I am so grateful that I am able to be here on the mission. This week we found a less active family and we are going to baptize their nine year old boy to be baptized this Sunday! It is super great to be able to help a family come back to church. We are also helping the dad to receive the priesthood! Also we have a family of three who agreed to be baptized. She is working as a firewoman right now because her husband died about 6 months ago so she has a hard time sometimes but she loves hearing about the plan of salvation and we also had a family of 4 agree to be baptized this week!
Anyway one thing I have learned is the trials that we have change who we are. I feel like this week I have come to understand more what my purpose is as a missionary and why I am really here. This week there was a lady we have been visiting who said that she didn't want to listen to us because of all the things she had read on the internet. We responded to all her doubts but her heart had become too hard and she wouldn't listen. Afterwards I felt the biggest pain I have ever felt having someone choose not to listen to our message because I realized for probably the first time the depth of how important the gospel of Jesus Christ is in each of our lives. I realized I am not sorry for the trials that we have in our life because every one of them is preparing us to return to live with our Heavenly Father. This week me and my companion sang in church "I Need Thee Every Hour" and I could feel so strongly how much I needed my Savior in everything that I do.
Oh also one morning this week I decided to make pancakes and it just made me laugh because one of thepancakes looked like the tree of life. Everything in this earth is to give us joy, even our trials, because we appreciate the little things a lot more :)
Have a great week!
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