Week 21 - October 3, 2022

First off, General Conference was incredible!   I hope y'all got to listen to our living mouthpiece of God on the Earth today and receive revelation and answers from him and his apostles. I know for me, I received so many answers and knew that the words were from God.  Definitely the highlight of my week was listening to conference!!

 

The Reisener Family let us watch conference with them❤️

Personally, I felt like the whole theme was knowing and understanding our Savior, who he is, how he loves, his character, his attributes, and how to come to know him.

I love the invitation that Elder Stevenson gave us about knowing and understanding our testimony.  His invitation included:

-do I understand what a testimony is?

-do I bear my testimony?

-what obstacles stop me from bearing my testimony?

-how do I keep my testimony?

This is so important to know and understand our testimony and continue to share it with others so they can come to know what we know.  "Your testimony isn't what you say, it's what you are."  When he said this, I asked myself, "Do I stand as a witness of God and Jesus Christ?  Do I follow their examples? How can I do better?"  Then Elder Stevenson answered with, "Make your testimony your highest priority."  It's that simple, to follow those 4 steps and include:

 

-gain a testimony of Jesus Christ and his restored gospel. 

For me, the mission has gained and strengthened my testimony in millions of ways.  But mostly, my testimony of my Savior and who he is to me.  He is my best friend and I know that he is always there for me and all of you.  I invite you all to strengthen your testimony just like Elder Stevenson did and can promise that if and when you do, you will feel our Heavenly Father's and his Son's presence more than you could imagine. 

I don't have a ton to say about this week, but I can say, I seriously don't know what it is but lately everyone has been signing us up to do service for hoarders.  I thought the last one was bad, no that was a breeze.  I am not kidding.  I walked into the house, covering my face with my shirt to not show my facial expressions.  Then she goes, "SISTER COPELAND, WANT TO GO PICK UP THE GARBAGE IN THE BATHROOM?"  Pure terror in my eyes.  I went in and found the garbage was diapers from an old lady USED but just lying there!!  MAN, I WILL NEVER RECOVER FROM THAT!! But hey, it was worth it to help her clean her house a little. Thought y'all should know that when they say you come home a different person off the mission, I might have to agree.  I would have never cleaned/picked up diapers before🤣

Hahaha besides that, I love who I am becoming and it's all because of Jesus Christ.  This week I feel his love so strong. Also, I forgot to say we got transfer news..... ME AND SISTER STAUFFER ARE BOTH STAYING AND WE WILL BE GETTING A TRAINEE!!  Holy, we are so so excited and cannot even wait to meet her on Wednesday!!  

ALSO, my cute Aunt Amy sent us a package this week with the CUTEST CTR sweatshirts and General Conference journal, I love her!! (Amy BTW those journals went to GOOD use!!) 

We love you, Amy.  Thank you for the cutest sweatshirts. 

We love seeing the mountains--reminds us a little of Utah 🥳 

Sperryville 

Jesus is the Truth!

Anyway, I'll have more updates next week but until then keep deepening your faith and conversion to our Savior!  He is SIMPLY THE ONLY ANSWER!!!  And remember to make your testimony your highest priority!!!

love you all:)

#CTR 

-SISTER HANNAH COPELAND