This week we had our Relief Society activity, themed "A Trip to Oz." Sister Meeks and I helped decorate cupcakes with Sister Guymon for the event (I spent most of the time cutting out the rainbow wrappers to put around the cupcakes), and it was deliciously fun.
We had some really great lessons this week. Do you remember the miracle phone call I talked about a little while back? Well, we met with the man this week, and it was a very insightful lesson. He's probably one of the most interesting people I've met thus far, and Sister Meeks and I walked out of the lesson with some crazy new insights. His main question was whether the story of Adam and Eve was literal or a figurative representation on how men and women grow together, sin together, and fall together and how it still happens today. Well, my thought was "why not both?"
Yesterday was ward conference, and we had the opportunity to listen to President Corbitt speak. He talked about how in the scriptures it says that "For it must needs be, that there is an opposition in all things" (2 Nep 2:11), and that when there's a problem or obstacle, there's a built-in solution! Opposition isn't a bad thing; it's what makes us grow. Instead of looking at trials like we're falling in a pit, it's more like rungs to a ladder to help us climb higher.
In Relief Society we talked about being perfect. God commanded us to be perfect (Matt 5:48), which sounds impossible, right? Well, we know from Nephi that "the Lord giveth no commandments unto the children of men, save he shall prepare a way for them that they may accomplish the thing which he commandeth them." (1 Nep 3:7) So, even though it's hard to become perfect, God has provided us a way to do that. Think about this: Jesus wasn't perfected until he was resurrected. When Christ was on this earth, he said "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect" (Matt 5:48). After he was resurrected, he then said to the Nephites, "Therefore I would that ye should be perfect even as I, or your Father who is in heaven is perfect" (3 Nep 12:48). So, we can be perfect, it just won't be in this life.
I love all of you, and I hope you keep praying, reading your scriptures, and asking for miracles.
Love,
Sister Singleton
Outside of Love Park with Sisters Gawu and Argueta.
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