I can't even believe that it's already been a year! Time flies.
Spiritual thought: We had a number of exchanges in the "great white north" this week, and weren't in our area from Monday until Friday night. Upon arriving home, we had a little discussion with the APs about not being scared to admit weaknesses. ha ha. Definitely something I still struggle with. They suggested that we read Ether 12 that night and discuss what we learned the next day with them. In doing so I learned some really interesting things. 1) if we're seeing our weaknesses, that's a sign that we're coming unto Christ! He says "and if men will come unto me, I will show unto them their weakness." So, if you're feeling exposed to your weaknesses, it's a good thing. 2) In one of the verses, Christ says to Moroni something like "because you've seen your weaknesses, you will sit down in the place which I have prepared for you." And I realized that we HAVE to consistently acknowledge, the key is that we can't be immobilized by them. It's this beautiful, painful process of letting Him show us where we REALLY need to improve, and then using His grace to get there. Anyway, that helped me a lot this week :) Step by step we're getting there!
Missionary moment: Listening to the Spirit.
At the beginning of my mission, I thought I knew what it meant to listen to the Spirit, but then quickly realized that I had no idea. The things I had experienced beforehand were not even close to sufficient to really "rely on the spirit." It's one thing to feel like I shouldn't do something, but it's another to recognize complex promptings and act on them. It's been a consistent progress, but looking back I realized how much it's changed. A quick experience to illustrate - last night we had an hour left to work, and we didn't feel peaceful about our plans. It just felt like something was off. There was a group of apartments that kept coming into my hear, for no real reason. We had driven by them a few different times, but we didn't have any referrals or members or anything there. The image just kept coming to my hear, so we I finally voiced that and we went. After knocking a door that nobody answered, and then talking to a very uninterested woman who was smoking outside of her door, a woman rushed out of her house with her two kids. I stopped her and asked if we could give her a card, and she asked who we were and where we were from and when I told her she said "oh that big beautiful church over on Jackson with the palm trees? I went there a couple of times with my cousin and I really liked it!" She was running out, but we have an appointment to go back today. After she left, both my companion and I got this biggest sense of affirmation that that was what we had needed to do and that we could leave. It was a very humbling moment, to see how God helps us to become more receptive to be able to become better instruments in His hands.
Well, that's it for today! Have a wonderful week
Hermana Reynolds
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