Monday, February 9, 2015

Crush Satan's Head!

I've been wondering why I'm in Tupelo and why I'm an STL. I received an answer this week. After MLC Sister Allred and I decided to have a sister conference call. In this conference call I was super honest about my life long struggles with perfectionism, negative thoughts, and how I've learned to rely on the Lord. I knew the sisters needed to hear it, but not gonna lie it was hard to tell everyone my weakness because I'm very much still working on yoking myself to the Savior. Listening to the wrong voice is something I have to fix every day of my life. Some days are better than others, but I don't like to have people notice I'm struggling. The spirit told me to share my experiences so I did. I hope it helped the sisters. My answer to my prayer was that I need to get over the powerful effect I can have on people, be myself, and lead by example. I'm progressing.

Alma 43 Emmaus experience.

Remember Satin's Intentions vs. 29-30

Prepare for attack vs. 33

Protect the vital parts of our spirits vs. 38

Protection on all sides (help each other) vs. 41-43

Christ is constant vs. 46

Rely on the Lord as a family/army vs. 49-51

Enemies encircled (our negative thoughts) vs.52-53

Our thoughts control our destiny.

This week was like one big Emmaus experience! We met Joshua! Once upon a time we contacted 123 people in the mall during hour of power and only 2 people said they were interested. This week we walked into Wendy's and started talking to a man and he proceeded to tell us his whole life story and how he doesn't know his purpose, wants to come closer to God, and doesn't know why he is in Tupelo. He continued to explain that his girlfriend told him that she was having his baby, but she found out that it wasn't his 5 months in! This man was lost and confused and we just happened to run into him at Wendy's! It was all the Lord! HE IS SO ELECT! He even worked on the broken pipes in the Tupelo building!!!! That's why the pipes broke!!!!! AAHHHHHHHHHHHHH! He's getting baptized on February 28th!!!!!!! Joshua, what an answer to prayer. This experience was just as if God literally told me himself "Trust me I got this!" Thank you, thank you Heavenly Father.

Love you So much!


Sister Gibbs
Shiloh National Military Park in Tennessee
(Thanks to Sis. Larsen for taking the Sisters on a site seeing tour!!)

 Sisters at Cemetery where the soldiers were laid to rest.

Why were the Wisconsin Soldiers buried in a circle?



 Sisters at Pittsburg Landing where the Union Soldiers came ashore


Brown (white) house where the Union Generals met to plan the Battle of Booneville

Right foot in Tennessee, left foot in Mississippi

Exhausted Sisters having nightmares of the Civil War Battle of Shiloh, 
photo by Sister Williams, the only one still awake.

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