I'm a Lumberjack in my own forest!!

May 19th, 2014

Hello Hello!

It's Summer:) Well. narazie... It is so warm today and the sun is shining and I am making sushi for P-day:) Life is good:)

So this was a miracle week. It's interesting how we don't really do too much differently and one week ends up being more visibly successful than another... well I'll just count my blessings! So we started off the week having a miracle lesson on P-day! Yay!!! I love how I've learned so much about how much I am loved in seeing how much Heavenly Father loves others. We found this man on the street after FHE at the chapel and we brought him in for a lesson and he spoke excellent English so the Durrants (senior couple) were on it! Miracles! Speaking of Senior Couples I'm making a pitch for them! We need them SO badly here in Poland and President told me to tell Uncle Bruce he should come out( His words, not mine:) I guess that they know each other really well, he also knows Kristin... speaking of which President said she got married? I love their family!

Family History Board

This weekend we were able to be part of "night at the museum" it is where all of the museums in Warsaw are opened for free all night long! The church was registered as a family history center and so Sis. Poklinkowksa and I and the Assistants went in to the chapel and talked about family history. I met the sweetest young girl who drew a picture of me while her parents went into the center. So lovely! We also made a family history board and are going to use it more often!

I think one of the greatest miracles of my week happened while we were trakting. So... rewind.... my first week in Warsaw I met this couple from china on a tramwaj... they were adorable but didn't' speak hardly any English. So I gave them a mormon.org card and showed them how to find it on their phone. Then... fast forward... on Wednesday we went tracting and this sweet Asian man answers the door and lets us in... then I see his wife and she starts talking to him ( in Chinese) and he says... we met you on a train. It was the same family!!!!! They have a daughter who is seven and we are meeting with them this week! The Lord is SO mindful of all of His children. I love them already:) The only trial now is figuring out how to learn Chinese in two days( shouldn't be that hard;) but I really think that we need to find a way to skype with a member or something... zobaczymy.

Warsaw!  I love this city!!

This week we had a lesson flake. So we followed up with a back up plan to visit a less-active. I love her SO much and when we got to her house she had been crying pretty hard. We said a prayer and started to talk with her. Her father was in the hospital and was dying. We tried to comfort her and during our lesson she got the call that he had passed away. IT broke my heart. She is such a wonderful daughter of Heavenly Father and she kept saying that she was so grateful she wasn't alone, so I KNOW that the Lord answers our prayers and watches over us. She then went on to share a very painful childhood story, and I know that this moment was actually for me to learn something extraordinary. The atonement of the Savior Jesus Christ covers and heals and saves and comforts and builds us in every stage of life. I know this to be true. At different times in my life and in my mission especially I have felt that when people share these deep and painful stories I have felt so down and sad for them. At this moment I was able to feel for her, but have perfect clarity that if she turns to the Savior of mankind, it literally can be as though it never happened, or better yet, it can build her and make her into someone He can use and bless. This is the glory of the Atonement. It enables and ennobles us in our trial and weakness. It takes a person who has suffered and endured much pain from mistakes and other things and ennobles them to feel deeper. love stronger and serve better than they could otherwise. I remember learning this lesson slightly during the time of Braxton's death. I know that the Lord ennobled us all the reach higher heights and appreciate it more because we knew lower depths. I am eternally, eternally grateful for the sacrifice of my Savior. I am growing my faith in Him, and though it's not a perfect knowledge it is planted and rooting in fertile ground. I am forever grateful for my mission, which has softened my heart and deepened my understanding. Eternity will be lovely, no wonder the angels praise His name. They are so grateful to HIm and His sacrifice.

I know that is a very personal testimony, but it is for the sharing:)

I am ever more aware that I may not have a ton of time left in Warsaw, so I'm trying to work hard and love the culture of the big city:) I sure do love it here. The people in our branch are so wonderful and I can't wait to see the growth that is coming in Poland. The Lord is hastening the work, and He's hastening the growth of the workers:)

Now for some funny moments...

Sister Poklinkowska and I have had some funny polish moments this week.

1. I have been saying for My WHOLE MISSION that we need to plant seeds of faith in what.?.. GRAVES. Yep. I was contacting this lady and I used this same sentence and she started laughing, I was caught off guard and she told me that I was trying to say that we plant them in the ground and help them grow but instead I had been saying that we plant them in graves. Yep.  We had a good laugh! Keepin me humble:)

2. Sister Poklikowska and I were talking with this less active and telling her about how she is in control of her life. She gave a Polish idiom example in Polish and I didn't fully understand it... something like I cast my own fate... anyways. later that day sister P. was like... " I love how she said that, we are lumberjacks in our own forest..." And I had no idea what she was getting at, so she explained that that is what she thought this lady said. Hilarious!

There are always many more, but I loved this one:)

I love you all so much! Thanks for sending me a package! I can't Wait!

We read a lot of family history this week and I"m so grateful for the family I have!

Do usłyszenia!

Siostra Ali Hemming

Revelation!!!

May 12th, 2014

 

Skype with my family on Mothers Day!!

Hello my family!

It was so wonderful to see you all on Sunday:) That day we all went back from church and we sat in the office and I waited while Sis. Poklinkowska skyped and I was feeling so excited! I love being able to talk to my family... I think that it was so wonderful and I am so grateful for technology. I love technology, but not as much as you you see:) At Christmas I wrote down all that I wanted to talk about and this time I just went in and was ready to see my cute family!!! I love you all so much. Your testimonies and love meant so much to me. Right after talking with you the Assistants were waiting in the hallway and were like, Okay Sis. Hemming... time to run:) Why? because we had the coolest miracle happen! A wonderful lady in the other branch was being a missionary on the plane and met someone who she loved right off the bat. They chatted about their lives and this member and her husband shared with her the power of the Plan of Salvation. They wanted to meet with her and she lives in our area but they haven't gotten in contact yet so we went to talk with them about it and see what we can do. I already love this girl! so send some prayers her way;)

Polish Guard on May Day!

I've been focusing a lot on giving my all to the work, and I realized that I want to carry that trait with me into the future, and so I was grateful to let those two things coincide, talking to my family, and talking about helping other families. I love being a missionary!

 

We were able to find a new investigator who has a baptismal date this week! I testify that the new revelation President Edgren recieved( which is really just the old revelation to preach the gospel) is so inspired...

 

Polish cemetery...so cool!

We had a wonderful week and were able to teach a lesson with a couple of less-active members and also a family whose wife is a really active member and the husband isn't a member at all. It was a wonderful discussion about the Atonement and it's power and why it had to happen and our views on the role of the Savior. It was lovely. I felt so blessed with a lot of miracles this week. That lesson was one of them. Another was that on Thursday we had  a lot of lessons scheduled... Sis. Poklinkowska and I were super excited and then one by one the investigators flaked us. I was pretty disheartened by this and I went into the bathroom of the chapel to say a prayer. At the moment my prayer ended Sis. Poklinkowska came running in and said that our last lesson of the day came! It was a wonderful lesson and she accepted a baptismal date and came to church!!! Miracle. Then also because of that we ended up seeing a sweet less-active who I love. She is pregnant and hasn't been to church for a while because of that, and we got to see her! Then on Saturday we went to the branch party and she came, along with another woman who is SO wonderful and is a new mother and less-active. I love this work. That was such a wonderful day.

HUGE bubble blowers in the parks:)

 

Well, this was a great week. I think it's funny that you got stage fright because I kind of felt similarly... crazy:) But after the discussion I said a prayer, it's really powerful because I'm sure you did too. So we did basically have one... on different sides of the world, but I know that it doesn't matter where we are praying, it is all heard by our Heavenly Father. Next time I see you we will have a family prayer for sure:) I like being the guinea pig anyways;)

 

Some funny moments from the week.... I love Polish people. They have taught me a lot about being blunt and honest:) They are certainly that way.. i can't tell you how many comments about my skin I've heard from everyone and also comments about how if I sit on the cold ground I won't have children or that I will die an early age from not wearing nylons:) It's is soooo sweet and Hilarious. It's just because they love and want to help.

Some cute members who I LOVE!!

  

We went to the Young Women's lesson this week and talked about personal revelation. I think that one was for me especially. It was a miracle. The women opened up and were so kind and we love them sooo much! I think some of these members will be my best friends forever;) It's hard not to be friends with those you love.

 

Well, I sure love you all! I am searching and learning about relying on the Lord. I think it's these more abstract personality traits that I'm striving to accumulate and they are tricky. I know how to work hard, I know how to be obedient, but I think the Lord is teaching me how to acquire traits that require faith and trust and hard work:) Turning my heart to the Lord, and serving Him with all my capacity:) I have been learning alot about hearts lately, You should all read about it too. Broken heart. open heart. loving heart. pure of heart. turn your heart. I love all of these phrases! The scriptures and the atonement tend to teach us how to reach and become those traits that are inside. I think that is beautiful!

I am doing well and am happy:) It is so great to be a missionary!!!

Love Love lOve, Siostra Ali Hemming

Like my Mother does:)

Like My Mother Does:)‏

Hello my Lovely Family!!!

This was a great week! I am loving Warsaw and especially my companion, she is so wonderful and we get along so well. This week we had a lot of really great moments...
I went on an exchange with Sister Blake and we had a great opportunity to get to know each other better. I am so grateful for the chance I have had to be with her so often! It's crazy since we have never been in the same city until now but I think I've been near her my whole mission. She is doing so well and she and my sweet Sister Owen are such a cute companionship. We just had so much fun running around serving people and searching for Less Actives and enjoying speaking with people about the gospel. It was a great experience.

On Wednesday we had zone conference and it was SO powerful! President called us all to repentance. He started out saying that we as a mission are expected to reach new heights, because of this we need to leave behind those things that would hold us back. It could be our family, worries about home, disobedience, or anything really... so in light of that... I won't be writing home anymore...

Just kidding:)

But I have really searched for those things that would hold me back and I am focusing all I can on making charity my purpose. That everything I do may be fueled by that charity! Love for my Savior and for others. I think this will come by thoughtful prayer and seeking to better understand the atonement of the Savior for myself and all mankind! Czyż nie jesteśmy braćmi i siostrami? We also talked about something that is going to change my mission and my life. We discussed getting to the point. To znacze że we are going to be speaking with people about how much Heavenly Father Loves Them. Because of this love, He wants you to change your life, so that you can reach your potential and have everlasting happiness. This joy that comes from purity and cleanliness doesn't need to be yours after this life, but now. This joy comes from repentance and faith in the Savior. We invite all men everywhere to show Heavenly Father that this change is real by entering into the waters of baptism and making a covenant with Him. This covenant will cleanse us of our sins and we are reborn in the light of His love! Sharing this message has REALLY made an impact on my life, and I now feel strongly that even though as a person we all have weaknesses, I feel the most in line with the will of God than ever before in my life. I Love my mission. I love my Savior.

This week Poland had a few holidays and so we were able to spend some time being more Polish on the old town!!! It was so fun and I was reminded ( like I am every day) of the joy and beauty of the country I am serving in! I LOVE Poland!

I also got to spend a whole day outside in the rain. It was hillarious! Sister Poklinkowska and I were trying to find a less active who lives pretty far away, and it was POURING. Needless to say we didn't find her, and we ended up freezing... my shoes are eradicated. Nevertheless... She came to church the next day!!! It was a miracle. The whole day when I felt a little grumpy I just thought of my optimistic mom:) I am so grateful that this time of the year I can celebrate my mother!! I sure do love her!

During Zone Conference we went out contacting about repentance and baptism. Preaching repentance. wow, what a novel idea. But so much purpose and light has come into my life as I just get to the point:) Anyways... Sister Poklinkowska found a super awesome lady who od razu accepted a baptismal date! her name is Elżbieta and she is the sweetest! So we've been teaching her, we also found the sweetest girl named Kasia on a park bench and are set up for this week! It was a good week!

A few other random thoughts... we met some people from France.. I forgot EVERYTHING! It's okay though:) Also... Dad... do you know someone named Cory Anderson who served in Paraguay? And did you know that President Edgren's son served in Paraguay? We had dinner at the mission home last night! It was sooo delicious. I miss home-made food. Sister Edgren said on a P-day she'll teach me how to cook something... I have learned how to cook a few things, so don't fret! It was such a wonderful meeting and I got to be with my Sister Petherbridge who is also a sister training leader. It was cool to be together a year later!

Well I sure do love you all a lot!I do get to SKYPE though!!! So that will be so wonderful. I will be able to skype at 8:00 your time on Sunday... So I need to know our skype address, if you could send it asap we got the okay to check it during the week.

A great week. I can say I've learned so much and am excited for the miracles that lay ahead!

z miłoscią
Siostra Hemming

Charity:)

April 28th, 2014

Moja piekna Polska!

Hello my lovelies!!!

So I had a good week with Sister Pokli.( her name is super long) She has family from Poznań which is a city in the mission, so she is Polish far back in her line!

This week we have been really focusing on building a  strong foundation for our investigators. Our branch has really struggled at different times with different things, Poland is almost like the Kirtland period in the church, but the people's testimonies are so strong, it is really inspiring! We have been meeting and talking with them about charity. I think that all starts with us as missionaries, but it has really made a huge impact here in the branch. It is so interesting how quickly revelation travels and how grateful I am for the fact that I can learn so much each week and then apply it to the work. At the beginning of the transfer I read Alma 1. This really reminded me of the strong saints in this branch and I shared it with some other missionaries in our branch. Sister Poklinkowska and I have been really feeling a need for charity among the branch and it just so happens that all the missionaries have as well, so we met up with our mission correlation director in the branch and pitched the idea that we were willing as missionaries to fast or pray for how we can help the branch and serve to the best of our ability. This lead to a discussion on charity for each other and members and ourselves.  Then as we started meeting with the members and showing a united front they have reacted wonderfully and everyone is preparing to fast the coming week that there can be more charity in the branch. It is amazing to me how the Lord works through us to the blessing of others! As I was directing the music in church on sunday( I really am terrified of doing that... no idea why;) I felt so much love for all of the members! There is a sweet family in our branch whose daughter hasn't been to church for a while and her husband is awesome and not a member. We have a good relationship with them and are trying to help them to take those next steps as their sweet little girl was blessed this week! So cool. Other than that we are really dry as far as investigators. I know there are people out there who are prepared for the word and we are working really hard to find them, I am sure that we will build a pool of wonderful souls seeking the truth this transfer, it is a blessing I have seen many times on my mission and look forward to seeing again.

Sisters in the Warsaw Zone 1 Branch with the sweetest little girl member!!

I am learning alot this transfer and I learned an amazing lesson this week. We had a leadership training session and we talked about changing the mission culture. I remembered coming into the mission and having so much love and excitement for the work, I still feel it, but as I've reflected on my missionary attitude I've decided that I too can really improve the "culture" of our mission and show these new and incoming missionaries How Much I Love Poland! And more importantly how much I love my Savior, for these two things really do go hand in hand. It was really great!

I hope that Rors has a great time at her play this week! The story of Aunt Rachel brought me to tears, I am so grateful for how the Lord watches over us as we strive to live our part. It is very sweet to know that as we live right we are always blessed to be where we need to be and when:) I am so grateful for that!

I pray for you all every night and I love you! It is a lovely season right now, except that one day it's lovely and the next is freezing rain... but that's how life can be sometimes:) It really makes me appreciate the lovely days!

I am excited to continue on the transfer and see what continues to happen. I love being a missionary and have so many miracles! We see how much peace is given to those with whom we speak.

I can't wait to share more about what happens this week! I love you all:)

Much Love,

Siostra Ali Hemming

I really love you all so much.

Hello, Hello! It's Beautiful!!!!

April 22nd, 2014

Delicious dinner at a members house!

Okay Family, so yesterday was a holiday in Poland called smingus dingus where everyone throws water and squirts everyone... so sorry I couldn't e-mail but I'm still doing great!!!

Easter was such a beautiful time. It was filled with joy and hope in the air. The resurrection of our Savior. What a blessed day.

I am sorry I have so much to say and not much time so it will be a bit jumbled...

Saying goodbye to Sister Stratton:(

So first off... my lovely Sister Stratton went off to Katowice and she seems to be doing so well. I love her so much and was sad to see her go! Then I waited at the station for my new companion Sister Poklinkowska!! She is so wonderful! She is a convert of a few years and has soooo much faith!! I love her so much and can't wait to spend a transfer with her. She has already taught me so much about who I am and what I can do as a missionary. She is one group younger than me but I'm pretty sure she is the most wise sister in the whole mission. We are working alot with the other Sisters on charity in the branch and we are feeling SOOOO much love!!! It is such a blessing. I love these sisters so much. I can't believe how lucky I am to be here!!!

Dying Easter eggs...with brown eggs!

I have learned alot of lessons this week. About love and true peace. About being a real person. I think that this hard time in my life has taught me so much about beign real. I know that we dont' have to be and aren't perfect, and therefore I don't need to expect that of myself and I certainly don't need to expect that of others. I think it has really opened my ability to love and feel more deeply for others in their times of need. I do know however that daily progression towards perfection is something I really desire:) I know that this is possible through my Savior and His atonement. Being a missionary during the Easter Season was the most fulfilling moment. I felt so much love and real knowledge that I was on the Lord's side. I know in whom I have trusted:) We had a delicious Polish dinner with a member who's daughter is currently inactive and her husband isnt' a member. They just had this lovely baby girl and we care so much about them all!

     We have had a lot of funny moments and enjoyed the lovely scenery around Poland!! Sometimes I get up and freak out because I'm in Poland!! I love this country so much and admire them all. I hope to feel that way more often!

     I love you all so much. I testify with all my heart of the love and the glory of our Savior Jesus Christ. He is my Redeemer. I know that He lives and I know that for my eternities I will praise His name because of what He did for me and who He is. He means more to me than I ever knew was possible. The Plan of Salvation includes all of the answers to life's hard questions. And we are taught them from birth!!! so lucky. We lived with God before this life, we have a divine purpose on earth and a Divine Savior to build us up at each step of the way and thanks to Him we will be together again. I couldn't help but think of all of my family members and especially my special Braxton. I know that we wil be resurected free from all ilness and all pain! what a lovely Day!

I love you!

Love, Siostra Hemming

Oh How Lovely Was the Morning!

Oh How Lovely Was the Morning!‏

Singing at the Catholic Mass! Amazing experience!!

April 14, 2014

The missionaries with Pres. and Sister Edgren

Dearest Family!

Hello Hello! Wow. I can't really explain this week very well except to say that it was one of the most beautiful and deep weeks I have had in my whole life. This transfer has been really hard. I have struggled with many things and the work has been slow and other things, but I testify with all the powers of my heart that this is the work of the Lord. " We need not ever feel that we are alone or unloved in the Service of the Lord because we never are. He has promised angels on our right and on our left to bear us up and He Always keeps His promises". I can attest to this fact. All of us who are striving to live and do the best we can are in the "work of the Lord'. I cannot well explain what happened, but I will try, keeping back some of the things that are personal to me to tell my family when I'm home:) I am staying in Warsaw and will be with Sister Poklinkowska who I love! Sister Stratton is going to kato with Sister Ott who I also love. Guess what... good and bad.. President has taken Sisters out of Kielce because they need more priesthood there and good though is that there will be four more sisters in our branch! Even better is that it will be sister Blake and sister Owen! yay:) I love them! I can't wait for our little branch!

Peeps!! Yummy!!

As this week started off, I fasted on Tuesday to remember who I am. I am so grateful for all of those who have prayed and fasted for me at home. I cannot express the immediate power I have felt in response. I read my letters from home, I read my patriarchal blessing " my real letter from home:)" and I prayed, alot. I saw a couple of interesting things... 1. I felt I understood better myself and who I am, was, and can be. 2. I KNEW that I was never alone. Then to finish it off I worked on a Family History Board. I have been working for some time on trying to find something to bless the lives of Polish people dotyczące family history, but I never actually did it. So I took my goals one little step at a time and we got to work on a huge board that explains what it is, how the church can help you do it, and why we do it! Oh how I LOVE my family!!! I read over some of my stories and was so grateful for the examples of my family members through the centuries. Szlachetna historia:) As I did this I was able to listen to the conference that I missed( all of it:)) How inspired! I pretty much just cried while I listened to it... good thing Sister Stratton and I are so close...We may have eaten a lot of chocolate;) ;) That day the most beautiful thing happened!

Easter package!! Wonderful!!!

Every day I look out my window during studies and see all of these wonderful people... down the street is this building and I wanted to tract it... that day I felt very inspired to do so. So we went over there that night and it ended up being a super exclusive place. In Poland you have to ring into a domofon to get into a building and this one had a gate with a domofon and then you had to ring at the building to get inside a klatka( building section). Someone walked right up next to us and let us into the gate and then the building and we started to tract. After like two houses I had the thought to tract speaking English. ( Super crazy because I LOVE to speak Polish) but we did it and at first it was awkward but we continued on and three apartments later this family opens. They ONLY speak English and Spanish. The dad is not really kind to us but the mom looks at us with so much hope, so the dad basically tells us we can come in but he won't talk to us. So we go in and she tells us that she is believing and has two daughters ( 8 and 4)! She says that she wants to meet and talk about the gospel because she is searching for a way to strengthen her faith!!!! It was soooo beautiful and meant so much to me. It was definitely just for me to know that I am lead by the Spirit.

Warsaw!!

We had a lesson with a lady who has schizophrenia(don't know how to spell) and she is such a sweetheart! One of our members was on the lesson and she was a lovely example of Christ-like love for me. She just hugged her and was so kind, the next day at church when she came our member just walked up to her and locked her arm in hers and took her away from us! That is member-missionary work! I love how we all receive revelation from the same source, and so we are taught things in Conference it may have been something we have been thinking on for a while and that is because the Lord has given us revelation to prepare. I think that these examples of deep and pure charity have been put in my path a lot recently and I LOVED President Monson's talk on it!

The next day none of our lessons flaked us! It was also a miracle, and from that time forth my week got better and better. I have had so many wonderful blessings on my mission. I know that Faith in the Savior Jesus Christ was and is the ONLY Rock whereon if men build they cannot fall. We have a member from Thailand who is an ANGEL! she let us in and we talked with her and her beaming smile just brightened my day so much. I have been looking around and loving Poland and remembering my purpose and it has blessed me immensely. How I love my mission. There are so many things that I love about it, and I can't believe I only have a few transfers left. I know that on everyone's mission and in everyone's life there are some lessons that must be learned. Because of these we can be stronger and deeper people. Joseph Smith said that we cannot even begin to comprehend the plan of God unless we've contemplated the darkest abyss and also felt the most overwhelming joy. I feel that because of this I understand others so much better. I feel humbled and so much less judgmental, I think Heavenly Father knew I needed a nice slice of humble pie.

Warsaw!

Then on Sunday we made a pie with the elders and I was able to talk with this cutest old man at a tramwaj stop. I wished him a happy Palm Sunday and he was just so happy and took of his green army cap and wished me a happy sunday!!! I love Poland! Afterwards I got onto a tramwaj and dropped my waterbottle on this ladies' foot... whoops, but what a great opportunity to talk about the gospel! So I did. We ended up having this lovely discussion about eternal families and I pulled out my Księga Mormona and my family picture and showed her a picture of the temple. She is from Russia and so we were struggling to understand each other, but when I talked about the temple she just started crying. It touched me so deeply. She told me that her husband was killed a few years ago and she works all day ( 6-8) at a magazine shope and her hands were so cut up and she had been drinking. It was such a special moment as I could share with her the things I have been taught since birth about how families can be together forever through Heavenly Father's plan, and how I am a Child of God as is she. At the end I was trying to show her that I was from the Church of Jesus Christ and she looked at my tag and grabbed it and then crossed herself and said a prayer while holding the tag... I know this may not sound cool to most of you but it touched my heart so deeply! I gave her a book of mormon and told her that it testifies of Christ and she kissed it and then put it into a protective bag and then into her purse. These are the kind of experiences that can be ours daily as we strive to follow the Holy Ghost and preach by the wayside. Oh how I have felt the Love of God shed abroad in my heart:)

Beautiful blossoming trees

 Sister Stratton and I have been talking and she said something about how it is hard sometimes when we work so hard but we don't have the results, and I think this transfer I've finally learned this lovely lesson. When we work hard people still have their free agency, but we are clean that bear the vessels of the Lord. I know that as a missionary hard work, obedience and Love for the Savior and the People changes us, it changes our very nature. For that I am so grateful.

I know that I have been so blessed by my Heavenly Father this week. I also know that we need to struggle in our lives to be made better, He never gives us things we can't handle if we only have faith. My Faith in my Savior is stronger, immensely because of this experience. I know that we live in an imperfect world, and that we are imperfect people, but this must be because we learn on whom we rely. The scriptures are my iron rod because they testify of the Savior who is the rock of our salvation. I know that if we build on this rock we cannot fall, but we can rise in a way that may appear like falling hahahaha! I know that I will have hard weeks on my mission and in my life, but I have become fascinated with the word "nevertheless". It is found in 2 Nephi 4, it is found in Alma 1 and it is found in Moses 1. Always when talking about the trials of life these strong men and women say " nevertheless" and then excersize faith in the Savior and His atonement. I am so grateful to say that I know that My Redeemer Lives. I am so grateful for this because none of us can atone for ourselves. We can't try and make up the difference by being perfect, we can only strive to love Him more dearly. I testify of the presence of angels in all of our lives, the talk about Family History is so important to us all. I know that we are here for a purpose and have a divine destiny and identity. satan's guise is ALWAYS for us to deny that. It is at the root of every temptation and problem. But we know who we are:)

I love you all so much! Sorry this one is so long, but I thank Heavenly Father for His answer to my prayers, and also for letting it take some time. Love Love Love,

Siostra Ali!

General Conference

04/07/2014

I love Warsaw!!

A lovely park in Warsaw!!

A Beautiful peacock!!

Diana's Temple!  Go Wonder Woman!!

Me and my Zeus!

My Apartment:)