你好 everyone :-) I hope this week was a stellar one!!!!

Pretty slow week for us but we had MLC again and it's basically this meeting where we council about the things this mission needs. One of the challenges our mission President extended was to re-read our mission call. And I want to share some cool thoughts I had.

There's a part at the end that particularly stuck out to me. It says, "We place our confidence in you." 

In the dictionary it says that confidence mean to have a feeling of trust, and belief in yourself or your abilities. Sometimes I truly think I'm not good enough to be out here teaching people about Jesus Christ. There's many more qualified people that could do this. And that's true. But the Prophet placed his trust in ME. ME!!!!!! That's a scary!!!!

All the time we think were not good enough. People make us feel bad or someone says something really mean or we keep thinking about past mistakes we've made. It's unfair. Truly. But as my dad would always say, "Life's unfair" and it is. It totally just is not fun sometimes. We go through some of the worst things while here in mortality. But each thing we go through, each trial or hardship is preparing us for the blessings that are right ahead of us.

We had a beautiful beautifulllll lesson last night with a friend. She asked us, "Why does God care." 

So why does He? Why is this all such a big deal?? Can't we just come to earth and live our life and then just die and be okay? Being a good person is fine? Whatever Heaven is I'm sure it's great but I don't care. I hear that all the time and it makes me sad because it does matter. And when you can say to yourself that God does care and that this life does matter and that making Covenants with God does matter, we can start to see our potential. And then realize that God has placed trust and confidence in us, to even be here right now on the earth. The best people were saved for the last days and that matters! What we do matters!! What we say matters even more!!!! How we treat people matters!!!!!!!!! Everything flippin matters and it makes me so sad when people think they're not good enough. Everyone is loved, every single gosh darn person on this earth both past and present and future is loved beyond our understanding. We can't even comprehend it!!!! And we sit here and think we're not good enough?? No way. That's never been the plan and it never will be. 

Confidence is hard. It is. Especially when the world tells you to be one way and church says to be another. It's a battle. But we can know our potential and see that everything does matter if we want to. We are awesome. We CAN be forgiven for mistakes. Life is SO awesome. It's hard and sucks, yes. But it's awesome. Really and truly wouldn't want life to be any other way. I hope you all can ask yourself if you are confident in your abilities. Are you using to Atonement everyday to become better? If not, I challenge you to do so. It's there, available for everyone. Jesus Christ already suffered it. Just knock and it will be opened. We can gain that confidence we truly want by using the Atonement, realizing how sick awesome this life and remembering that everything does matter :-)

I LOVE YOU GUYS. HAVE A GOOD WEEK AND WE DIDNT TAKE PICTURES IM SO SORRY HERE'S THE SUNSET :)))))

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S. Lockhart