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It's not about you, it's about the Savior!

Hola Hola! Just over here living a pretty great life. I officially made it through my first fast Sunday as a missionary. Lets just say that the MTC cafeteria is a whole new world on a fast Sunday evening. It was also April Fools Day on Monday, as many of you probably know, and we tried to pull a prank on our teacher and he didn't believe it for a second so that was unfortunate. My Aunt Brenda sent Krispy Kreme donuts and soft pretzels last week, and it was like Christmas for all the sisters in the residence it was hilarious. And same with everything my mom sends; I have pretty great people in my life. 

We finished teaching Hazel on Friday and starting teaching a cute girl named Desiree this week. We got to teach her about how Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ are two separate people and how they both love us so much. And next we'll be teaching her about the Atonement because she has a lot of questions about that. We had  a super great discussion in class this week about the Atonement and it really changed my perspective and helped me feel the love of my Savior so much more in my life. Just remember that Christ was the only person that could have suffered and performed the Atonement. And that was hard. That wasn't an easy thing for him to do. I want to invite you all to read D&C 19:17-19. The dashes in those verses represent a pause in revelation.  Read it out loud very slowly, and when you get to the dashes in verse 18, pause for a few seconds at each one. Pay attention to what tone of voice that portrays coming from the savior and how that makes you feel. I know the savior loves us so much and the way we can show him that we love him is by using his atonement and not wasting his sacrifice. 

Hermana Marler and I got made sister training leaders on Sunday so we get to do orientation with the new district coming in today which I'm super excited about. We also get to do interviews with all the zone sisters every week so I'm excited to get to know them better and hopefully I'm able to help them with whatever they need. 

The Tuesday devotional this week was Elder Takashi Wada of the seventy and it was super great! Him and his wife are so cute and they talked about how we don't know the effect we may be having on the people around us and so we must always remember that we are disciples of Christ. As missionaries and as Latter Day Saints, we stand out. We can use that to bring others closer to their Savior. One of the things that he briefly said was, "It's not about you, it's about the Savior." And that stood out to me because that is something that I've tried to remind myself of often since arriving at the MTC because it truly is all about the savior. And even if you're not a full time missionary, I know that by reaching outwards and towards Christ, you will experience true joy. 

JOY:
Jesus
Others
Yourself
I can testify that it works. 

I love you all so much!! 

Hermana Pendleton 





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