A big miracle this week was Easter Sunday! We have 3 wards, but we unfortunately weren't made aware of the fact that one of our 9:00 wards was going to be combined with our 10:30 ward, and this was the ward that Jacobo and his mom had been planning on coming to. They ended up driving 20 minutes to our other 9:00 ward which was such a miracle because we've been trying to get them at church for WEEKS now, and they finally made it even though it didn't quite go to plan. 🙏 We ended up having the most friends at church I've ever had on my mission and they were all unexpected. It was so cool to see that people were willing to make the effort to come worship on the greatest day in history!
Fun things of this week:
★ Highlight of the week was Zone Conference! This was the Nielsens’ 2nd-to-last zone conference, and they spent an hour just giving little pieces of advice. They were all super specific and it was such a Spirit-filled part of the conference.
★ Sand volleyball on pday! 🏐 Except the sand was pretty much just pebbles and it'd been cooking in the 95-degree weather all day, so I'm fairly positive we all had 2nd-degree burns on our feet by the end of that. It was way fun though and my team won. 💪
★ Easter concert! Jenny Oaks Baker came back to Las Vegas for an Easter concert, and we got to go with Veronica. It was amazing, of course, and was such a good intro to the next day, Easter! 🎻
★ We had such a long day on Thursday and were so ready to go to bed, so I went out to grab water before we got in bed and I saw the most gigantic cockroach I've ever seen running across the floor towards me.🪳 So I yell for Sister Arce because she's way braver than me, and for the next 20 minutes she was hunting for that thing. She finds it, kills it. Next morning I'm saying my morning prayer, and I look over for who knows what reason, another GIANT cockroach is in my closet. It was fortunately already dead but Sister Arce also had to dispose of that one. Best comp ever!! 🥰
I reread one of my favorites talks this week called "Sunday Will Come" by Elder Wirthlin and this is kind of long, but I especially loved this part.
"I think of how dark that Friday was when Christ was lifted up on the cross. I think that of all the days since the beginning of this world’s history, that Friday was the darkest. But the doom of that day did not endure. The despair did not linger, because on Sunday, the resurrected Lord burst the bonds of death. He ascended from the grave and appeared gloriously triumphant as the Savior of all mankind. Each of us will have our own Fridays—those days when the universe itself seems shattered, and the shards of our world lie littered about us in pieces. We all will experience those broken times when it seems we can never be put together again. We will all have our Fridays. But I testify to you in the name of the One who conquered death—Sunday will come. In the darkness of our sorrow, Sunday will come. No matter our desperation, no matter our grief, Sunday will come. In this life or the next, Sunday will come."
I know that Sunday will come! Sometimes it feels like those Fridays never really end, that it seems impossible for Sunday to come, but I know that it will, thanks to Jesus Christ and His atoning sacrifice for us.
I hope you all had a good week and really took this week to focus on Christ and the miracle of His Resurrection! Love you all!
🤍 Hna. Pursglove
Photographs Below :)
1. Zconnn 😎 (main photo above)
2. He Is Risen! Drawn by Maykel
3. Post-volleyball on scorching pebbles
4. Concert with Veronica!
5. Promised land
6. Downtown LV! 🤑
7. Pretty sunset!
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