Breaking Out Of Quarantine

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Hey everyone! I just wanted to share about a couple things that have happened this past week! We're out of quarantine about 4 days early because we haven't had symptoms so that's nice. (The mission Doctor approved it. Don't worry🤪)

David Danon came to the virtual Sacred Grove tour that we set up with the site missionaries in New York! It was awesome! It was so interesting to see all the different hiding places that Joseph Smith had to resort to in order to hide the plates. While we were in the literal Sacred Grove part of the tour, there was a feeling of quiet and peace. It was nice and it felt like we had entered a different reality of some kind. 

Called Sister Pace for a sec while she was at the grocery store and she was just gonna have us do an appointment, but then she got distracted talking and we talked for over an hour about the gospel it was so nice. Even though she didn't accept the baptismal invitation that the previous Elders had invited her on, she talked about how it seemed crazy how they had invited her for the anniversary of the death of her mother, who she had wanted to do temple work for. She's said before that she wants to wait until she moves in about a year before she gets baptized but you can tell that she's slowly changing her mind. We're just trying to be patient and supportive. 

On Wednesday I had a lot of time reading the bible and so I felt moved to write a verse. Have fun reading it if you're into that.
  • "Seek after good things and my words and it shall be given you, but seek not after evil things of the world or it shall be given unto you also. The son of man even Jesus Christ suffer even that he should come unto you that you should have eternal life, but suffer not the evil spirit to come unto thee that you should have eternal death. Entertain not the bad spirit that has come unto you, but rob it of it's abode and say unto him, the son of man has His abode here; I suffer not your presence"

I hope you have a great week! The Christ Child video made me cry when I watched it (as usual).
I'd invite you all to watch it, then ask God in humble prayer if Christ did come into the world. God will help you to understand if it is true, and if you already believe it is true, God will confirm you in what truth you have. 


Me with cookie given to us by Sister Caesar (bless her)

Site missionary showing one of the many places that Joseph Smith hid the gold plates when people were trying to steal them again

Sacred Grove

We made pizza! (again!)

Our second Christmas tree!


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