Well
this week was full of great things. Bonnie L Oscarson came and gave an
amazing devotional, all about how the lord has prepared a mission
experience JUST for you. I loved this. I can see that even now with my
companions, my district, and my zone. There is something I need to learn
from each one of them. There is a reason I have the teachers that I
have, and the investigators that I do. The Lord knows ME. He knows
everyone perfectly. I am still working on humbling myself completely to
realize it. I have realized though that I cannot even begin to
comprehend the amount of love that God has for his children. Anyways,
speaking of investigators, this week was super special. We got to
continue to teach Wendi, and yesterday we invited her to follow Christs
example and be baptized. She said YES! All week I decided to quit
stressing about the language. That is not the reason that I am here. I
am here to teach and bring others unto Christ, to be an instrument in
the lords hand. So this entire week, each lesson I would prepare and
study so hard, and then as I was going to teach the lesson, would just
close my notebook and let the spirit do the rest. I have grown such a
testimony of faith. I can do all things because of and through Christ.
Even having to explain "committing adultery" in my second week of
espanol (: wow what an experience.
I have been
reading a talk called "The Fourth Misisonary" that this girl in my room
gave me. I just want to share a few quotes from it that have really
resonated with me:
"Not only can you change but you do it all
the time. Some people do not believe this. People excuse their
failures and their weaknesses by saying "thats just the way I am" or "i
am not a morning person" or "I am just shy". To believe that weaknesses
and deficiencies in your character are unchangagle is to reject the
central truth to the plan of salvation. The central purpose and blessing
of life is CHANGE. It is to be changed, to become more like Christ.
It is to incorporate into your character, the qualities of HIS
character. It is to move from one degree of intelligence and capacity,
to the next, and from there to the next, until you see god face to face
and know him as he knows you. Every challenge, heartache, trial,
unfairness, sadness, and dissapointment is just an opportunity, and
opportunity to respond. To respond to be more like Christ".
Well
that is about it for this week.(: Headed out to play some four square,
which is legit the biggest deal here it is mind blowing. We were playing
yesterday, and the four square court outside is literally in the
parking lot in the front of the temple, and this kid in my district who
is from Carolina was literally like "oh my word this is the most mormon
thing I have ever seen" haha i was dying!
A
mission is hard. boy is it. but I am so happy with this decision that I
have made. "Waste and wear out your life in bringing to light all the
hidden things of darkness." This is kind of the motto I tell myself
every morning as my alarm goes off. My branch president told me
something this week that made me smile. "They will need to send an
ambulence to pick you up from the airport when you are done. You SHOULD
be worn out, beyond exhausted." I have never been so happily exhausted
in my life. Love and pray for you all. Have a great week!
Hermana Dimond
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