Hi family

Wow!! Time has gone by soooo fast! Yesterday I had a year left on my mission! I wish it would slow down, but I'm learning a lot anyway. I really don't want to miss a moment, because it's just so great to be helping others to come closer to Christ! I can't really write down one thing that I've learned, but I have learned how to love people no matter their appearance. It's scary to go up to a person and just start talking with them, but when you get passed that fear and see them how God would see them, it becomes a lot easier. We talked with this homeless guy who wanted to watch the Testaments and he looked kind of sketch, but we showed him into the theater and he basically told us his life story. He had just moved here and he wanted to turn his life around and to get a job! He didn't have an address or a phone number, so we can't get in contact with him, but we bore our testimonies and we left him to watch the movie. We can only hope that it made a difference and that when he gets back on his feet that he can come to Temple Square and learn more. 

I have also learned that we can't just sit idly by and let the Lord take care of everything because we need to show Him that we want it and that we're going to do everything we can first to get it and then He will provide the rest. I have learned to trust in the Lord that when I do my part He will help me! There is a story in the Book of Mormon that I absolutely love, it is in Alma 47 and it's about Amalickiah and Lehonti. If you don't remember Read it!! So Amalickiah was a wicked man and he wanted to dethrone the king, so he asked Lehonti to come down from his mountain to talk with him, but Lehonti said No. So Amalickiah went up to him and asked Lehonti to come down just a little bit. So Amalickiah became the second in command and he poisoned Lehonti with degrees until he eventually died and Amalickiah took over and it just became this horrible mess and it's because that Lehonti went down just a little bit that he died and if we don't choose today to do all we can and trust in the Lord that we will also fall. If we trust in the Lord and do our part to stay up on that mountain and not to come down even a little bit that the Lord will bless us and we will see the Lord's hand in our lives. So read this chapter because it's so cool and you can learn a lot from this! 

You are all great and remember to Choose the Right! 

Love you all!!

                                       

                                  Sister Stolp