Week 55- Party prep...

The next couple weeks are going to be a party.... we are more than doubling our mission! We currently have about 110 missionaries serving, and we are receiving 170 more in the next couple weeks who have been reassigned! Crazy. So we are preparing for that by really focusing on obedience and technology use to make sure that we set a good tone for all the new missionaries coming in. Obedience brings miracles! 

We were able to teach Jillian the restoration, and we got her a physical copy of the Book of Mormon! Her member friend was able to drop one off to her. And she LOVES the Book of Mormon videos. She's making up for all of the other people we are teaching who are dropping off the face of the planet haha. 

The weather has started warming up! We got to the mid 60's this week and there are faint signs of green on some of the trees as we go on our walks and runs. So that is exciting even if everything at home is already a month ahead of us haha. 

This week we finished memorizing the Restoration proclamation that came out this last conference! It has been so neat. A favorite section of mine says, "As a companion scripture to the Bible, the Book of Mormon testifies that all human beings are sons and daughters of a loving Father in Heaven, that He has a divine plan for our lives, and that His Son, Jesus Christ, speaks today as well as in days of old." I just want to add my witness that the Book of Mormon really has testified to me that we are beloved sons and daughters of God and that Jesus Christ can speak to us today, often times through the Book of Mormon! It's amazing. 

Love, Sister Potts

FUN FACTS:  (Moves part 2)

1. In early June 1829, Joseph moved to Fayette, NY to finish the translation of the Book of Mormon, and Emma followed soon after.

2.  Following the completion of translation, and after securing a copyright, Joseph moved back to Harmony.

3. Between April and June 1830 Joseph and Emma spent time in Palmyra, Manchester, Fayette, and Colesville, but they moved so much I'm going to consider it a long vacation rather than a move haha.

4. Around August of that year opposition in Harmony forced Joseph and Emma to move back to Fayette.

5. During the third conference of the church in January of 1831, Joseph announced a revelation given that directed the Saints to move to 'the Ohio'. Joseph and Emma left in the end of January. 

Well there we go folks! with 10 moves from last week +4 from today we have approx 14 moves from 1805-Jan 1831. There may be something I missed but that's what I got from the info I've been given from the church history department!