#LIGHTtheWORLD

Hey everyone!

This week was kind of just like all of the other weeks so far.

On Tuesday we had a zone blitz at FIU. It was pretty fun. We got a lot of potential investigators. I went on a short exchange with Sister Louissaint which was cool cause I got to learn some stuff from her. 

 

Wednesday we had Zone Conference!! That is always a spiritual high! President Garns introduced us to the new #LIGHTtheWORLD video. We got new pass along cards for the event. I am so excited to get to be part of the work at this time to initiate it. If you haven't seen the video yet, repent and go to mormon.org right now and watch it right now and print off the calendar. It starts on December 1st this week. (It is still weird to me that it is December already) Start thinking of ways that you can #LIGHTtheWORLD with the people around you.

 

Thursday was Thanksgiving!! It was weird to say the least. We had a brunch with some of the members from our District Leaders ward which was pretty good. It was mostly Brazilian food. But then that night we had dinner with the Bishop from the Hialeah ward. It was super weird cause it was all in Spanish. But, we had turkey and potatoes and even green bean casserole with pumpkin pie to top it all off. It was filling and very good. 

 

Friday Sister Schiers and I did some family history work. I looked up some stories from my third great grandmother that I walked for in trek a few years ago. It really is touching to learn about our ancestors. It is also really cool to see people come to the church for that very reason. I can't wait to be able to live with my family again after this life.

 

Saturday was just a normal day of studies and knocking. We had dinner with our awesome members Jeff and Freddy. Please feed the missionaries! They will love you forever. We also got to meet with Mary that night. She wanted to just sit and read so that's what we did. We read 2 Nephi 6 and were able to talk about it. It was nice. We shared the Light the World video with her.

 

Sunday was fantastic. I hit my 4 month mark! Woah. It feels like I was in the MTC like 3 weeks ago. Time is flying by and I don't like it. We had a member speak about his story of experiencing the earthquake in Haiti and is journey to America. It was really touching. His motto has always been, "If God put me to it, He surely knows how to work me through it." I might just start living up to that. Very good words of wisdom to live by. We met with Mary again after church and taught her the commandments and law of chastity. We had a member there with us whose family is all really catholic and she bore her testimony about how it was hard to leave family traditions but the blessings she's received from the church. It was really good for Mary to hear and she told us we could finally meet her family! That is a miracle because we have been trying to do that since day 1 and she always said no. Hopefully I can tell you how it goes next week.

 

That's about all for this week. I love you all!! Keep being awesome! Go out and #LIGHTtheWORLD! Oh, and go to the temple!! It helps a lot. 

 

All my love,

Sister Beckstrand

Florida Sunshine: This house is basically what most houses here look like. I like this one most though because there is a T-rex out front and a stork on top. Thought you guys would like to see the houses I see every day.

The other two pics are us right before Zone Conference this week

 
My Cute District

Us and Mary in front of the Christmas tree at our chapel

We had thanksgiving with the STL's (sister louissaint and brown) and Zl's (Elder vazquez and lester) at their bishop's house. It was a little rough because they only speak Spanish and I only speak English. But we had an actually dinner so all is well!