Winslow Week Fourteen

At the Sipp Shoppe with our tasty, tasty sandwiches. SO TASTY.  

Hello, friends!! This week was so so busy! The good kind of busy!

Tuesday was MLC so I got to visit by beloved Farmington again and I gave my training on obedience (I think I told you about that last week?). It went better than I had hoped! And guess what!? For the first time in my LIFE that "fact" that stage fright melts away after talking in front of a crowd for 2 minutes was true! The anticipation before was awful, but once I got started, I was totally fine. I know God must have helped a lot. My training was sandwiched between a great training on faith and one on diligence and they all just blended together beautifully. I love to see heaven perfectly orchestrating things! The best part of MLC was the Assistants' training. It was on recognizing the Spirit and basically they put together a little movie/powerpoint thing and played some nice piano hymn music and we all just sat and pondered on the scriptures and quotes and questions that came on the screen and thought about how the Spirit speaks to us. It was really really really neat because the Spirit was already there before we started this exercise, but as soon as we were all focusing on feeling it, it was palpable. There's no feeling quite like being submersed in the Holy Spirit.

Another favorite thing about MLC was just the spirit of unity that I felt with the other missionaries and leaders there. Doctrine and Covenants 88:122 talks about how we should all listen to each other and our thoughts and point of views and as we do that, we'll all be edified together. I felt that at MLC. As we talked about what we as leaders could do to strengthen the other missionaries and to help us become better disciples of Jesus Christ, we felt an outpouring of the Spirit. That little room upstairs at the mission home was a holy place because we were seeking together to know the Lord's will. And that was especially neat because I know that so many other councils just like that take place all throughout the Church. And the heavens aren't sealed! God is SO willing to reveal His will if we just listen to His messenger, the Holy Ghost. That's something I learned at MLC and a special thing to be a part of.

So MLC was great!

Another major highlight this week was that we got to teach Alisha and Jordan about temples and eternal marriage and it was so so happy. She's really excited to go to the temple. And as we were all talking about how amazing and loving God is to give us temples and a little taste of heaven on earth, I just felt so at ease and content and absolutely not stressed. Sometimes teaching is stressful because you want to make sure you're saying the right thing and using enough scriptures and testifying and letting your companion talk and defining difficult words and all this stuff, but with the Paynes it's just like having deep, meaningful talks with true friends. We open up to each other and speak the feelings of our hearts and laugh and cry and celebrate the goodness of God and it's wonderful. Seeing them is always the highlight of my week. I'm so very excited for that family, in case I haven't mentioned that before. :)

Life is so good. We had the opportunity last night to watch a broadcast from President Nelson to all of the people of Arizona and it was so special. It was so neat to hear from him and his wife and to see the prophetic mantel that he has been given and hear about it from those closest to him. He really is the prophet of the true and living Lord. Jesus Christ leads His church today through him. The heavens are not closed! God is with us always!

Love,
Sister Bohman

At Campus of Care where we sing every Thursday :)  

Story time. Do you see this lock? Do you see what's wrong with it? Well on Wednesday night, Sister Clement was going to unlock the door of the church and our key got stuck. We spent like 10 minutes in the freezing cold trying to get it out, but it wouldn't budge. So we went inside and found someone to help us. He couldn't get it to move either! So he goes back inside to get one of the bishops who's a locksmith and it's just the two of us again. Sister Clement goes, "We should say a prayer." After she said a quick prayer, I had absolute faith and confidence that it would come out now. So I give it one more pull and it came out! With the whole lock. It was pretty hilarious. Prayer works! We realized afterwards that we could have prayed more specifically, like "Please let the key come out of the door, and only the key," but it gave us and a few other people a good laugh and we got our key back so I can't complain!