hi! every single week becomes my favorite week of my mission because God is so good! if i had to pick i definitely think this week would at least be in the top 3 !! time is literally zooming. ten days! crazy! this week i spent the whole of tuesday in farnborough with sister Barben! she is so sweet & i'm stoked to see her again when she gets home ♡ Wednesday was amazing. We had are departing temple trip with the Thompsons. i love to be in the Temple always but Wednesday was an experience i had never had before. I was able to do proxy family sealing & wow. What a beautiful gift God gives us of eternal families! And i get to see mine in 10 days ahhh! but yeah a lot of realizations and i've never known more confidently that this is the Lords church! I've never felt closer to my Savior and the spirit than i have felt when in the holy temple. thursday we spent most the day with our district! and then we went to Joy & Victor's for a lesson and we invit...
If I have learned anything after 22 years of my earthly experience it is the fact that God never gives up on us, even when we may give up on him. Growing up I knew that I never wanted to go on a mission. For most of my youth I felt as the “lost sheep” but I didn’t necessarily want to be found. After a lot of life reflecting and soul searching I desperately wanted God to find me. I was broken and I knew that He was the only one who could make me whole. I wanted my own testimony of a personal Savior I could call my own. So I started to pray, read the Book of Mormon and record any thoughts I had. The circumstances in my life might not have changed but my heart did. “A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.” Ezekiel 36:26 After this experience I felt so strongly that God needed me to serve a mission. Still hesitant but faithful, I went. And I got to spend 19 ...
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