Today Is a Gift That Is Why It Is Called the Present
Something that my mission has taught me is that in every day there is
something great that happens. It might be a super little thing or
something big in every day there is a miracle to be grateful for. Also
that Heavenly Father has His timing and He really does know what is best
for us and what we need.
I got reminded of that a
lot this week. It also stood out to me this week that Heavenly Father
always answers our prayers. A few different times this week there was
something we prayed for that happened.
The first experience
was when we were planning for our day we prayed for an unplanned service
opportunity and that same morning we got a text from someone seeing if
we could come help them.
The second experience was when we
decided to walk to the Benefields. It was super far and I was not sure
we were going to be able to make it on time. At least not in the two
hour slot we allotted. At one point we ran into a member who offered us
a ride; we said we were good because we still thought we would be able
to make it. A few minutes after we ran into her Sister Lokotui
remembered how far it was, she had forgotten about part of the walk. She
said a little prayer that we would run into someone who would be able to
give us a ride. Not even two minutes later a member pulled over and
offered us a ride. We had dinner with the member that night and we
shared that experience with him. He said that it was definitely Heavenly
Father's timing. He was not even so supposed to be over there, but
someone had cancelled so he decided to go to Fruita to do something else
and on his way he ran into us.
The third is that one day I
had not gotten much sleep the night before and I was super tired. I
prayed that I would have enough energy to be able to get through the
day. I think that I had the most energy that I had in a while.
Fourth,
Sister Lokotui's eye started bothering her in church. After Church it
just kept getting worse. Eventually it got to the point were she could
not open it. We said a prayer that we would be able to figure out what
to do. We remembered that there was a member near by. We decided to stop
over there and see if we could try rinsing out her eye. We tried that
and it didn't really work. Then the member realized that a member of
the ward was an eye doctor. We called him and he was able to do an eye
exam and now she gets to wear some super nice looking glasses.
This
week we were also able to start teaching Steve. We have been able to
teach him three times now. His wife was there for the last lesson and
that was a miracle. She is super against missionaries. He is doing
great and loves the gospel.
We helped the Knowles family take apart a car and that was super exciting. We tried to
take a picture in it and we dropped the keys behind the seat so we had
to rip off the back seat to get them out.
Breakfast was great it was exciting to
see Grandma. We went out to ihop and both sister Lokotui and I have
never been there so that was fun. (I didn't mean to strike a pose I pulled a face because I almost dropped
my leftovers on the floor then caught them and that is when the
picture was taken. I was supposed to be smiling.)
I hope you all have a great week.
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| Aunt Cathy, (Great) Grandma Sharp, Ana, Sister Lokotui (Hooray! They finally got to meet up!) |
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| Ana, her companion, and Sister Holt (texted from Sister Holt) |
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| (from Sister Holt) |
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| (from Sister Holt) |
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| (texted from Sister Folga) |
