Last week one of the Hermana´s from Hermana Grant´s group went home and we were so sad! It mad me sad to think Hermana Grant is leaving soon, I´m probably gonna be a wreck, she is amazing!
But yeah, we have had lots of opportunities to testify of the book of Mormon. It´s been great! Just like, by going and visiting people and their friends or family members are there, so that´s been really fun!
Also, a girl in our ward got her mission call this week! We went over and watched her open her call, and ah, it was amazing! She got called to Manchester, England! I was just in tears, and thinking back on July 12 of last year, when I got my call to another country, that speaks another language, and how scary and exciting that was and that feeling of knowing your life will never be the same again. I can´t believe that was over a year ago and here I am now! It´s really hard a lot of times, but I feel so grateful to my Heavenly Father for this sacred opportunity. That night that she opened her call she came with us to our citas and we had a good time!
Also this week we went out with one of the members to get churros, it was so fun! Haha, and we also went to this fireside like thing with the stake president, and we didnt really know the theme, then we got there and it was about strengthening our families and marriages! Hahaha it was so funny and I took tons of notes and learned a lot. I´m gonna be a rocking wife that´s all I´m saying. Haha just kidding. But it was fun!
It was also so cool, saturday night we had a cita with someone, but we didnt need to be there for like a half an hour, so we started walking around, looking for someone to talk to, and we saw this older man and started talking to him and he said he goes on a walk for a couple hours every night, so we started walking with him, and talked to him about his beliefs, and al final he asked us about our church´s beliefs. We stood with him, overlooking gorgeous Benidorm for a long time, and basically told him everything about the restoration and lots about the plan of salvation and it was just such a surreal moment. I really felt every word I was saying, and it just hit me as I looked out over the sunset and looked at Hna Grant as she was testifying of this true gospel, and the missionary tags we are wearing, I just was like, wow, there are lots of hard times but these moments make it worth it. It was really cool.
And yesterday in church I got to translate for the first time! So that was cool! I was attempting to translate for a woman from England. It was fun and she was so nice! We talked about Job yesterday, and about Abraham during relief society. It was a lesson I really needed to review. I felt the spirit so strongly as we were talking about how these two great men were tried and they reacted with such great faith. They passed through all these trials and learned and were blessed, of course we always need to trust in the Lord, that´s easier said than done. I was just thinking about how trials are so necessary to our growth, and how sometimes I question why this work is sometimes so rough, but I was to develop that faith that Abraham and Job had. I want to learn to put God first, above everything and everyone. I am learning to do His will, regardless of the fear and the tiredness and distractions. I will be learning this all my life, but I truly am grateful for this experience to learn. Really I can see that the only way to achieve true happiness is to put ourselves in His hands. I know the Lord knows I can do it, He knew that Job could do it and that Abraham was willing to sacrifice his son, but they actually needed to pass through those things for themselves, so that THEY could know that they could do it. The Lord knows how capable we are, and now we have the chance to develop that, to continually learn in this life, and to trust in Him, so WE can learn how capable we are, and how strong we are if we put our strength in His. I have such a strong testimony of this gospel, I know with everything in me that it is true and I will never deny it.
I know that my Redeemer lives!
Love, Hermana Miller
1 Nephi 19:8-9
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