Hows hot August? :) Its freezing here! READY for school?! I
cant believe Emma will be a senior. :) MAX IS leaving the mtc? Wow I cant believe it is already time for him to go out in the field! Time is flying!
Well well well (haha my comp always says this in her
cute latina accent and she just makes me laugh every time:))" this week
was a week of trying new things." :) We prayed last Sunday night and
specifically asked where we could find people whose hearts were ready and open and could benefit from our message. And we both felt so
strong that we needed to visit the menos activos (less actives).
Bueno. So we made this our goal. We tried to visit alllllllllllll
the menos activos in Juncal. I feel like Juncal is Springville, Provo
and 2 Orems combined in one. People--- pioneer children who sang as they walked and walked and walked and walked have nothing on us. We walk soooo much. ME MATA.
Long
story short we found this menos activo named Miguel. Hes so great! I
dont know how long its been since hes come to church,, but its been quite a
while. When we walked in and saw him in the congregation I wanted to
cry. Theres an hermano in our ward that once told us.. seeing a menos
activo en la capilla is just like having a baptism. Ya know what we
feel? We feel like God wants us to FIRST help the less actives and then
he will lead us to find his children that are ready to be baptized.
Theres something I learned on the mission and that is this: THERE
IS NO PERFECT FORMULA to have baptisms. Im truly convinced. Ive spent my whole
mission doing the essentials we needed to do to have success, but I can
say that there is no predictable outcome to doing things a perfect way. This is GODS WORK. And I know that
God has every baptism planned. He sees the big picture. I just need to
trust in HIS PLAN for us. Because sometimes when I pray and ask for
things to happen the spirit will tell me something different. Sometimes
our will doesnt always match up with gods will. its so hard to explain..
Sometimes he tells my heart somthing total opposite of what I think or want to happen. But this is what has taught me about faith. I know that WHATEVER
happens, happens for a reason. Were gonna keep giving it our all and if
it be Gods will we will have baptsims. And then this is the really hard part that makes me cry a little Its really hard to say but I feel like I should say it. I want my family to know this. If we walk and talk and pray and fast and give and plead with God, and he doesnt lead us to any baptisms, my faith is the same. His love for us is the same. The sacrifice and love of Jesus Christ is the same. And I will seal my heart to his heart with equal love and gratitude if he gives us success or not. And honestly that does make me cry a little, because I know what I want. And Im learning to surrender my will to his.
Lately I have been discouraged. Alot of faith and trust has been put in me to open this new area and nothing is happening. I find myself wondering why I am not seeing Gods hand work miracles. But then I read
these scriptures this morning and I felt an answer to my prayers.
6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.
FAITH IS THE ANSWER TO EVERY UNANSWERED PRAYER MY PRECIOUS FRIENDS. Trust him. Trust him. Trust him. He is the one who reaches our reaching. In our Gesthemene he is our Savior and our dearest friend.
have a a good week yall.
HERMANA TERRY
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