I hope everyone had a great week!
Monday was a crazy but good day! We moved apartments and had a zone bbq and basked in the last day of warm weather for the week. It was such a fun activity with everyone and with great food!! Our new apartment is also so great! Our old one had lots of problems so it's been great to leave it.
Tuesday we had a lesson with Anita and a member and it was so great she's killing it! We had two other lessons with her this week and she is so prepared. It's been such a blessing to spend time with her, I love her!
We also had a lesson with Lizzie this week which went so well. We talked a lot about prayer and how much that can help us find answers and give us peace. I'm so grateful for prayer and for the opportunity we have to talk to God and to tell Him everything. It really does change the night to day and give us the peace and direction we need. We also had a picnic with a potential which was way fun. We played Jenga and our foundation was a bible and it's like our lives! If we are rooted in the scriptures and Christ we won't fall no matter how hard the winds may blow.
We had an exchange this week and we were with sweet Sister Bolander! She's basically another masa and being able to spend another day with her was so fun!
Saturday we had a lesson with Dace and she's still killing it. She inspires me to be better! Every week she keeps growing and growing and it's such a tender mercy to be able to see. Saturday the elders also helped us move another bed into our apartment because Masa Bosvela was sleeping on a bed and I was sleeping in a doorway while Masa Lu was on the couch so it's nice now to have another bed! But we knew all the stuff wouldn't fit in a taxi so we carried it across Riga and on a tram (streetcar) to get it to our apartment and it was a sight to see! We had to make two trips and on one of them a nice man helped us carry some of the things to the tram stop! He had only been in Riga for one week and didn't really speak English and no Latvian but still the kindest person!
Church yesterday was sooo good! I got to sit next to Liga and first all the testimonies were so great. But Liga wanted to bear hers and she was nervous and I went to tell her something to try and help her know she can do it but as I looked at her I saw her head bowed in prayer. A few minutes later she opened her eyes and looked at me and told me peace had overcome her. I love this gospel. I love Heavenly Father who gives us the peace we need each and every day!! We also had a really good Sunday school lesson. One thing I loved was in the verses John 7:17
If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.
one member had a great analogy with this. He said we can't learn to drive a car just by reading books but we must actually be in the car to fully understand and learn. The gospel is the same way! We need to read the scriptures to know what the gospel is but then we need to live it to have it become rooted in our souls and to fully understand it. I have seen how true it is. Not until I have lived a principle I've studied does it completely become a part of me. Action is so important!
Thank you for everything and have a great week! And happy early Mother's Day!!
Love,
Masa Brunere
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