Today was a beautiful Shabbat. I woke up and went to choir this morning, sang before Sacrament, went to English Gospel Doctrine and then we had all combined for third hour since it's the fifth Sabbath of the month. I loved everything we learned and we were really encouraged to go to the temple, which I can't wait to do as soon as I get home.
After Church I went with a group over to the Garden of Gethsemane. It was really cool, we had all read different talks by General Authorities about the Atonement and talked about them and shared our testimonies. They call it the Living Prophets Society. It was the first time I've gone, but I want to go to more meetings because it was a really neat experience to talk about that while we were there in the Garden.
Later we had a fireside by Sister Qumsiyeh, our relief society president. She is from a town near Bethlehem and talked about how she was able to learn charity during her life growing up with the Palestinian/Israeli conflict, and how she was able to come to love the soldiers that were such a source of pain to her. It really inspired me to be a better person and be more full of charity, especially since I have so much less of a reason not to feel charity for all of the people around me.
Tonight we are doing another roommate sleepover with mattresses on the floor, a movie and some popcorn. I am so excited!
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