Spirituality. Sometimes you got to change.‏

Hello everybody!
Monday's come so fast. It's crazy. Time is flying! This week was a
good week! So many little miracles this week! It was awesome! Not only
miracles with the work but just miracles in every aspect of missionary
life! It has been the best. This week we had a great district meeting
where we talked about Christlike attributes and how we can develop
those. Let's just say that I was completely right about me and the
whole charity thing. That was my lowest score on the attribute test
that we took. However it was actually a very inspiring meeting and
made me want to change and be better! I've been trying my hardest to
pray for charity and act on it and I will say that I believe I'm
getting better! It is so cool what having a desire and praying can do.
I've recognized that in everything that we do we have to have the
greatest desire to do it or else we won't be able to achieve what we
need to do. I think that desire is so important because often times it
leads to action and action is where the growth and strength comes
from. It's pretty legit. We've been working hard in our area and we
have been able to teach so much more than we were. It might not be to
the most interested or solid people but nonetheless we are teaching
and showing our ward that we are willing and ready to work! I'm so
grateful that the Lord has given me the opportunity to keep teaching
and keep planting seeds.
We had zone conference this week! It was AMAZING! Let's just say that
the spirit was so strong and that their is power in enduring through
our trials and praying our little hearts out and reading from the Book
of Mormon. President Ahlander and Sister Ahlander are going home in
June. It is so sad. They only have one more round of zone conference
left. I have really grown to love and appreciate them and their
support. President Ahlanders training was on prayer and how we need to
be praying with our heart and not just our mouth. It was great and
just goes to show that prayer should never be a routine or else we
aren't using it the way that God wants us to use prayer. Sister
Ahlander gave a training about conversion and how we need to be
converted to Jesus Christ so that when life gets rough we have
something to lean back on and find strength in. I loved that so much.
I know that we are given hard things because Heavenly Father wants us
to grow and wants us to be able to recognize that his plan is far
greater than any of ours. It is so true. The assistants to President
Ahlander gave a really good training on the Book of Mormon. They asked
a lot of through provoking questions that really made me reflect on
how much the Book of Mormon has changed my life. I've never been very
good at understanding the Book of Mormon but I have recognized that on
my mission when the work gets hard or when I'm going through some
trial that the Book of Mormon coupled with prayer is the first thing
that I turn to for strength and comfort. I'm really grateful that is
something that I have been able to learn on my mission. I hope it will
always stay that way. I feel so much comfort from reading the words of
prophets. It truly is a beautiful thing.
Saturday I was on exchanges with Sister Reed who is my sister training
leader now. I love her. She has so much wisdom and strength. The lord
has really blessed me with her. We had a really good and productive
day. I loved it. It is through her that I know that I need to put
myself out of my way and realize that if anybody is ever stopping me
from being able to grow than it is myself. Yesterday was a great
Sunday! Everything just worked out perfectly and we saw and met people
just as they were walking out their door which are huge tender mercies
because we were finally able to get into contact with a lot of those
that we had been trying a while ago. We had a lesson with a man named
Warren. Funny story. He was telling us how he came to Vegas and how he
found God again. He said that he was living in a hotel where a bunch
of strippers lived and one day they knocked on his door and asked him
if he wanted to go to church with them. He thought that was a little
weird since they were strippers but then he said that those women were
some of the most godly women he has ever met and that it is because of
those strippers that he was able to find God again. It was great.
Welcome to Vegas where the strippers bring people to God and the work
schedules are just about as crazy as seeing a pig fly. I love it here.
I'm so grateful!

Sister Lauren Camilleri