I will make this one a brief email,
We got to go to the temple this week! It was amazing and much
needed.
Friday consisted of a very crazy busy day; we woke up early and
drove out to Orlando for a temple trip. I felt so much peace in the temple.
Then
we drove back home and did studies and had lunch and drove back out to Orlando
and had a temple tour with our friends. Also, we got stuck in Orlando so we
were home late, and up early. It was a very tiring day. But the temple is worth
it.
We had an amazing lesson with our friend Tynia (she's 14). When
we sat down she told us how she wanted to say the opening prayer and wrote something
out on the bus. It was the most heart felt sincere prayer and it truly warmed
my heart. She has been highlighting up the Book of Mormon and sharing with us
her favorite passages.
The rest of the week was very busy; we had lots of appointments.
I'll explain more next week as things continue to progress. But this is all I got
for you right now, sorry.
........................
Sometimes on a mission and in life there are times where it's
really hard to understand other people's actions and decisions. There seems to
be much "division" "contentions" etc. It's saddening and
frustrating and there are times I get on my knees in prayer at night and simply
tell Heavenly Father "I have no idea what to do."
Those times in my mission I have always felt His love and His
comfort despite circumstances around me that I'm not sure I know how to deal with.
But I know he has placed me in them for a reason.
I got a blessing this week (late in the transfer like always)
but again the blessing was just what I needed for guidance and direction.
There's something I've been pondering on a lot lately. It’s that when I share the gospel of Jesus
Christ, when I share our Heavenly Fathers plan, if the people we teach don't
listen (they don't seek, ask and knock). If ultimately all the hard work we
feel we have put in to teaching them does not result in a visible change in
them, then at least I should be changed. When Christ is preached, someone
should walk away different.
For so long I've thought that if someone didn't accept all we
teach them, then I must have not fully accomplished my part, that maybe I wasted
the Lords time. And I know that's unfair and not true.
In the blessing I received I was told that Heavenly Father did
of course want me out here for other people, but I need to remember He also
wanted me out here for me also.
It was exactly what I needed to hear.
Sister Sorensen 🌞
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