💛🌵 3/2/20

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 Hello everyone!

What an amazing week! The weather here is absolutely beautiful. Its stayed between 70-85. I have a VERY nice farmer's tan coming in. Sister Miner and I have decided that we want to take advantage of the nice weather and bike so were biking 3 days a week while it's not horribly hot.😊
We had some great contacts and lessons this whole week. Including putting Keith on date for baptism!! He's been taught since last June but finally decided it was time to be baptized. He's set for March 28th. Please keep him in your prayers!❤ 
This week in my study I was reading through Alma 13. It was Tuesday so it was a day before the new transfer. Something we have to do each transfer is pick a Christlike attribute to focus on. I had the feeling to work on hope, but started questioning it while I was studying. In Alma 13:12 there is a footnote to Romans 8. Why I looked at this footnote I'm not sure, but I felt prompted to start reading. While going though I continued to ponder what attribute to work on I got to verses 24 and 25 which says, "For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it." So, Heavenly Father made it pretty clear I need to work on hope this transfer! 
What I realized really quickly as well is I honestly don't understand what hope is. Hope has a few definitions. "The general feeling the some desire will be fulfilled". "Some possibility of fulfillment". Sounds vague, but this is not what hope is in the spiritual sense. In Preach my Gospel it says, "Hope is an abiding trust that the Lord will fulfill His promises to you. It is manifest in confidence, optimism, enthusiasm, and patient perseverance. It is believing and expecting that something will occur." God is a God of miracles. (2nd Nephi 27:23) But He works according to our faith and as it teaches in Ether you can't have faith without hope nor hope without faith. If I truly have faith in God, I will believe and expect that He will work miracles. Now, keep in mind the scripture in Romans, "hope that is seen is not hope". Just because I have hope does not mean everyone I meet, contact, and teach here will get baptized. But it does mean that God will pour down blessings and strengthen my testimony. It does mean He will be there and send His spirit to help me teach in those situations. The Lord promises that in D&C 84:88 and if I have hope, I'll believe and expect that promise to be fulfilled. 
Believe in, and Expect miracles. :)
I love you all!
Sister Callister 
PS also read Romans 8! Its seriously the BEST!
Here are my zone pictures before the transfer, ones with my baller comp, and a park we were at for weekly planning. 







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