Spiritual Directory Assistance...

Well this week wasn't anything important other than my district is making a dope song!!! SUPER Excited lol here is something that took me 30 minutes to type up I hope you guys enjoy it!!! I love you all~

Sister Prather

 

 

 

When you need to feel loved ..................................................................John 1513

When you need to resolve ......................................................................Matthew 18:15

when you need help in school..................................................................D&C 136:32

When it seems like your problems will never end.....................................D&C 121:7-8

When you need the right answer..............................................................JAMES 1:5-6

When you need to make a decision .........................................................D&C 9:8-9

When you need confidence ......................................................................PROVERBS 3:5-6

When you want blessings...........................................................................D&C130:20-21

When you are afraid .................................................................................D&C 6:36

When you need comfort ...........................................................................ISAIAH 49:15-16

When you need to receive revelation........................................................ALMA 26:22

When you are stressed out .......................................................................D&C10:4

When you need to develop a testimony .....................................................ALMA 32:28

When you need strength ..............................................................................ETHER 12:27

When you need to know how the Atonement works ..................................ALMA 42:22-25
When your prayers aren't being answered .................................................D&C 98:1-3

When you need a role model .....................................................................ALMA 53:20

When you want to be treated better...........................................................3NEPHI 14:12

When you are feeling Judgmental............................................................MATTHEW 7:1-3

When you are unhappy with a leader...........................................................MORMON 9:31

When you need to get over your weaknesses ............................................ETHER12:27

When you need a testimony of the Book of Mormon ....................................MORONI 10:3-5

When people disappoint you ..........................................................................LUKE 23:34

When you need to win against Satan..............................................................D&C 10:5

When you need faith in the prophet  ..............................................................D&C 21:4-5

When you need proof there is a God................................................................ALMA 30:44

When  you need courage to share your talents .................................................D&C 60:2

When someone has wronged you.........................................................................D&C 64:9

When you need a sign ......................................................................................ETHER12:6

When you need to correct someone ...........................................................D&C 121:43-44

When you need Mercy .................................................................................3NEPHI 9:14

When adversity is Overwhelming ..............................................................D&C 122:3-8

When you want to please God...................................................................MARK 12:33

When you need to get more out of your efforts ...............................................2 NEPHI 32:9

When you need to know the purpose of life.......................................................MOSES 1:39

Exciting Photos!!!

This was super cool!!!

made me think of Brother Keel...Missing Peeps from my ward family!!!

 A Missionary (Sister Nala)

A member drew this special for me!  I was so excited!!!

Very Exciting Reunion!!!

 This is a very close family friend "Elder Isiah Halsey" I found out here on my mission and he has gone all around telling everyone how we are cousins...LOL...Pretty Cool!!!  I was so blessed to get the chance to meet up and snag this pic for my mom!  

"Homesickness is a blessing"

So this week I have been super duper Homesick for different reasons and my trainer in her infinite wisdom shared with me a talk that her young womens leader had sent her during her mission. I cant remember it fully but the jest of it was. The feeling of homesickness is a blessing because the love we have for our families is what pushes us. We don't remember the PreMortal life because if we did we would have never grown. and feeling the spirit can be related to the feeling of missing home.. when we learn about the gospel and about our heavenly fathers love we feel something.. we cant quite explain it but the closest thing that this sister had to relate it to was our spirits our home sick and we remember just a little bit of what home felt like. I know i didn't do the letter justice but it made me feel really good inside I hope i didn't butcher it to horribly. I have a poem that i finally found it was given in one of the talks at the MTC and I found it! Ah excited! 

Father, where shall I work today'

And my love flowed warm and free.

Then He pointed me out a tiny spot,

And said,"Tend that for me."

I answered quickly,"Oh no, not that.

Why, no one would ever see, 

No matter how well my work was done.

Not that little place for me!"

And the word He spoke, it was not stern,

He answered me tenderly,

"Ah,little one, search that heart of thine;

Art thou working for them or me'

Nazareth was a little place, 

And so was Galilee."

How amazing that poem is is just ahhh lol I felt a little bummed that I didnt go over seas for different reasons but when this poem was read I sat up and I sat not proud cause pride is bad but I was very well pleased that I had been called to Carlsbad and It has been AMAZING!! I Love all of you sooo stinking much and I miss you all too sorry this week is so scattered its been a weird one but hopefully more updates later !

 All my love

Sincerely Sister Prather

Dear Parents and Loved Ones of Missionaries Serving in the California Carlsbad Mission:

Some of you may have heard of the earth quake in Chile last night and the remote possibility of a tsnamii hitting Southern California today. According to the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, we are not under any warning, watch or advisory (ptwc.weather.gov) but there may be some contrary reports out there. I have been told by locals that this particular section of Southern California has a natural protection against tsunamis because of strategically placed coastal islands and a barrier reef, nevertheless we will continue to monitor the government website.

I have called our coastal zones and asked each missionary to re-read our emergency preparedness plan before leaving to work today. If you have any questions, please respond to this email.

Thanks for all your support and encouragement for our young missionaries.

Sincerely,
President Kendrick

All is well! Photo week

Sorry that there is only pictures this week!  Just want everyone to know I'm doing wonderful and I'll try to write next week!  Hope you're all doing as amazing as I am!!!

Sincerely Sister Prather

 Sis. Prather & Sis. Forsyth made it into the Ward Bulletin!!!

Having lunch with the Elders & Sis. Forsyth with an awesome mural of the General Lee in the background!!!  

"Slash" from Guns & Roses in a stained glass window!!!  Really cool!

I can't believe it is 107 degrees today!!!  It's really HOT here!!!

Special Blessings week 8/6

Okay Guys,

 Sorry I am pressed on time this week! But something cool happened! Okay so Me and my companion got food poisoning and it stunk so badly and we were in the apartment for half of the week.  So we get a call (Because today is transfer day! But me and Sister Forsyth knew are staying for her last transfer!!!) saying we are being Doubled out! 
 Psych...it was just the AP messing with us. lol...so we tell him she is sick and he asked my trainer if she has gotten a blessing yet and she said no and he was silent for like 2 minutes straight, so taking the hint, she had asked him if he would give her a blessing?  This made me thrilled because I needed one too! 

So not to share too personal of something as special as your blessing I was given permission to share this part of it... in her blessing She was promised that there are people waiting for her and that we will enter into the waters of baptism this transfer!!!! Whhhhhaaaaaatttttttt......which this is absolutely amazing (because Our hearts have been depressed because of the lack of progression we've had here in this area!) and in mine it said, that as i find my courage, that when i open my mouth the truth will be proclaimed.  Now any of you that know me knows I don't have a problem with being shy at all!!!  But, when it cause to teaching I freak out, i'm nervous, i sweat, and i cant think of anything cause my mind goes blank.  So receiving that blessing was very much needed!  I knew it was from my Heavenly Father and I was sooo comforted!  I love you guys so much... I'm sorry I didn't write more, but maybe next weeks will make up for this!  Bets of luck and see y'all next week! 

Love, Sister Prather

Sick and stuck at home...

So Sis. Forsyth and I got
  FOOD POISONING and
this is me trying to help her
feel better by playing/brushing
her hair.   Feeling GREEN.....

Pictures from week 8-31-15 to 9-8-15

Me & Sis. Cartenza...She is Hilarious and she reminds me of my cousin Kristen

So, I'm a missionary yes, 

but I had to send a selfie

 because I look so awful 

in all of my other photos 

I have sent...lol...I 

couldn't resist the urge...lol

Me and Sis. Forsyth at the Marina 

Coolest Mirror EVER!!!  

and Yes...I bought it!

Beautiful Sunset off the coast

Best District EVER!!! 

Cool sign off HWY.

Coolest Zone LORD ever...Were best buds!!! 

Elder Shock

My companion fell asleep out in the middle of the living room, so I had to set up camp and in the middle of the night she slept walked back to bed...and I felt a disturbance in the force so I too went back to my bed...lol

There was a fire but we are all good!!!  No worries...

I had to take a picture of this sign...it was too funny not to.  Cheating x-boyfriend Apartment Yard/sale...Wow...

Me and Hermana Adkins

Hermana Adkins, me, & Hermana Cartenza

"Joe's Crab Shack" it was so awesome!!!  We got coupons to eat here and they said it was because we were so pretty

Just got my Momma 4 Tattoo put on...lol...Such a goof-ball!

Seals sunbathing off the pacific coast

It's 5:13pm and 100 degrees out here....HOT!!!

"TOP GUN House!!!"
This is where top gun was actually shot for the movie with the house scenes.

Sometimes God Says NO! Week 7/5

I asked God to take away my pride,

And God said "No." 

He said it wasn't his to take away,

But for me to give.

I asked God to make my Handicapped child whole, 

And God said "No."

he said her Spirit is whole.

Her body is only temporary.

I asked God to grant me patience'

And God said "No."

He said patience is a by-product of tribulation,

It isn't granted it is earned.

I asked God to give me Happiness,

He said "No."

He said he gives blessings,

Happiness is up to me.

I asked God to spare me pain,

And God said "No." 

He said "Suffering draws you apart from worldly cares 

and brings you closer to me."

I asked God to make my spirit grow'

And God said "No." 

He said I must grow on my own'

But he will prune me to be fruitful.

I asked God if He loved me, 

And God said "Yes!" 

He sent his only son, who died for me.

And I will be in heaven someday because I am Teachable.

I asked God to help me love others as much as he loves me,

And God said 

"Ah Finally, You have the Idea!"

So I found this poem from a sister who heard it in sacrament and I loved it so much because its sooo true Sometimes God tells us "No." and it is in no way because he doesn't love us! its because he loves us that he tells us No. He knows everything and he knows what we NEED instead of what we want and We need to have FAITH and not doubt the all knowing and Loveing Heavenly Father!

 I also learned this week about Patience lol crazy I know but I had a discussion on it last week that I think went very well!one of the Scriptures I shared wasn't a traditional "patience" scripture Alma 7:23 And now I would that ye should be humble, and be submissive and gentle; easy to be entreated; full of patience and long-suffering; being temperate in all things; being diligent in keeping the commandments of God at all times; asking for whatsoever things ye stand in need, both spiritual and temporal; always returning thanks unto God for whatsoever things ye do receive. 

Are we thanking God for everything we Receive? I know I 'm not even though I do my very best I get caught up in my own world and Poor me and when I do that...When I don't have patience I don't have Faith in the Lords Timing! I am inadvertently doubting that God knows what's best for me! So that's my little take of the week Its been an Interesting week to say the Very Least but when me and My Companion trust in the lord forget everything else and just listen to the spirit we are constantly blessed! I hope this Email wasn't negative and I hope that it helps one of you I love Each and every one of you like you wouldn't Believe! I am feeling your Prayers and I'm working my hardest to please the Lord and everyone who is praying for me out there!
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Sincerely Sister Prather