Lauren would like to share with friends and family some of her experiences and her testimony of Jesus Christ as she serves in the Washington Everett Mission for the Church of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints.
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SISTER KIMBALL WILL BE SAYING GOOD BYE TO THIS BEAUTIFUL PART OF OUR COUNTRY ON MONDAY DECEMBER 12,2011. Thank you all...
Saturday, August 7, 2010
Continued-letter dated July 23,2010
" The whole time I was pleading for help to know what to do...the thought kept coming to me that she should be baptized. I knew the thought was not from me because my will was to wait. The Lord answered our cries and we both now felt that she should be baptized. The Lord's will is for her to be baptized... Those investigators don't need a perfect knowledge or a complete testimony to be baptized, it just needs to be right for them and the Lord's will. It is also about their desire to repent and be baptized and upon their belief that this Church is true. It was a very humbling experiance. It was the first time I truly felt as explained in Alma 26:12-13 and Helaman 12:17. God really does hear and answer our prayers, not right away but after the trial of our faith. When we truly have real intent to do the Lord's will. Because it was my will at first and when I really submitted my will to the Lord's will, He answered me...This work is hard and very demanding, but the Lord blesses us each and everyday. He gives us peace and comfort and guidance and strength. As explained in Alma 26:12 in the Book of Mormon, I am weak but with the Lord I am strong. " I boast not in myself but of my God!" It took me all day to realize what the Lord truly wanted to happen. My companion wanted me to find out on my own. She wanted the decision to be a companionship decision. She is awesome. I love Sister Dewitt. We love each other as sisters. She was telling me that she looks up to me and I'm a great missionary and that she wanted me to know that I have what it takes. I just sat crying and thinking that I'm not any of those things.The scripture that came into my head,"I am nothing, I am weak..I am as the dust of the earth." The things I do and who I am is not because of me. I am nothing as Ammon says, but I give all the good things I am and do to my God. I am not a great missionary of myself. It is because of our Savior and Redeemer that I am who I am. I am a disciple of Jesus Christ,the Son of God. (3Nephi5:13) And I am happy and I rejoice because of Him. Read President Uchtdorfs talk."Have We Not Reason to Rejoice"ensign Nov. 07 It's awesome and I have been studying that talk. That's my spiritual experiance of the week. A funny experiance-I totally tripped in the middle of the street. My ankles are so weak right now that I just randomly trip. One second I'm just walking and the next I'm on the ground. We just laugh and laugh! We're having fun!
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