming clean and being able to return to the presence of our Heavenly Father, or the ability to overcome spiritual death, but this gift comes with the price of living the gospel the Gospel of Jesus Christ! The only way we can gain the second gift is by overcoming the natural man (mosiah 2:19) and becoming a saint. We went on to talk about how we do this by serving others and really by obtaining the attribute of Charity in our lives. he went on to talk about how many of the missionaries have mentioned how they have had feelings of incapability, of how they can,t really improve and things like that... And then we read about a missionary account in the book of mormon in Alma 31 and how they had afflictions and trials and sufferings but in the last verse it says that all of these things were swallowed up in the JOY OF CHRIST. it was amazing to realize this, that everything that is hard in life, all those things that seem to impede us from improving or making things better can be swalled up in the joy of christ!!! Wow!!!  it really doesn,t matter what happens in this life if we know in whom we have our faith, if we know why jesus Christ died for us, Because of Him we can conquer all things, ALL THINGS, and recieve our place with Him at the side of our Father in Heaven! "oh sweet the joy this sentence gives, i know that my Redeemer lives!!!" .... oh how sweet!! And so now that  i have learned it, it is time to do it... still working on that part i think, but it is only forward and up from here!! i love you all so much!!! hope you have a fantastic week! hermana Taylor                                                                           a picture of me a bunny with a dress and sofia!!