React VS Respond💛 10/19/20

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Good morning everyone!

Happy Monday😊 It has been such an awesome week. Seriously so many miracles, service opportunities, and decently cooler weather what more could I ask for really?!
Sister Corn and I began volunteering last week and a therapeutic horse ranch called Saddles of Joy. It is SO cool! We are mostly feeding and cleaning stalls but it has been a blast to be around animals so often. We also helped a lady were teaching this week set up her Halloween decorations which led into putting on a music concert for her and her other mom friends with their kiddos! I played the ukulele and another Sister played the violin. It was such a blast. We also were able to do our regular service at the foodbank which is always fun. The National Guard serves there too so we interact with them quite a bit and a few of the guys started taking the lessons from the YSA missionaries! Miracles! 







Another super awesome opportunity we have is our Stake is piloting a new self reliance program called "Emotional Resilience". Our ward member is facilitating it and asked that we join to help out. Man this program is INCREDIBLE. What was so cool is that this weeks class lined exactly up with my studies. 
This week I have been studying God's doctrine. Not faith, repentance, baptism and stuff but His doctrine of love, kindness, and forgiveness. This is who God is and this is what His commandments encompass. But how often do we, when situations frustrate us or we get offended, are so quick to react rather that respond in a better way? This react vs respond principle genuinely intrigued me. When I say I 'reacted' to something it in a way seems I gave away my agency to the actions of something or someone. To choose to respond we are making that choice on what we do. If we constantly react then how can we expect to truly love, be kind, and forgive? This isn't a surface level principle there is truly so much to it, but the gift of agency is beautiful. When we use it properly and conscientiously, we develop the capacity to love, to forgive, to serve and that is all of what God's doctrine is about. Choose to respond! <- this is what I'm going to work on this week!😊 
 Y'all are the best!❤
Sister Callister

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