“Porkkanakuja” is the name of a street that we saw while out tracting a day or two ago. “Porkkana” means “carrot” and “kuja” means “alley,” or “lane” so there’s a street here named “Carrot Alley” or “Carrot Lane” which I just thought was adorable and worth sharing. Now onto things that matter haha.

There’s a new Easter campaign for this year! “Pääsiäinen on Kristus.” Or “Easter is Christ.” There’s a video for it that’s about a minute long, and it starts by saying “Easter is…” and then it’ll show a word that’s a Christlike attribute and show somebody doing something today that shows that and then Christ doing something that shows that thing and then at the end it shows that “Easter is Christ.” It emphasizes that our focus for Easter should be becoming more like the Savior and honoring who he is and what he has done for us. By showing side by side his example then and somebody today it demonstrates that Easter is a time to remember who we are striving to become like and who even made that possible in the first place. As fun as candy and the Easter bunny (or the Easter Witches here in Finland) are they shouldn’t be our only focus this year. I couldn’t find the video in English just now, but I know they also have the #BecauseofHim and that video so I’d like to invite you to share that video on social media if you haven’t already to help remind others what this season is really about.

We have been trying to get in contact with a less active member and tried to bring her cookies a week ago but she was always busy and at one point stopped responding to our texts, so we decided we would stop by but weren’t sure when. We had come up with about four different variations of the plan, putting us at her house at about 4 different times of the day. And we can’t remember why we decided on the one that we did. But when we stopped by she buzzed us in without us saying anything and when we got to her door she said she just knew it was the sisters and our timing was perfect because she had just gotten home from picking up her sick little boy. We knew that it was an inspired plan! So cool!

Aaaand for the picture this week. We were in a rush to get to zone conference because we had interviews beforehand, so I managed to leave both of my name-tags at home. So Sisar Anderson, my MTC companion, let me borrow one of hers! Hope you all have a great week! Hei hei!

(Just a note from me, Faith’s G’ma Morgan: I’m keeping Faith’s blog going  and I am starting to see advertisements mixed in with pictures of Faith. I don’t know how to delete them and I’m hoping I’m the only one that is seeing the ads but if not, please just ignore them.)

Last Monday p-day was pretty hectic but we managed to go pants shopping!! It was our last day to do so, and it was a miracle – three pairs of slacks in a row fit perfect and were within all the guidelines Sisar Aura had given us. (Shopping for slacks that fit right but aren’t too tight is definitely a struggle.) Heavenly Father sure does bless his missionaries! And I’ve found that walking around in pants is much easier than a skirt and I’m so grateful for all the changes that the church has been making to help make missionary work easier.

Speaking of those changes, I have more information on us becoming a technology mission! We get to buy our smartphones in the first week of May and they should be up and running by the end of the month! It’s going to be so helpful for using the buses, having scriptures and conference talks all at our fingertips, being able to search the scriptures and talks by phrases or topic, and so many other little things that will just make us more efficient missionaries. We’re so excited that it’s finally here and that we’re getting it all so soon!

This week we had Return and Report, which is were all the missionaries who came into the country 5 weeks before, meet with President and Sisar Aura and some other missionaries for a few days and talk about how things are going and ask questions and receive some more training. It was so helpful and so wonderful to see my companions from the MTC! We also had the opportunity to attend a session at the Finland Helsinki temple and it was such a wonderful experience. The temple just brings so much peace and joy and is such a special place to be. It helps you to keep life in perspective and better sort out what’s important and what isn’t and you leave feeling like life makes a little more sense, or at least feeling more peaceful in spite of the times when it doesn’t. And ultimately the temple is where we want to help people get to because we know that it can help them have that feeling and that peace in their lives, and so attending can be a good reminder of that.

Because we were in Helsinki so long it’s been a shorter week here in Tampere, and the lessons that we had all fell through, so it’s been more of an out tracting and meeting people couple of days. But since General Conference is this weekend we’re trying to invite those we teach and the friends we are trying to teach to come watch it with is and it looks like we should see some of them there! We’re very excited about this special time to hear from the prophet and all be spiritually fed and strengthened. We’re currently encouraging one of our friends to come to conference with a specific question in mind and be listening and feeling for the answer, so I’d like to invite whoever is reading this to watch a session of general conference this weekend with a specific question in mind and I promise that you’ll receive an answer. It’s worked for me and I know it can work for you! Have a great week everyone! Hei hei!

Beautiful Sisar Missionaries

Last p-day was fun, we tried mustamakkara which is a blood sausage that they make in Tampere and you eat with Lingonbery jam. It had been so hyped up to be terrible that we were a little freaked out, but it tasted totally fine and I actually really liked it! We were so shocked that it didn’t taste terrible we were afraid we’d ordered the wrong thing, but it was definitely mustamakkara. Feel free to google it if you want to know more about what it is, I can’t 100% remember right now.

Last week the snow was all melted and it was starting to get warm so we thought spring was starting a month early. Nope. The weather quickly corrected itself and this morning we woke up to a fresh blanket of snow on everything and the snow has yet to cease. Normally the saying is “April showers bring May flowers” but here it seems to be “flurries” instead of showers haha. But we do like the snow so we’re totally fine with it.

Yleiskonferenssi (General Conference) this weekend was wonderful!! Because of the time difference we watch the Saturday morning session Saturday night at 7, the Saturday afternoon session Sunday afternoon at 3, and the Sunday morning session Sunday night at 7. We have yet to see the Sunday afternoon session but we’re going to watch it with some other missionaries today at the church. We’re so excited!! We ended up having three of our friends come to watch conference with us! It was more than we had been expecting so we were very pleasantly surprised. Conference definitely does bring miracles!

In conference, I noticed a lot of comments about simplifying and going back to the basics and focusing on what’s most important, and I feel like I’ve noticed that theme of “small and simple things” over the course of my mission. Life isn’t about always reinventing the wheel or groundbreaking ideas. Life is about becoming our best selves, and the best way to do that is through the gospel of Jesus Christ. We need to use the Savior’s atonement and be obedient to the commandments. We need to prioritize family and building those relationships. Small and simple things like daily prayer and scripture study and weekly attendance at church are where all of these things start. So if you’re struggling with something right now and can’t quite figure it out, I invite you to try going back to the basics and I promise that it will help you far more than you may think.

Hope y’all have a great week!!

Moi! As of last Tuesday, I’ve been in Finland for a whole month!! I forgot to mention that in the last email, so I figured it would be worth mentioning now. It’s crazy to think it’s already been a whole month but it also feels like a few years…time is a very strange thing.

Onto this week! Wednesday we received some pretty exciting news – the Finland Helsinki mission is finally becoming a technology mission!! We don’t have all the details yet, just that in our next zone conference we’ll talk about it (that’s at the end of May) and the technology should start rolling out about then. We’re so excited about how this is going to make us more efficient and help us better find and stay in contact with people. (Also for how much lighter our shoulder bags are going to be).

On Friday we taught the nuoret miehet (young men) how to make snickerdoodles!! On p-day the only grocery store that we went to was lidl and we couldn’t find cream of tartar, so we had to get experimenty and figure out a ratio of baking soda and baking powder we could replace it with. It ended up working well enough and the activity was a success! We wanted to make sure we taught them how to make something that they hadn’t heard of before and by the way they all laughed when we told them the name “snickerdoodle” they definitely had never heard of them before, but the nuoret miehet all helped and we learned some new words to explain how to bake cookies so that was a lot of fun.

This weekend we had Vaarnakonferenssi (stake conference) in Tampere and all the missionaries in our zone came for it, so we got to see a lot of friends and hear from our stake president and from Elder Wonda. Elder Wonda spoke in English and after every phrase, a translator would say the phrase in Finnish so it was very educational to learn how to say some of those things and also wonderful to hear a talk in English. Afterwards, when we were waiting for a bus back home a man in a wheelchair we’d seen once before asked us if we were students at the university, we said no we are church representatives and the conversation kind of stopped. And that would’ve been fine in normal circumstances, but I felt like I should keep talking to him. So even though a slightly awkward amount of time had passed and it was a little awkward I started the conversation up again (even though I had no idea what to really say) and kept it going and we got to know a bit about him and by the end of the conversation HE gave US his phone number – without us asking for it – and told us to call him if we ever need anything. So we have a new friend that we hope to see around more and get to know better. It was so cool to act on a prompting to talk to someone and to step more outside of my comfort zone to do so and to see that the promise that if we open our mouths the words will be given to us. Heavenly Father always follows through on his promises, we just forget sometimes.

This last week I’ve been studying out of chapter 5 of PMG where it talks about the Book of Mormon and why it’s important and how we can and should use it and I’ve come to find that I love that chapter! It’s such a powerful resource. If we can help individuals to read and ponder about it they can learn for themselves that it is true and from that gain a testimony of everything else we teach about. It answers all kinds of questions, and it’s something we continue to learn new things from every time that we read it. Sometimes I’ve felt a little weird jumping straight to the Book of Mormon because I’m worried about what people already know or think about the book and that they’ll quickly turn away because they think they know everything about “the tale of Joseph Smith and the golden bible” and they won’t listen. But now, I want to start with it and just testifying of it because that’s something I know I can say in Finnish and that I know the spirit will testify of the truth of. So one night I started our door approach by asking the individual had ever heard of the Book of Mormon. And sometimes yes, they closed the door or didn’t want to listen. But we also managed to give one away that night to a man of another religion who was intrigued by what we were saying. And others said that we could come back another time because they were busy. It was great to see how the spirit testifies of the Book of Mormon and that those who are ready to listen won’t shy away from it.

Pictures from our train ride to and from Jyväskylä for district council.

And from a walk through Tampere (featuring my trainer Sisar Watts).

I hope you are all doing well.

That’s our new saying – “what a päivä” or “what a day.” We said it on one day that was really weird, and then we realized that as missionaries weird stuff happens every day and so we end up saying it multiple times in a day. But it’s wonderful.

Last week on P-day we went to the Moomin Museum!! The Moomin books were written by a Swedish-speaking Finn about these little Moomin Trolls and the fantasy world they live in, so the museum has some of her original illustrations and 3-dimensional models made by fans. It was a lot of fun!!

Fun story – one day last week we decided we would go contacting a little more in the evening because we had forgotten a tracting book and there wasn’t enough time to go back, get the tracting books, and go back out the area. But it was super cold outside so we came in and added more layers we would be warm enough. And since I knew I’d have a coat on I didn’t worry about the mismatching so I just put on my warmest fleece leggings, my warmest skirt, and the sweater I was already wearing with a jacket and scarf and hat over it. And I looked ridiculous without the coat so my companion took a picture of me and now you can all see what it really looks like to be a missionary in Finland hahaha

Aside from that, this week had some interesting occurrences. We got a call from some elders in our area for a few hours on their way back to Pietesari and ended up hanging onto a guitar for them for an hour while they went out contacting with some of our books and cards. We had a random phone call from a lady who said she was Orthodox and needed some help and gave us a time and an address and that was pretty much all the phone call consisted of so we were very confused and we had no idea what to expect. We found her in our area book and sisters had met here about 6 months ago and helped her clean her house. So we went over and did that and while doing so my companion heard her say something about “soittaa” thinking she was thanking us for the call or something because that’s the verb “to call”. And then we hear some intense organ music start playing. And it was really good, just surprising. We thought she had turned on a CD. But nope – she was playing the organ in her front room!! “Soittaa” is also the verb “to play” as in playing a musical instrument. So she played the organ for us while we cleaned and we got to get to know her and it was a lot of fun and great to get to know her and be able to serve her.

We also got to go to a baptismal service on Friday for someone the other sisters in Tampere have been teaching, and it was so wonderful. You could see in his eyes that he was so happy and excited and ready to take the next step to become close to his Savior. It’s funny because while you’re there and you see it it seems like such a small thing – just being immersed in water while a short prayer happens – but you can feel that afterwards, something has changed. A covenant, or a promise, has been made, and something new begins. The individual gets to turn over a new leaf and receive more blessings, peace, hope, and joy than they had previously thought they could. We felt very honored to be there and blessed by the reminder of how sacred and important it truly is.

I hope you all have a wonderful week!! Hei hei!

That’s the Finnish word for Zone Conference!! We had ours on Tuesday, so President and Sisar Aura came up to Tampere and the whole zone met in our church building. It was so fun to see Sisar Anderson again and get to meet more of the missionaries out here. I had the opportunity to say the closing prayer (in Finnish) which was awesome albeit a little nerve wracking. We talked a lot about developing Christlike Attributes and the gospel of Jesus Christ and how we should expect miracles, not just think that maybe we might experience some. No! We are God’s children, and he loves us, and he is so ready to help and to make things happen for us and help us out. Maybe not always in the way that we expect him to, but I promise that if you’re keeping an eye out for miracles, and expecting to see them and for them to happen, you’ll see Heavenly Father’s hand in our life.

Sometimes the miracle is as small as the bus being a minute or two late so that we’re able to catch it and make it where we’re going on time. And other times it’s being able to understand what someone is saying to us when I don’t recognize all the words they said but I’m still able to understand and formulate a response. Miracles are EVERYWHERE we just have to be looking for them.

We had exchanges with our Sister Training Leaders in another part of Tampere on Saturday, which was so much fun! We got to go tracting and contacting and work on starting conversations with people and it was a lot of fun. It’s fun to see how different missionaries go about missionary work and start conversations in different ways and exchange ideas. It helps a lot. And our Sister Training Leaders are amazing and give wonderful advice so that was really helpful.

Right now we have a lot of interested people who we’re trying to set up appointments with, they just all tend to be busy and so it’s difficult to find a time to meet. But we’ve given out some books and we keep checking with people and hopefully we’ll have more friends to teach soon!

At the moment I can’t really remember what else big or important happened this past week, things just all start to blur together at some point. But I’ll plan better for next week so that I’ve got more to say. Have a great week!! Hei hei!

We made it!! And there’s not much time to email today, so it’s mainly going to be pictures with a little bit of an explanation.

I’m in the beautiful city of Tampere, and we are on this stretch of land in between two lakes (which are currently frozen) and it’s so beautiful!! There’s snow and ice everywhere but as long as we bundle up it’s not too bad. The sidewalks are all covered in ice and so gravel is regularly poured over the sidewalks so that we can actually walk.

My trainer is Sisar Watts, she’s been here for 8 months and she’s amazing! The picture of the two of us is at the high point between the two lakes so when you turn the other way and walk a few feet you can see the other lake!!

We travel by bus and walking, the public transportation here is amazing and it’s wonderful to not have to worry about a bike and snow tires and all that right now so I’m feeling pretty blessed!!

I bore my testimony in sacrament meeting on Sunday!! I was able to introduce myself and bear a short testimony and it was really cool!! And church is definitely the best – it’s where I can understand the most because it’s where I hear words that are actually in my vocabulary.

We taught our first lesson yesterday, and it was actually in English so that was pretty awesome!! We’ve got quite a few more this week in Finnish so I’m very excited for that!!

View from Faith’s apartment

And I think that’s it for this week! Finland is amazing!  Have a great week!! Hei hei!!

We’re counting down the days now!! We leave Monday morning for Finland!! And we are so excited to go. We started packing today so it’s finally feeling a little real!!

This week we had another apostle speak to us – Elder Ulisses Soares. It was wonderful!! One of my favorite things that he said was, “Evil doesn’t have any power against goodness.” And I love that! If we’re striving to keep good thoughts and feelings in our minds and in our hearts, there’s no room for the adversary to come in and lead us astray. We can always be stronger than the little discouraging thoughts in the back of our mind or little feelings of irritation that start to creep in. It does take work, but if you’re willing to put in the work to be good you will be protected.

Then in choir this week we sang a new medley that the pianist put together of primary songs. It starts with “When I am Baptized,” then “I Belong to the Church,” then “I Love to See the Temple,” then “I’m Trying to be Like Jesus.” It was so beautiful. And in between singing parts of the song during rehearsal, Brother Egget will talk to us about the song we’re singing and how it applies to us as missionaries and members of the church. So he told us about this acronym for us to remember what specifically we should do if we want to try to be like Jesus:

1. Think – When Christ was upset about those selling things in the temple, he didn’t act immediately in anger. He took time to braid a whip and think about what steps he needed to take next. He also drew in the sand before answering when a woman was brought to him who had committed adultery and he was asked if she should be stoned. Before he acted he always thought.
2. Observe – In the two instances explained in the last point, Christ took time to observe what was going on and how his actions would impact those around him. He also was always aware of the one who needed him, no matter the crowd of people he was in.
3. Meek & Lowly in Heart – He accepted instruction from his Father in Heaven, and meek is a word often used to describe the savior. One thing I thought was very interesting, and it’s somewhat in Elder Bednar’s talk about meekness and it’s in my notes but I can’t remember if Brother Egget said it or if I thought or this exact phrasing, is that when you’re meek you actually gain more courage. And I’ve realized it’s because your pride decreases, so you’re not afraid to go and do and try because you’re not worrying about yourself.
4. Ask – Christ would pray and ask his Father what to do. In the beginning of the scriptures, when there’s the predicament with the lack of wine at a wedding, he asks his mother what she would have him do. So for us, that means asking our Heavenly Father what we could be doing better, or even those close to us.
5. Seek the spirit – Christ had the spirit with him always. He communicated with his Father in Heaven the same way that we do, through prayer and the spirit. So if we want to become as he is, we need to have that same connection to our Heavenly Father by keeping the spirit with is.

When you put the first letter of each of these points together it spells “Tomas” which Brother Egget said is the original biblical spelling of Thomas. I just thought that was a really cool memory trick and that it would be a cool thing to share.

I love that song, and it was amazing to sing it in such a big MTC choir. That’s why the title of this post is “Kuin Keesus mä olla tahdon,” because that’s the Finnish title for the same song in their Children’s Songbook.

Other than that, the MTC is pretty much the same as it has been. We’re still Sister Training Leaders, we’re still learning Finnish, and we’re going to do another English fast tomorrow so that’s going to be great!! Hei hei!

We’re getting down to the wire now…only 10 days until we fly to Finland!! It’s weird to think that time is actually here, but also incredibly exciting!! We should get travel plans tomorrow!

That means only one more Tuesday night devotional. Speaking of which, this Tuesday Sister Joy D. Jones, the Primary General President, and her husband, came to speak to us. It was amazing. They’re both such wonderful speakers and such wonderful people, it was such a great evening. Brother Jones talked about his conversion story and his experience going on a mission after that and made a point to tell us that we know enough and that learning German for his mission helped him to learn more about the gospel and build his testimony, and I’ve definitely seen that here. Because I can only say so many things about each point of the lesson, I can better see what is essential doctrine and what isn’t. I also know how to explain things more simply, and that’s helped me to better understand the doctrine. It’s so amazing, and not something I expected to happen, but something I am incredibly grateful for. Sister Jones was the sweetest, she talked about obedience shared that she would sign off her emails to her children on their missions with “TKOGON” which stood for her favorite quote “The Kingdom of God or Nothing.” I think that’s such a wonderful goal and mindset to have, especially as a missionary.

She also talked about the song “A Child’s Prayer” which is my favorite primary song. In high school and at BYU that was the song that would be stuck in my head a lot, because it’s honestly a prayer that we all have in our hearts at times, not just children. For any not familiar with it, the first verse is a child asking Heavenly Father if he’s actually there and listening, and then the child remembers that Christ told all the children to come to him and so the child is going to do just that. And then in the second verse it’s a mother singing telling the child to pray because he’s listening, we’re his children, and he loves us. I know that that’s so true. We really are children of God, he loves us, and he always wants to hear from us. I think that second verse is so important because we forget sometimes whose children we are, and we might need somebody to remind us of that. So today, that’s what I’m doing. I want to remind you whose you are – you are a child of a perfect, loving Heavenly Father who really wants to hear from you how you are doing. So don’t forget to get on your knees later tonight, or now if you can, and let him know.

After the devotional I checked to see if they have that song in the Lasten Laulukirja (Finnish Children’s Songbook) and they do!! And it’s made mostly of words we know which is amazing because I want to memorize it so that when the song gets stuck in my head it’ll be in Finnish instead of English. I’m pretty excited for that. The song is titled “Lapsen Rukous” hence the title of this post.

We were very sad to lose one of our teachers on Saturday, so now we’re down to two teachers, hopefully they’ll get another one soon or we’re going to start having to have substitute teachers. The good thing is there’s only 8 more days of classes for us so it won’t be too big of a deal.

Hmmm I’m trying to think if anything else has happened. Oh, our elders keep singing the song “Secret Prayer” with really think southern accents and one of them singing like he’s a banjo so that’s been pretty interesting and now we always have it stuck in our heads. That’s been pretty hilarious.

One of our teachers showed us a video of a flashmob singing “Finlandia” in the Helsinki train station on Finland’s independence day and woah it was breathtaking. It gave us all the chills and made us all teary. Please please please go look it up. The tune to “Be Still My Soul” comes from “Finlandia” so you will recognize it. It’s about the dawn of day that comes when slavery is gone and freedom is found and you can feel it when they sing. They are such an amazing people, I’m so excited to have this opportunity to go live there and serve them.

I feel like I spend most of my time talking about music in these, so I’ll talk about something a little different – the language. We’ve now gone over all the cases they’re going to teach us in the MTC, which if I remember correctly is 13, so that’s pretty cool. We definitely don’t always remember which one is which or when to always use them, but Finnish is definitely starting to make more sense now when we read or hear it which is really awesome.

I hope everyone is doing well! Hei hei!

Faith is soooo cute!!! Her eyes and her smile glows with the Light of Christ!

My companion and I were discussing what we were going to say in our emails today, because we had no idea. It’s gotten to the point where weeks in the MTC are starting to blur together, so only one thing really sticks out to us over this past week, but after only a few minutes of talking we came up with some other little things from this week.

That one thing we knew we wanted to write home about was that Elder Jeffrey R. Holland came and spoke to us for our Tuesday night devotional. It was amazing. We thought it might be him because during choir Brother Egget told us a story about how the arrangement we were singing of “Nearer My God to Thee” came to be, which was so that it could be sung at a BYU devotional he was speaking at. Sure enough they announce 15 minutes before the meeting starts that he would be the one speaking. And it was so amazing. You could tell by how he talked and the things he said that he was being led by the spirit. It was definitely a talk tailored to the audience. He was so incredibly encouraging, telling us that if we are here it’s because God called us and he knows e can do it. He even said at one point that he could tell that some in the audience were struggling and that he would be our companion for the devotional and a shoulder we could lean on. It was the sweetest. He promised us that if we go forward and do and open our mouths that we will be astonishing and do it not only well, but spectacularly well. One of my favorite things he said was that all we have to do is be our best self, not somebody else, and give God the credit. As long as we are doing that, we can do amazing things. And I know that’s true not only for me, but for everybody out there. What a fantastically simple promise. I love it.

Alright, now for the other ideas Sisar Debiasi and I drummed up like 20 minutes ago. Since she’s from Italy, she eats a lot differently than we do here, so she had never tried chicken and waffles before. It’s one of my favorite things here, so I was really excited when she finally tried it this week and…drum-roll please…she really liked it! So that was a pretty fun moment. She also eats a lot healthier than we do here, so pretty much any time we have “Italian” food in the cafeteria she’ll explain why it isn’t and how they would normally make it in Italy. It always sounds soooo good, I really hope we’ll get to see each other enough in the field that she can teach me to cook all the things she’s told me about. But if not, she’s at least taught me the best, and simplest, way to make a salad. You just get a plate full of the lettuce salad mix they have, and put salt, pepper, olive oil, and red wine vinegar on it and mix it around. It’s so much better than other dressings!! I was a little skeptical at first, but pleasantly surprised once I try it and now that’s my go to if nothing else looks good.

Our elder who broke his leg was able to come to class yesterday!! It took a lot out of him, he’s only coming to one of our class blocks each day, but he’s definitely making progress! He’s staying here until the end of our MTC stay, and then going home to heal for a transfer, and then they’ll fly him out to Finland!!

The sisters in our zone are just amazing. They’re sweet, hard-working, obedient, thoughtful, and really care about this gospel and the work. We love them so much and are so grateful for them.

So this week I was reading in the Book of Mormon in Alma 48, and it talks in there about Moroni, the amazing chief captain of all the armies of the Nephites. And a well-known verse about him is verse 17 where it says if all men were, “like unto Moroni, behold, the powers of hell would have been shaken forever; yea, the devil would never have power over the hearts of the children of men.” And I’d always had it in my mind that because of this scripture somehow there’s something incredibly special about just Captain Moroni and that he’s somehow the best that an imperfect human can become. But then I read verse 18, which says, “he was a man like unto Ammon, the son of Mosiah, yea, and even the other sons of Mosiah, yeah and Alma and his sons, for they were all men of God.” It wasn’t that he was more special than the rest or had some secret ingredient they didn’t, these men are all examples of great individuals. And they all lived their lives doing different things, being chief judge, being missionaries to different people in different lands converting different sizes and groups of people. None of them are exactly the same. But what is the same about them is in that very last line, “they were all men of God.” And that’s what it really comes down to. That’s the “secret ingredient.” It’s just being a man or woman of God that stops the devil from having power over our hearts. Why? Because we start listening to God instead of the devil. And if we just start there, we can be as great as captain Moroni. I love the thought of that.

And that’s it for this week, I hope everybody’s doing well!! Feel free to send emails, I love hearing from everyone! Moi moi!

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