So this week was a blur!
Since
being out in the field, I've really been struggling with needing to
love contacting. So one morning, I just prayed with all my heart that I
would develop a love for talking to strangers on the street. That day, I
all of a sudden loved it? The weather was beautiful, the people were
still as interesting as ever, but because Heavenly Father answers
prayers, He blessed me to see the beauty in talking to strangers about
the blessing of the restored gospel on the earth.
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| Cake pops from companion's Easter package! |
So
we usually contact at Western University, since there are so many
potential YSAers, and before we left campus, we were walking in the
basement of a random building and we just happened to run into a guy
that we had taught but haven't seen in a while. Moral: coincidences are
not real and God does put people in our paths for a reason.
This
past week we had 3 children of God preparing for baptism! It was
wonderful. They have all come to church and were reading and praying and
progressing along the path that leads back to our Heavenly Father. One
of them just mission dumped us so Sister Balderson and I were pretty
heartbroken, BUT we have to focus on preparing the elect!
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| Just before we head out! |
This
week we also got to help serve at a wedding at the stake center! So
that was fun helping serve(/eat) food and watch people be in love and
what not! Shoutout to my Kell Belle for being my one and only when it
comes to having the same taste when it comes to weddings...and literally
everything else.
This
Sunday was exhausting. We got a lot of less-actives and our two
investigators at church, so that was a blessing and a half, but I will
say this: the most frustrating part of a mission is people's agency. You
can share and teach and testify and invite until you are blue in the
face, but it always comes down to those you are helping and whether or
not they want to act and receive God's blessings for themselves. It
really is a learning process to be humble enough to work with so many
different types of people. I have really come to understand that true,
pure charity isn't simply loving people, but it is loving people that
are hard to love without restraint--seeing them through God's eyes and
loving them regardless of the choices they make and the people
they currently are. Life is all about progressing and continually moving
forward on the path that leads back to our Heavenly Father.
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Everyone
go read "Our Search for Happiness"! Like Elder Ballard said, either
Joseph Smith saw what he saw or he didn't. Either God has a plan of
eternal happiness or He doesn't. Either the Book of Mormon is the word
of God or it isn't. But I know more than I ever have before that our
Heavenly Father is guiding and hastening His work on the earth right
now. He loves us and that is why He has designed a perfect plan for us.
We are so blessed to have the gospel in our lives!
I love y'all so much! Serve a stranger this week!
xoxo
