Malmstrom, Sara

Hey! Happy Monday! It's been an awesome week. We've had great experiences with our friends, and I've had some fantastic experiences reading from the Book of Mormon recently! Sister Welch and I are having a lot of fun together, and it's so good to be able to look at where we first started with each other and see the progress we've made. We have definitely become friends, and it's made the whole difference in our work and area! Good things are happening. We had Zone Conference this week! It was fantastic, as always. We spent the entire time focused on the Book of Mormon and how to implement it into our work more. We did about a thousand roleplays, and it was awesome. I got to see a lot of missionaries from past areas for the first time in a long time, and it was a lot of fun! We had an INCREDIBLE lesson with Amanda and Donnie on Tuesday this week! We planned a church tour with the hope that it would help Donnie feel less overwhelmed about coming to church. We star...

Howdy! I don't have much to say this week, regarding our day-to-day activites. It was a regular-ish week. A few odd things happened, but we moved forward as missionaries do. Instead of sharing storytimes as I am prone to do, I just wanted to focus on a couple spiritual lessons I have been taught recently. I read through the talk 'Perfection Pending' by Russell M. Nelson this week, and I loved it! He went through the Greek translations of the word 'Perfect' found within the scriptures, and taught how the translation more often than not means 'complete', or 'reaching a distant end'. I loved that! The commandment from the Savior found in Matthew 5:48 and 3 Nephi 12:48 to "Be perfect" has always seemed overwhelming and impossible. But after reading this talk and learning more about the true meaning behind the words, my understanding has increased greatly! Jesus Christ isn't commanding us to be perfect in our flawed and mortal state--that tr...