February 26, 2019

Email to family:

I taught the word of wisdom in a bar...

Check that off my mission bucket list.... 

Hellooooooo! 

I cannot tell you how many times thid week ive slipped on ice. I havent fallen yet! But i slip basically anytime i try to walk somewhere. Everything is just covered in ice haha. It's crazy. 

I've gone to seminary twice this week! Shared spiritual thoughts about missionary work and invited the kids to participate in certain ways. Great kids. It was hard enough for me to go to seminary when it was early and cold in el Paso but the cold here is so much worse! Icy, snowing and everything is frozen. Often these two kids from the Siler family are the only kids that show up. That's dedication. And some of the kids travel 30 minutes to get to seminary and 30 back every morning. How inspiring. 

This week I parked our car in the garage and yep forgot the garage code.  Good thing our landlord is so nice! 

We had lunch with Velma in Oshkosh and did a lesson about the plan of salvation. She's so sweet I just love her. She's already doing so much service in the church! What a great human. 

We also did some contacting in Oshkosh and we met this guy named jimmy. His wife and her dog were with him, they were in their car smoking. We talked to them about the book of mormon and he was super interested and excited! But we can tell if he's just super religious or super creepy cuz at first he wanted to have a lesson with us at a dump and then he asked for pictures of us and also he says things like "I can feel the Lord in you sister!" So I dont know. Maybe he works at a dump, maybe he's just an old guy who likes pictures. Or maybe he's a creep. We have a lesson with him on Wednesday at a cafe and we are bringing out ward mission leader brother anderson. Cuz I would not feel safe without him there haha. We shall see if he's actually interested or if he's just a weirdo. Maybe both 

We spent time with the peters and boy do I love sister peters. She is so tender. She told me that she was watching me in church last Sunday and that she started crying because she was so proud of me and to her it was a mother daughter kind of moment. How cute! She's just wonderful and I can't wait for you to meet her mom I think you will be kindred spirits haha. 

This week I was illegal or in other words, I was proselytizing in walmart! Most of the time we just go to Wal-Mart to talk to 20 people if we are short on how many we've talked to and usually it's just like "hey how are you" "I like your ____" or occasionally we will offer free service or give them our number. But this week I started talking to this lady and her husband and she was just golden! I gave her a book of mormon, got her number and we are trying to find a time to meet! (She lives in kimball, not sidney) so that was awesome! Hermana Escobar told me that she was looking around cuz she thought I was going to get arrested or told to leave or something hahaha God words in mysterious ways. Even at Wal-Mart. 

In district council hermana Escobar and I got to give a training on charity. Good stuff. Something I learned this week about the phrase charity never faileth and it endured forever. Why is charity greater that faith or hope? I have some thoughts on this I'll share when we call (: 

Also I'm grateful for your quotes and references to miracles mom cuz that's something I studied this week! How God is still a God of miracles (: 

Also, can we just talk about mormon 9:21 for a second??? What a promise!! As I was pondering it though, I think that the phrase "in the name of christ" doesn't just mean we have to say Christ's name as we pray. I think it means that whatever we are asking for has to be something that he would want, or in other words that it is according to his will. Or something that he would ask for or something that is for the purpose of bringing souls to him. Do you get what I mean? In the name of christ means much more than just saying his name, it means doing it for Him! For the sake of His name. So that was a cool thing I noticed 

We tried really hard to get the holcombes to come to church this week. We had dinner with them, a lesson on the importance of the sacrament, and planned to have breakfast Sunday morning with them to help them stay motivated! Well, an hour before we were supposed to go have breakfast she canceled on us cuz she said she wasn't feeling good. Whether it was true or not (probably was true) i was like dang it satan!!! So close. It sure is hard for people to come to church when they haven't come for a long time. 

Okay I just want to brag about my companion for a little bit. She's amazing. She works so hard and is fearless and loves the people. She prays with sincerity and is so determined to learn english. This week was hard on her because she feels embarrassed and frustrated when people don't understand her because of her accent. It's kind of heartbreaking for me actually. Cuz I understand her super well. Every once and awhile I ask her to repeat something but I always get it. It's just sad to watch her practice asking certain questions and saying certain phrases over and over, working on the grammar, how to pronounce it and everything until she gets it and then we get outside and she tries using those phrases or questions and everyone is like "what?" Or they turn to me to ask what she's saying like if she can't repeat it or anything. It's so sad to watch. These people have no idea how hard she works and how much she wants to communicate with them! Aw. But she keeps trying and I love that about her. She just keeps going, keeps testifying, keeps speaking up. Her faith is incredible. And she always has amazing insights about the scriptures and the gospel! I love it. She also spoke in church this week (which she practiced for all week) and it went good. So proud of her. 

This week we really felt your prayers. The Marquez aren't doing so good but we got to meet with Danielle twice (and I'll explain all the miracles along with that) she came to church on her own! 

Plus. Austin is now on date for baptism and we met with him twice too. (MARCH 23) 

I sure hope I don't get transferred before these two get baptized! 

Anyways. They did so good this week and I'll explain all the cool miracles about their progress during our call so the kids can hear about the effect of those prayers! 

We also met a lady named pearla who wants us to come teach her and her son's this week so that is flippin cool. 

dinner with the frankens! I love those guys. They are so funny and some of the most missionary minded members I've ever met. They are the ones who met Danielle at the gas station and brought her to church. They are amazing. This week we began a home mission plan with them and I'm excited to see what miracles come from it! 

So my back is doing better but now my shoulders and neck hurt all the time... the back roller doesn't seem to help with that too much. Any ideas?? 

Also please pray for some elders in my district, their apartment caught fire and burned down yesterday.... that's basically all I know. 

On Saturday we find out about trasnfers. I really really hope that I stay. I think it would be better for me, better for my companions progress, better for the people we are teaching if I got to stay in Sidney for 3 more weeks before I go back to nauvoo. So I'm really crossing my fingers for that! 

Anyways yes my email is different, to be more in line with not using lds and mormon - they changed it to missionary. 

Emails sent to my lds email are automatically forwarded to my missionary email so it doesn't matter all too much. But the one I'm using now is my missionary.org email so you can just email that directly. (: sorry I forgot to tell you guys haha 

As for the phone calls id love to spend some time one on one with the kids! And also hear some of you guitar skills dad (; 

Ps i know I asked last week but can I have a list of birthdays and holidays and anniversary (and grandparents birthdays included cuz i can call them for those) cuz I don't want to miss anything important now that I can call on special occasions! 

Plus also. You both are just so cute. Reading your emails i can hear your voices in my head and it's just awesome to know about your lives! I love you guys so much!!! 

Love,

Sister Bush 

February 19, 2019

Hello!! I'm still not exactly sure how this whole new communication thing will work haha but I am SO HYPED about it!!! When we found out, we were all literally screaming and dancing down the halls and jumping up and down. I was so excited haha. I'll talk to you more about the guidelines and thoughts I have about the video calls that I'll share with you guys when I call. Cuz I know that this change could either be a stumbling block for some missionaries or a springboard to missionary work. It just depends on how missionaries and families use it - just like when missionaries first got Facebook or when we went to 2 hours of church haha. So I have some thoughts, I've been praying about how to use it as a missionary tool and how to be effective. I'm super excited to see what this brings though!! And I'm more than happy that I get to talk to you guys more haha so so so so so excited. 

Also this is super embarrassing but I have a hard time remembering and I just want to be sure, can you send me a list of people's birthdays and your anniversary and other special occasions for which I should call or text? That way I can be sure I don't miss anything haha. 

Maybe you should include a list of all those weird holidays so i can call all the time haha just kidding. But please send a list of all the important things! Thanks in advance!! 

On Wednesday, we made brigaderios and delivered them to some families in the ward to thank them for what they have helped us with and also to share Romans 8:35-39 for Valentine's day. So it was crazy. Then we drove to kimball and spent time in that area with the shields and getting Kimball referrals. So that was good. Then we drove to Cheyenne to have a quick song practice and a sleep over with sister jeffords! Don't know if you remember her, but she's a Nauvoo sister too. Me, sis Johnson and sis Jeffords were the 3 who came to this mission. So it was super cool to see her and stuff! 

Thursday was zone conference! It started our super tender because president McMurray explained that the reason sis McMurray wasn't there was because their little grandson Owen had passed away. Similar to david, he was born and only lived a couple days I think. President McMurray then bore powerful testimony of Christ's atonement and the plan of salvation. What a great guy. 

The zone conference was focused on the gospel of christ, especially repentance. He made it super memorable because president McMurray dressed up as anti Nephi lehi and had us burry our weapons of rebellion! It was cool. I learned a lot. Not only that but I had the opportunity to bear testimony through song. Sister Ehlers (from my district) and I sang come follow me + i believe in christ. Someone has a video I think so I'll try to get that and send it to you. But it was super cool. I was worried because we only practiced a couple times but it turned out good (: I sang the decant for the last chorus of I believe in Christ so it was awesome. I also got picked to Role play with president McMurray about the book of mormon in front of everyone so that was nerve wracking! Plus bear my testimony because that might have been my last zone conference in this mission....

Anyways the rest of the day I spent with sister walker and sister tuunifu, we taught part of institute together and so it was awesome. They are super funny. We had quite an experience in the car though!!! I'm just glad we didn't get into a wreck haha it was crazy. But God protected us for sure. If you want I can tell you more about that when I call haha 

Friday we were still on exchanges. That's when we found out about the announcement from the first presidency. Wow. Crazy. Hermana Escobar: this was the best day on my mission. 

Haha so cute we were all so excited!!! 

I spent the rest of the day contacting with sis walker and tuunifu - we met a lot of people, set up return appointments and also I had to file on old lady's nails and take off nail polish from her nasty toenails. It was part of our service. Super gross. I wanted to burn off my hands it was so gross. 

Before we drove home we stopped at chic fil a! Hermana Escobar had never been there before - she loved it of course haha. The employee gave us like a bag full of chic fil a sauce so it was the best day of my life haha cuz now we have a bunch to use in our cooking and stuff!! Yaaay! 

Also after we drove back to Sidney I had even more bad luck with cars. I got pulled over. I'll tell you that story on the video chat haha cuz it's hilarious. Anywayssss 

Saturday was mostly just weekly planning and contacting. We had a lesson with a new person so that was good. Can't remember much else from that day haha 

Sunday!!!! Such a great day. What did I tell you about this week being a week of miracles! 

Austin and Danielle both came to church. AND we got return appointments with both of them. It was the best day of my life basically haha. 

We also had a lesson with bradley about the plan of salvation and dinner with the mcmanis family. Love them. 

Then we studied come follow me(: and then we did more contacting haha. 

On Monday we went to... surprise surprise adopt a dog! Haha some of those dogs are not my favorite. But some of them I love a lot haha. Just depends. Then we struggled to meet with Danielle cuz she had so much going on - but we prayed and waited and got to meet with her! Which was amazing because we invited her to be baptized and she said YES!!! March 9th. Hopefully I don't get transferred haha. 

Then we had dinner with grandma, she is so cute. I love her and her chocolates and her service and all her goodness (: 

And then today is district pday so we've been having fun hanging out! 

Anyways that's my week! Can't wait to talk to you guys at 330!!!! 

Love 

Sister Bush 

February 12, 2019

Email to family:

Thanks mom for all those miracles you see around you! I didn't know about a lot of those things so it made me happy to hear all the good happening over there 

For my body aches and pains I think it probably is my mattress. Cuz it changes when I get transferred or sleep in a new bed.... So that's probably it. Right now I'm currently sleeping on top of two mattresses haha which I guess helps cuz my aches and pains aren't so bad. 

Maybe the cold too. 

Regardless I might try the medicine haha 

Sister Dahl, I'll look out for her. I might miss her tho.... If she's going to the mtc this week she will likely be there for 3 weeks, well I have about 6 weeks left here so I suppose it could happen. I guess it depends on if I stay outcast in Sidney or not haha 

About the microwave and my cleaning skills: 

Since like month one of the mission in Nauvoo I had a particular companion who was messy and I quickly learned that deep down inside I am a neat freak. Guess it runs in my blood or something but I realized just how much it bothers me when people leave dishes out (not just in the kitchen but in the living room or bedrooms) or clothes everywhere (Not just unfolded on the bed - I'm talking about covering the floor and all the rooms and tables)  or don't clean up hair in the bathroom (which has always been gross to me no matter what the extent) or ect ect ect. Not only is it icky to see but in the back of my mind when I'm studying or just in the house it's harder for me to be calm. I get irritated more easily when I'm the only person doing the dishes or laundry or the only one that cares what the bathroom looks like haha. So I do care! Clothes and laundry are still being worked on... have to admit I'm not perfect there but I am learning that I like it a lot better when things are CLEAN. very clean. Hahahaha so thanks for raising me right (; 

I love Sidney nebraska. I love the ward I love the people I love my companion and I love being a missionary. But this week is what I have come to call a "trial of our faith" week. This week we were expecting to have 4 people accept a baptismal date, 5 come to church and to start teaching 2 new people. Instead we got a bunch of zeros. For all of those goals. Not only that, but we didn't even meet with people! No joke, all week everyone continued to cancel, not be home, reschedule, not reply to our messages, hang up phones and quickly close doors. I was feeling pretty..... upset. I didn't understand because in this companionship I feel that we are more obedient than the last companionship I was in! I feel like we try harder and are more exactly obedient compared to before - and yet the results are less. Now I know that success does not equal baptisms. I know that very clearly. But I also know that obedience brings blessings and miracles. So this week I was like: so where are they? 

But this week as I've continually pondered, prayed, read scriptures and wrote things out I've re-discovered things about the Savior. I knew i could turn to Him for answers. As I pondered his life, his perfectly exact obedience and love and sacrifice, I realized that yet so many rejected him. And some continue to do so. If the Son of God was perfect but experienced the worst of the worst, why should i, who still have many many imperfections expect only the best of the best? Why is missionary work hard? Elder Holland says "because salvation is not a cheap experience." 

Christ paid the price. And we also, must give our all. Our whole souls. And yes people have agency. And yes God tests our faith. But ultimately, the reason life is hard and we deal with hard things is so that "the works of God may be made manifest in [us]." 

I'm grateful for this week, even though it was hard. Even though it caused me to hurt a little and dig deeper and spend more time on my knees. Maybe especially because of those reasons. Without this hard week, I wouldn't have dug as deep or prayed as hard or searched the scriptures as diligently or pondered as much or exercised more faith. Which is why I am grateful for the good weeks but also the "bad" ones. 

But in reality, when I step off that plane and end my mission, and someone asks me to describe my mission in one word I won't use good, bad, hard or easy. I will use the word sacred. Because it is a combination of everything. And it is in our extremities - our extreme happy moments, our extreme sorrowful moments, extreme sufferings and rejoicings, extreme stretchings and extreme learning - it is in our extremities that we come to know God. (Just ask Levi savage.) In all these moments and days And weeks I have been coming to know the Savior as I serve And bring people to Him. And that, no matter what other words can be used to describe it, will always be sacred to me. 

 So that is what I've been pondering this week. It seems that you have been doing the same. Thanks for sharing your thoughts, experiences and feelings! It helped me with mine (: 

Anyways, as I said this week was a trial of our faith. Which is hard but it's good because that means that this week I have faith that we will see miracles! Hermana Escobar and I are calling this week miracle week and we are so excited to see what lies ahead (: 

Though we had many many many lessons cancel and stuff (like multiple every day) here are some of the things we did get to do this week: (trying to focus on the positive things! ) 

We built snowmen! Two little ones by our apartment complex. Just for fun haha 

I hemmed a dress for a sister in our ward though I have never done it before! She asked for our help and then didn't really give us any instructions and so that was fun haha. We did our best though, hopefully it works out.... 

We Served at Table of grace again, a food pantry. I like it cuz we get to help people in the community and serve along side other fellow believers in christ. They may not have the full truth but they really do serve out of the goodness of their hearts so I love it. Plus we get to help a lot of people! It's cool. 

Because it was more of a hard week i gave extra effort into my scripture studies (funny how that usually happens) and had some really cool things that i learned as well as some aweosme companion studies! 

Book of mormon insight: 

I was reading in the scriptures how Christ says to search the scriptures and the prophets and to hearken unto him. So I started reading a bunch of quotes about scripture reading and this one was my favorite: 

"I am grateful for emphasis on reading the scriptures. I hope that for you this will become something far more enjoyable than a duty; that, rather, it will become a love affair with the word of God. I promise you that as you read, your minds will be enlightened and your spirits will be lifted. At first it may seem tedious, but that will change into a wondrous experience with thoughts and words of things divine." - Hinckley 

Haha a love affair with the word of god. It's my new favorite phrase!! This week I definitely spent a lot of time deep inside the pages of the book of mormon and I do love it so much. 

pmg insight:

 it says "your success as a missionary is measured primarily by your commitment to find, teach, baptize and confirm people and to help them become faithful members of the church who enjoy the presence of the holy ghost." 

I think you can even shorten that. 

"Your success as a missionary is measured primarily by your commitment to Christ, and bringing souls to Him." 

Which was a cool thing to remind myself of this week. We can all be 100% successful missionaries, whether in a visitors center or out knocking doors. Whether you see 0 baptisms or thousands. Whether you have people accept you or not. It's all about your commitment to the Savior. 

Come follow me insight: 

when Christ turned the water into wine it was known as the beginning of miracles. Essentially #1. I think that in a spiritual sense we are the water that He turns into wine. And that is the most important miracle, the number one miracle we should focus on in our lives. Not only that, but him changing us from water to wine- in these days, the last days, it's like the end of the celebration. Satan will be like the man who was surprised that the best wine was saved till the end. When we let Christ change us, change our hearts, actions, views and natures - the adversary (and sometimes even ourselves) will be surprised at who we became. But Christ wont. Because He knows how good we can be. And that's why we have to let Him change us (: 

We had a pretty good weekly planning- this upcoming week we will be doing a lot of traveling (to cities farther away in our area, to zone conference - Which i am stoked about by the way - and stuff like that.) So pray we don't get lost with my navigation skills haha 

We talked to quite a lot of people this week. (Haha cuz we had a lot of finding time cuz all the lessons canceled) there is an initiative in the mission about talking to 20 nonmembers  we have never talked to before every day. It's quite a challenge in this little itty bitty town in Nebraska but we do our best! And this week we did pretty good! Needless to say we have made some unnecessary trips to Wal-Mart just to talk to more people but hey if it works it works right? (I have so many embarrassing Wal-Mart awkward conversation starter stories hahahaha not just me but my companion too. We've had quite a few good ones. Hers was talking to an old lady about tuna THAT WAS FUNNY and mine was asking advice about vaccums only to find we were in the carpet cleaner section, and the vacuum isle was the one to the right. Good times good times.) Any advice on how we can talk to more people besides Wal-Mart? I don't want to keep going there but there aren't really any other public places here that we can go to.... (the locals prefer to gather at bars lol) 

Update on the mexicans: another one is in love with me. This time he is older and has kids so that's even more awkward. I'm sending screenshots of our conversation in the Google photos lol it's bad. We had a call with him to explain the book of mormon more and he kept asking for me, eventually hermana Escobar just lied for me and said that I don't know any Spanish and can't speak Spanish and won't understand spanish either if he keeps being crazy and stops asking gospel questions we are going to block him. Oscar hasn't been contacting us this week so that's that with him I guess haha. 

On Sunday Velma got her temple recommend! That was so good. We went through the recommend interview questions so she wouldnt feel nervous. She is so cute haha she was like yes I believe president Nelson is a prophet and all those things and then when we asked if she had any questions she was like yeah, what does a prophet do? Haha so cute. Im So proud of her. 

We did service at adopt a dog which is always fun. But those dogs are insane haha and it's always freezing outside when we get their poo. Scooping up frozen poo. Not the business. 

And! A miracle yesterday! (Proof that this upcoming week will be miracle week!) We found 1 new person to teach yesterday! It was pretty neat she is very prepared 

Anyways that's about my week haha. I love you guys so much and I'm so grateful for both of you! You mean everything to me  thanks for being such great examples, parents and friends 

Love, 

Sister Bush 

Ps a flock of geese migrated to our "backyard" and I am not thrilled about it because of how much noise they make when we are trying to sleep 

Side note thought I had this week: 

If/when you plan to come to Nauvoo please please please do not try to surprise me. Last summer I noticed that missionaries struggled more when their families surprised them and didn't tell when they were coming. It made it harder to mentally and emotionally prepare for and also made it harder when the families left and they had to say goodbye/re-focus on the work in nauvoo. So please don't surprise me and recommend to any extended family not to surprise me either! Surprises are fun but just please let me know if/when you will be coming or others for that matter. 

February 6, 2019

I Put Chic-Fil-A Sauce in my Alfredo Noodles.....

This week has been awesome! Awesome and busy. Hermana Escobar and I have served at a food bank, 

had an employee of a restaurant try to flirt with us, gave away many copies of the book of mormon, 

cleaned a church building by ourselves, drove 2 hours to teach a family about the plan of salvation 

and spent plenty of time laughing in between. Life is good here in Sidney!! 

About the title of my email...... Let's just say I've done a lot or substituting in my recipes this week haha. 

(Ps it was actually really good) this week I also made banana bread! 

And also tasted some new recipes from members and my companion. 

And so, consequently, I've done a lot of thinking about recipes. 

There are recipes for a lot of things! And not just food..... 

There are recipes for good grades, recipes for strong friendships, recipes for staying warm on a windy day ect. 

Do you see what I mean? And in recipes there are usually subsitutes. (Like my chic-fil-a sauce haha.)

So here's my point: 

In the recipe for a joyous life, there is no substitute for living the gospel of Jesus Christ. 

Nothing else will work in place of it. Some of the other ingredients can be altered a little, but not that one. 

Why? Because it is the most important thing to add and mix in. Your life just won't be the same without it. 

How can I always be joyful even when life is hard? The answer to that question is by turning to Jesus Christ. 

Following in His footsteps, trusting in His teachings and loving Him the way He loves us. 

I know that He lives and that He loves you! 

I know that no matter what other ingredients you are putting into your recipe for a joyful life - 

that if you make sure to add His gospel and His love, it will turn out wonderful. 

Always remember Him! For He certainly always remembers you. 

In the name of Jesus Christ, amen. 

Have a great week everyone! 

Sis Bush 

From email to family:

Select stories from this week: 

So we were trying to find Spanish people for hermana Escobar to teach and we went to 3 margaritas, 

a family Mexican restaurant and this one employee seemed interested! 

So we went back for dinner to try to develop a friendship and try to give him a book of mormon. 

Welllll hermana Escobar went to the bathroom and while she was gone he (his name is oscar) 

came up to the table and as like "you are really pretty by the way" 

And I was like AHHHH HERMANA ESCOBAR COME BACK 

But I just said oh thank you and then he walked off. 

Well we invited him to church but he didn't come cuz he has to work 

but he won't stop texting us and telling me he has a crush on me and asking if it's okay to date and 

I'm like no it's hilarious because we keep seeing him. Maybe he  will come to church sometime! 

Who knows. Lol 

I was trying to make mom's banana bread recipe on tuesday and thought I had sugar 

but I actually had powdered sugar! 

So we decided to use the opportunity to get to know our neighbors in a friendly way by asking for sugar. 

I thought it was genius but it didn't go the way we expected! 

We talked to some neighbors and they didn't have sugar. 

Then we knocked on this one door and the guy was super rude and didn't even answer the door but yelled 

that He didn't have sugar and to go away basically. Anyways I was like well he's friendly. 

20 minutes later he knocked on our door and was there to apologize. 

He had a package of sugar and gave us the whole thing. 

That guy taught me a lesson in humility and apologizing that day. 

He was very humble and said he wanted to say sorry. 

He didn't know where we lived so I'm assuming he just knocked until he found us. 

It was a tender moment with that package of sugar. Idk, it's hard to explain but I learned something from him. 

We gave him a loaf of banana bread later (: 

We served at Table of grace a food pantry and my favorite part was after I trained hermana Escobar 

how to do it she was not afraid to take people through the bank on her own. 

We are in the same room but assigned to help different people.

 I loved watching her serve and do her best and love the people. It was awesome to see. 

During our lesson with the Marquez we taught them the plan of salvation. 

Beforehand I wrote out my testimony and hermana Escobar translated it for me so I could practice it. 

Well I bore my testimony about david. And in the moment I felt the spirit So strong. It was crazy. 

I was bearing my testimony in Spanish and the spirit was speaking to me but I felt it in spanish. 

I am very far from being fluent or even being able to speak Spanish without practicing first. 

But it was a tender mercy to be able to do that and feel that. 

This upcoming week is going to be crazy. For some reason everyone we asked if we could meet this week said yes! 

So our schedule is jam packed with lessons and appointments and service and almost no time for any finding

or studying haha. So when I found that out I was reading my scriptures and praying on Sunday like 

how can I get through this week without stressing out?? My answer came in 3 Nephi 20. 

First the savior teaches about always praying in our hearts, t

hen he reminded me of the sacrament I just took and how if I remember him, I will be filled with the spirit. 

And then he talked about the gathering of Israel and how he will be in our midst. 

It was a comforting chapter! I'm so grateful for the power of the Book of mormon. 

I'm so grateful that God answers prayers.