3 day!

first off, the shift key on this keyboard is not functioning very well, except for exclamation points. so don't judge any lack of proper capitalization in this email. 

we had "3 day" this week! it's a 3 day training (go figure) for all the leadership - zone leaders, district leaders, sister training leaders, and we receive trainings from president maluenda and his wife and the zone leaders and stls and aps all give trainings, too. it was very inspiring and i learned mucho.

here are a couple of the golden nuggets that i gained:

the importance of the book of mormon: president maluenda had us read from the first page before the intro, where it's the introduction taken from the end of the plates. in it it says that the book of mormon was writted by god through revelation and is for the convincing of everyone that jesus is the christ. he emphasized that we have to have a rock-solid testimony of the book of mormon, because that's what's going to keep us firm. he said that if we can learn to use the book of mormon for the basis of all our teaching, especially with our family, then it will be so much more powerful. he talked a lot about the importance of basing our families in the teachings of the book of mormon. he said "you will learn who you are from reading the book of mormon"

our divine identity: president maluenda shared alma 13, where it talks about the melchizedek priesthood, and read verse 3 where it says what qualified the holders of the melchizedek priesthood for that privilege. he said that the percentage of people who hold it is somewhere around 1.5 out of every 7,000 people. he also said that the women who have access to it are part of those people who in the pre-earth life had "exercised faith and had exceedingly good works" and because of that, all of us are here, holding or with access to the priesthood, and that's one of the biggest privileges ever. it's pretty astounding! i don't think any of us really understand who exactly we are. but that makes a big difference in my teaching, because I've been able to be with people and think "what if they were selected to have the priesthood and they just have to be taught?" and i'm able to be a little more diligent in my efforts to help them have the gospel.

well, i love you all!

until next week

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Hermana Reynolds