Why Faith is Acting

Well, my dearly beloved folks, I don't have that much time to email this week.

Run down of our week...

We visited two hospitals and a rest home to find some service opportunities, we have an appointment with the rest home this week to see what we could offer and do. I'm excited for that!!
We had two appointments with investigators, which actually turned out really well. We dropped by on a less active man and his non-member family, and that was fun. Next step is getting them to Church! We had some really good member appointment, we visited a refugee camp and we witnessed a car accident.

 

Now on to the good stuff/my favorite part...

 

THE GOSPEL

 

This week was hard. Yup. I'll be honest with you. Brain squishing, gut wrenching, disappointment heavy hard. You know that scripture "lose your life and you shall find it?" well...this week was the "I lost it" part of that scripture. Have you ever had those days, or weeks, or months? That's ok. It's part of the condition of mortality. I am IN LOVE with mortality and the difficulty of the journey. Now before you think I'm crazy, just know that I'm a missionary, and I'm supposed be this way. Ha

No really. There is a reason for these seasons of pain. And they too shall pass.

 

I love this quote from The Fourth Missionary

 

 

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To believe that weaknesses and deficiencies in your character are unchangeable is to reject the central truth of the plan of salvation. You are not cast in stone. You not only can change but you do change all of the time. You are a dynamic, changing, evolving being. You are always changing. You never stay the same. You cannot stand still.
You are right now the sum total of what you have thought, said, seen, heard and done. What you think, say, do, hear and see, cause you to change; to change for good or evil; to become either stronger or weaker...
 Redemptive change happens by the power of the Holy Ghost. But it happens only if and when your heart is right. It happens only if you do not fight against God. It happens only if you unconditionally surrender your will to the Lord.
"

This is why I love mortality. This is why I am grateful for the hard parts. We get to grow, we get to see, we get to become. We get to be happy. How lucky are we?

Also, I had a breakup the other day.

On my mission.

I've broken up with baptism.

Yup

Actually, I've broken up with the expectations that follow missionaries around like a smelly dog, or stick to the bottoms of our spiritual and emotional shoes like abc gum.

To have faith is to act as though what you are doing and what you have done is enough. I don't mean the cocky enough, I mean, we put all we've got into trying, and we know that through Christ's grace, it will do the job.

We will always be enough, as long as we act. We have not failed until we have stopped trying. And with God, there is no try. There is only fulfillment.

I loved what Sister Megli said this week. Like Peter stepping out onto the waves to walk to Christ, we need to take that step of faith and get out of the blasted boat. If you feel lost, that's ok. I do too. But hey, at least we are riding the waves.

Ha

Sorry.

 

I love you all!

 

Sister Roderer