Macey Gates: Sister Macey Gates // Week Fifty-Four // "I'm Having Another Baby"

This week i have truly learned how much God loves his children, and that he has a plan for every single one of us. Its makes me so sad to hear about Britton, but i have felt so much peace, i know everything will be okay. Something that we don't always look at is how the atonement works. In order for us to learn and progress, we have to go through trials, good and bad. But we always have christ right by our side if we are keeping the commandments and doing whats right. Christ paid for everything. Absolutely everything. There is no need to complain, about anything cause christ already took care of it. In order for us to use the atonement, we have to feel somewhat of what christ went through. With this pain and sorrow, we feel Gods love, if we turn to him, and have faith in him. In our trials is when we learn the most. We must always ask ourself what really matters? We must always have an eternal perspective. This lifetime is so short, its a time to prepare to meet our Heavenly Father. To help us prepare he gave us the gospel of Jesus Christ, the scriptures, the prophets, to guide us back to our heavenly father. God wants all of his children to make it back to him, but its up to us to choose that path, to have faith, to repent everyday, and to keep the commandments. We walk by faith, every single day. And faith without works is dead. Every single day we have to commit to living a christ-like life, serving others, doing as he would. As we come unto him, he will give us rest. I know this church is true. God loves all of you more than you could ever imagine. Never loose faith. John 14:27

So i got some good news:) Im having another baby! I get to train again:) And this time by myself. Im super excited!! And i'm staying in Moreno Valley! Since it was halloween this week, we got the chance to carve pumpkins with a few families, super fun! One girl asked me what i was for Halloween(cause we were going to go to a ward halloween party after) And i told her to guess. (So i had this orange skirt on, with a white shirt and a brown cardigan) She said "Hermana Gates are you a cigarette?"...I was dying. It was so funny!! I said no, i'm trying to be a pumpkin. She told me i definitely looked like a cigarette... as we were leaving "BYE CIGARETTE" haha so funny! For dinner on halloween, we ate cow cheek tacos. They didn't tell me what it was at first, they just said it was from a cow. It was so good so i ate 6 haha then they told me it was cow cheek. I would definitely eat it again! Then Halloween night we went to the stake center with our zone and played chair soccer for about 2 hours and then we watched the Best 2 Years. It was a super fun Halloween:) As for our investigators, Miguel the kid that we have been working with is not doing good, he got kicked out of his house, he came to church but didn't talk to anyone. We went to look for him at home and we found him sitting on the curb with a cigarette behind his ear, waiting to smoke it. We tried so hard to talk with him, to help him out. He wouldn't listen. He was crying too. It made me so sad to see him like that. I just started bawling when i got in the car. I just want the best for everyone. We did have a less active family come to church! And a former investigator called us on her own for directions for the church and came! Im super excited to take over this area and train again. We dropped Hermana Ashby off this morning and she was just freaking out she was so excited to go to Argentina haha i'm so excited for her! Today is crazy, i don't have a companion right now, we have to clean our appt. and switch the elders! Its gonna be a crazy day! Never forget how much i love all of you.

Hermana Gates:)