1/24/2022 Working through discouragment

Hello All ❤ 

Miss you more than ever! This week was hard for me. Although it was full of laughter and a lot of good times, it was a tough one emotionally. Every missionary says that the mission is hard but it is hard in away I never could've anticipated. I've spent a lot of my time in prayer, crying to Heavenly Father for comfort and guidance and all the things. Asking to know how to help my friends that I am teaching. My heart aches for them to enjoy the blessing that come from living the Gospel and knowing their Savior. 

I think it's safe to say that everyone knows I have a very strong testimony of God's timing. But this week a question has been brought to my attention. Do I trust God's timing always? Or just when things are going well...? 

It's so easy for me to trust God's timing when I see the blessings from it. Am I willing to trust His timing when I am facing hardship? Are you???

On Tuesday night we had a man named Eric Richards join our mission call and he talked to us a lot about forgiveness. There was just a few things that stood out to me that I felt someone reading my emails might need right now. 
1. "If you are going to be happy in this life, you need to have thick skin and a gentle heart."
2."If you are tied to the rope called 'yesterday' you can only go so far today."
3."When you are tempted to stay angry, to not forgive, remember that Jesus Christ died for the people that have wronged you."

From this I was reminded of a really powerful little saying... Let go and let God. Let go of the anger, let go of the guilt, the bitterness, let it all go and let God heal you. 

We also had interviews this week! I can not say it enough I love President and Sister Thompson ❤ They are so so busy but still show me so much love and help me to keep going! We're gonna be homies forever 🥰 The spirit was so strong during my interview with President, we were talking and all the sudden I started to tear up, I explained that I just felt the Spirit strongly and he started to choke up and just said "I do too." It was a really special moment because we were talking about some of the history of the Church and I just know God was testifying through President that he loves me. On another note, he also told me he wants to have me train next transfer which I was excited about but then he talked about the chances of me staying in Hayes so Sister Jones could go be STL somewhere or the chances of me whitewashing and area while training... so that's absolutely terrifying. 

On of the main reasons I have been so discouraged this week is because the man we met from Zimbabwe (Takura) who says he is doing BYU pathways and is a member just not baptized hasn't been responding to us. I know without a doubt in my mind that God needed us to meet that day and I thought that it was to get Takura baptized but he still has his agency and my plan is rarely God's plan. I just expected things to be easy with Takura so I felt really discouraged after getting my hopes up and disconnected myself from the work. I didn't want to meet anymore people because they all have their agency and that really sucks sometimes lol.

I ended up asking my district leader Elder Cleary for a priesthood blessing and I am just so grateful for all the people I am surrounded by. I don't know why God had blessed me with the oppurtunity to know these people but I am forever grateful! I'm also so grateful for Joseph Smith, for his faithfulness and willingness to be the instrument in God's hands in good times and in bad times. To restore the Church and to Restore the priesthood authority so that I could recieve the blessing of comfort that I recieved. ❤

Yesteday we had the oppurtunity to hear from President Nelson, his wife, Elder Bednar, and his wife in a special Europe Area broadcast. It was so good! They talked specifically to members in Europe and it was super cool! And super needed 🥰
 
I know that God's timing is perfect. I know that He will not make us face hardship any longer than necessary for each of us to grow.
Today we had district pday. And went to Tower Bridge 🤩 needless to say, I LOVE London! So so beautiful! I don't ever wanna leave this place 🥲❤
Anyways that's my week for you! Sorry for this long email but love youuuu 💜

Love,
Sis Fox 🌻

Pics: 
Good quotes ❤
Hot Choc break selfie (daily bc it's freezing in the UK!) 
District pday! I love these people so much!



















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