Brightly Beams our Father`s Mercy
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This
week has been full of ups and downs for me. Learning to rely on my
personal prayers to get me through.. Prayer.. it`s a marvelous thing.
Really it has become one of my escapes from the world. My time to speak
openly with my Heavenly Father and let Him help me through everything. I
see His hand in many things now.. and this week I really needed it:
Monday
was a great day! Hna Zarate and I were able to have some fun with our
zone and we made American breakfast together... pancakes, french toast,
scrambled eggs, and bacon.. mmm it made me a little excited for our
usual Christmas morning breakfast.. but I won`t get ahead of myself,
that`s still a long ways away. That night we visited Flor, a new
investigator.. but probably won`t progress much.. she is pregnant and
doesn`t have much time to listen.. but then after we visited Ana (less
active) and Eduardo wasn`t home.. so we just shared a little bit with
her.. they still don`t know if they are going to get married of
separate.. it`s been a long process.. Lastly we had a family home
evening with Rubi and her family who are progressing towards marriage
and baptism this next month!
Tuesday
we had our usual district meeting, but President Erickson and the
assistents came to see how we were doing. I always enjoy his visits
because we learn so much more from him about how to be better
missionaries. Then in the afternoon we had a work visit and I stayed in
my area with Hna Apaza, a sister from one of my old zones who recently
got transferred here to San Juan. We had some good lessons but nothing
really notable happened during the day.. except that Xiomara accepted a
baptismal date, she and Ronald still need to get married, but we are
helping them on that path as well.
Wednesday
we had a day full of lessons with recent converts and only one lesson
with an investigator.. it was a little bit interesting, but we enjoyed
the time we could spend with them. Thursday
we went to see Rubi again and we are really excited for her progress.
We had some other lessons as well and then finished the day. Friday
I had yet another work visit, this time I left our area and went with
Hna. Sullasi to her area to work. I really enjoyed it the day we got to
meet some great people and then the icing on the cake: In my last work
visit in her area I contacted a cute girl with light colored eyes.. and
to my surprise we showed up at her house and she is being taught the
lessons! Super cool to go back and see a little bit of the fruit of the
labor we did before.
Saturday
we had a great lesson with Rose.. the wife of a less active member and
she committed to go to church. (She came, with her two sons, YES!) We
also talked to Javier and his baptism is set for this Sunday. Sunday
was a great day and we had a lot of investigators in church. Rose and
her family, Rubi and her family, Xiomara and Ronald, Eduardo and Ana..
It really was special to have them all there and enjoy the Spirit and be
instructed.
I left a little time so that I could share something really special with you all... I want you all to read this quote:
¨Give
me all. I don`t want so much of your time, so much of your talents and
money, and so much of your works; I want You. All of you. I have not
come to torment or frustrate the natural man, but to kill it. No
half-measures will do. I don`t want to only prune a branch here and
another there; rather, I want the whole tree out. Hand it all over to
me, the whole outfit, all of your desires, all of your wants and wishes
and dreams. Turn them all over to me, give yourself to me and I will
make of you a new self in my image. Give me yourself and in exchange I
will give you myself. My will, shall become your will. My heart, shall
become your heart.¨ (Mere Christianity C.S. Lewis pg. 167)
This
is part of a talk called the Fourth Missionary.. a little bit later the
author, Lawrence E. Corbridge, says ¨He will create of you a
masterpiece. You will create of you only a smudge. You will create an
ordinary man. he will create a God.¨
Now we think about this all together.. really God
can create a masterpiece of us if we only give him our will. That is
really the only thing we can give Him. The things of this world are only
temporary.. but when we give God our will and our desires He can make
us into a person who not only is a person but that is just like Him, a
God. What better dream could anyone have. So let us give our will to
God.. do what He would have us do, be who He would have us be, say what
He would have us say... and before we know it, we will be made into
someone so much better than we could have imagined. Sometimes we get
lost in our own desires and our own dreams and we forget God`s plan for
us. Let us hand it all over.. let us put ourselves away.. I know without
a doubt that He can change us.. He can mold us. I know because I have
been able to see a change in me.. in my desires, in my thoughts, in
myself.
I love you all so much.. I hope you will all allow
God to work within you, be clay in his hands and he will mold you into a
masterpiece. Have a wonderful week!
Hermana Imbler
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