That phrase is just always stuck in my head, idk. Mostly every time we teach the plan of salvation. I LEAVE MONDAY WHOO Where do I begin. Not sure. The start of the week was hard, somethings happened. Particularly an elder who said some, very uncalled for not so nice things to me. And it kind of tore me up. But I will say, because I don't have my family and friends around. It really showed me that the only and the ONE person I should always turn to is the lord. I kept asking him to make me feel my worth again, But he basically told me I knew my worth, and to ask for something else. So I asked to have love of this elder, to not be so angry. And the lord works in mysterious ways. All is well. I realized we have to know our own worth. We have to know that god knows it. And ask for him to change our hearts before we ask him to change others hearts. And I do that often, I ask him to change my heart.
The spirit is my constant companion, I trust him, I rely on him. And I wonder how much I ignored before I was home? There is always someone there. It is strange how in that way I never feel lonely. Via Sikhema (google it) idk how to spell it, came and spoke to us. It was so refreshing because he just told stories about how we impact others lives. He also told everyone to put their notes away and just listen. You could really see the confusion in the missionaries eyes.Their not use to that. Elder Robbins of the seventy came and spoke to us on Tuesday and talked about developing Christ- like attributes. He was also trying to prepare us for... marriage? haha no just basically learning to love people even when it is hard to do. And asked what kind of person we want to be in 18-24 months. So I have thought about that a lot. Both of our investigators like to talk a lot. One of them is going pretty hard on us bringing us some "modern" issues of the church. But we keep telling her to rely on faith. She mentioned that she felt like god was telling her to just keep learning and she will understand because she works on logic. So I asked her, "If you prayed and the answer that god gave you was "trust me".. could you do that?" And that really got her thinking. So she is trying to work on faith. The Call center is still amazing as ever. The guy I told you about, who I talked to the first day in there, Is now being taught by the missionaries. He is the only one so far in all our all district whom the missionaries have contacted who is being taught. But it takes time. I am always surprised on how many people are up for the missionaries visiting them. I also sent the missionaries to one other man in L.A. who is pretty lost and asked for the bible for direction so I said HEY take a book of Mormon too. ;) Yesterday I talked to this sweet old texan lady forever ( I was super late to class) her husband passed away so I could tell she was pretty lonely. And the missionaries are going to visit her too, But I also told her I would check up on her myself. I'm pretty sad to leave my district, we have grown close. The other day, the other Orlando missionaries and I just laughed for so long about who knows what. Elder Merchen was on his flight to Utah from Arizona and someone asked him where he would be serving and he said "Orlando" and he guy goes "Oh we just flew over Florida" hahahah.. what So we were drawing maps on how that would even be possible. Also Elder Danes is doing a whole no sugar thing is whole mission, and I promised I would do that. He won't let me have the cereral. He is keeping me in check. I've been making the elders in my district drawings of their fav scriptures before we go. ANYWAY this is my last P day in the MTC. Next time you hear from me I will be in sunny Florida. Love you all the Church is true when in doubt read Alma 32 haha I'm funny
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