Bloxham Missionary News: Hermana Bloxham - Faith is our way to access the Power of God!

Heyyy!

It has been an awesome week!! We have been insanely tired but we have
been blessed beyond belief this week for our work! Last week, all of
manhattan did an APF which is just like when missionaries get together
and focus on one area to help them find new people to teach and stuff
like that. This week for Easter, we all did chalk drawings. We had the
theme of "because of Him" a super awesome video the church made for
Easter. It's still on lds.org! If you haven't seen it, watch it! It
talks about all of the things that were made possible for us because
of Christ and his atonement. So we were outside drawing with chalk and
we invited other people to write the things that they were grateful
for because of Christ. It was super fun and we got to meet a lot of
cool people! So many people are so strong in their belief in Christ.
They love him so much and I think it's just amazing! Especially the
Hispanic people. Most of them have been raised Catholic and had an
amazing upbringing in a Christ centered home. A lot of people who grow
up in America don't have that same love for him. I just think it's so
great!
Anyways! I'll send pictures of it for sure!

On Monday, we had an amazing training from our Mission President. He
has been talking about taking our mission to the next level and he
believes that to do that, we need to plan more effectively and make
more reaching goals. I'm going to share some of the things he said. He
talked about Faith, and how we need to have the faith that anything is
possible through Christ. We can't let our human imperfect knowledge
put a limit on what God can do.
"Make no small plans, for they have no magic to stir men's souls". -
President Spencer W Kimball.
Faith is a principle of power:
-1 cor 2:5--> Isaiah 55:8 the power of god can only be accessed
through our faith.
-The faith we have in us does not come from man, but of God.
-Alma 18:34-35 see the evidences of our faith. God can only work
through our faith.
Faith in Jesus Christ empowers courage:
-Moroni 7:33 god gives us the power to do everything if we let him,
through our faith.-1 Nephi 3:7.
I just love how he talked about how having faith in Christ isn't just
a passive belief but an action and if we really want to see our goals
happen, we need to make plans and make them happen, not just wait for
miracles.
Remember the September goal from last September? He invited all of us
to become consecrated. And in turn that we would all have a baptism in
September. That month we had 57 baptisms. Which was awesome! But on
Monday morning President Morgan again set a goal for us as a mission
that From Easter Sunday to the end of May we would have 100 baptisms
as a mission. It's been super crazy! We are so excited and ready to
take on this challenge! But we need your help! Please pray for us! Do
all that you can to help us see this goal come to pass. I will make
sure to keep you updated on our progressing investigators and how they
are doing so you can pray for them as well! I know that this will
never be able to happen if we don't receive divine help through your
prayers and ours!

I am so thankful to all of you and I know that this is The Lords work.
We can all be a part of it if we act in faith and invite all those
around us to meet with the missionaries! It is a call from a prophet
of The Lord to do His work in His way.

I love you all so much!

Love,

Hermana Jessica Bloxham