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What are you trusting God with right now? 🙏✨ Today I had the honor of speaking with Sister Rebecca Fredrick, who’s serving as a mission leader in the Bogotá Colombia South Mission. She shared how moved she has felt seeing the trust these young missionaries have in their leaders. And we talked about what it really means to trust in the Lord — The shield of faith, Linking our faith together and how God takes our vulnerability and reshapes it into gratitude and power Faith isn’t something we just have — It’s something we choose to grow into. And in that growth, we come to know Jesus Christ. We feel His power.

Today I had the privilege of talking with @michelledcraig3 about the joyful transformation that is Holiness. 
Maybe holiness isn't about proving we're good enough to God... Maybe it's about surrendering our imperfect offerings — and allowing Him to make them part of Him. It doesn't happen automatically. But if we're willing, it does happen. That quiet, radiant transformation — being magnified through His light and moved by His love

Can waiting actually increase our joy? 🤔✨Today I had the joy of sitting down with the incredible Leah Morris to unpack the beauty and purpose in Waiting on the Lord. 🙌. This is more than just delayed gratification or sitting idly by and waiting for God to do His thing.
It’s active pursuit —Patiently seeking Him, Speaking of Him, Staying rooted in His perfect light and goodness.This is joy and patience all in one 💛.

What does it feel like to be rescued by Jesus? Today Gale Teuscher and I got together to talk about the power of Christ’s Atonement — to rescue us, to lift us, to heal us and bless us.
Even in life’s storms, He fills our hearts with His peace and His joy. But it doesn’t stop there — His power fills us with capacity to:  heal, bless, lift, and to join Him in the work of The Great Rescuer!

Creativity is a way to partner with God, to testify of Christ, to build up God’s kingdom, to find joy in life, to find resilience through trials and to Glorify God! When we are being creative, we partner with God and can fight compulsion consumption and comparison!!! Some gifts we talked about: Storytelling Record keeping Writing Cooking to keep our bodies healthy and take better care of them. Following inspiration and revelation and acting about it. Creativity tied to faith, survival and covenant making and keeping. Doctrine and Covenants 89:18-19 Proverbs 3:7-8 amazing promises in the scriptures also Daniel 1:17 And this great quote by our beloved Prophet “ I urge you with all the hope of my heart to pray to understand your spiritual gifts to cultivate use and expand them even more than you ever have. You will change the world as you do so.” Oct 2018 ❤️❤️❤️

Today I got to sit down with mother and violinist Lauren Smith to talk about the many impossible dreams which our God fulfills as we seek Him. Whether its the mountains in our lives, a rocky period, or just the unknown His love moves and transforms what was once stone into windows for His light to pour through

Today my dear friend Cassie Shepherd and I had the most wonderful time discussing Hobbits, Doors and the great adventure we discover living in God . It seems that all great stories reflect the one greatest story of them all and wherever our path made lead as long as go through the one true door we will find our way both "there and back again"

God has such a generous, giving, parent-heart—and He loves to shower us with His light and love. 💛 Today I got to sit down with my Boston friend Portia Thompson and talk about these incredible gifts—and how we can prepare our hearts to receive them. 🎁 So much of this journey is simply letting God: be more, do more & love more than we ever imagined He would…or thought we deserved.
 
The gifts don’t always have to look like what we planned. But we trust the Master Planner. He knows exactly what we need—how, when, and why. The more we: spend time with Him, learn of Him, see His light & come to know His love …the more we realize just how HAPPY He is to give us what He has— and how ready He is to help us grow, draw closer, and help others do the same

What a remarkable reunion & discussion with one of my former missionaries in Bulgaria, Elder Travis Wolsey, as we talked about making Jesus and His eternal light the center of our lives . How amazing that as God prepares the world for Jesus to return He begins by preparing us in our hearts and souls to know and feel Him . So that even as things get chaotic around us He who set the stars in the sky can bring order, light and His perfect peace to our souls

What a fun-filled hour we had today with Barbara Morgan Gardner talking about the Savior's and stories in  preparation for the His Second coming.
It turns out that Sharing is Preparing and in these Last Days God is most interested in how we connect with Himand use what He gives us to help and bless others.
Our gifts of kindness, hospitality, listening,  and Sharing His Love and His Light not only brighten the worldbut allow God to transform us in the process. And that may be the best preparation of all.