Hey Everybody!
As a follow up from last week, I was able to see Hna. Kang Monday evening. In our mission, our mission presidency hosts a district (a group of missionaries ranging in size from 3-5 companionships) for a family home evening. This past Monday my district and I had been scheduled to have family home evening with the Jaggis; this was scheduled about 3 months ago. Our Heavenly Father, in His perfect love for us, made the situation as such that my district and I, the closest missionaries to Hna. Kang, could have that closure. That Monday was her last day here before going home and it was just perfect. I know that God had His hand in this whole situation and that He was watching over all of us even while allowing us our agency.
I definitely feel more at peace having seen her and having hugged her goodbye; I needed that to be able to fully heal. I'm still in the healing process, but this past week went better than the last one. I'm also learning (re-learning) to take things 5 minutes at a time - my theme song has been "How Firm a Foundation" and "5 Minutes" by Superchick - and allow myself to feel my feelings. One thing I am still working on is recognizing that I am feeling sad, or extremely tired, or irritated and knowing that it's okay to feel those things. I want to get back to work and be my normal self - peppy, energized, excited! - but I also need time to heal.
Something my zone has been asked to study is a talk/discussion about the gifts of the Spirit. One of them, that I never really paid attention to, is the gift to be healed. I had always understood it to mean physically, that we have the faith to be made whole in our bodies. But that is only half of it. We need to have the faith to be made whole spiritually, emotionally, and mentally as well as physically. This gift stems from another gift, which is to know that Jesus is the Christ, our Savior and Redeemer; if we have faith in Him, we know that His Atonement can cover any wound and can heal us. I have definitely gained a deeper appreciation for the healing that the Atonement can bring for I have had to wholly depend on Him this week to function.
That was one of the miracles I saw this week. The other is that we are starting to find people to teach! A member and his non-member wife have come to church the last two weeks and this woman is someone that our ward mission leader has referred to us. She has been taught by missionaries before but has never been baptized. We are going to start teaching them this week!
We also have another family who, despite multiple obstacles in their path, are working towards baptism. They are super sweet and have had a lot of hard times but they are trying to find God and His true church.
And then, the most miraculous of all for me, is the Hernandez family! We met them this past Saturday and had a great lesson with them. We shared the Restoration (please ask a local missionary what that entitles) in 4 minutes and then invited them to be baptized. They said yes! And then we asked for them for the 9th of July and they said yes! They have truly been prepared by the Lord and we are so excited to go and teach them tonight.
The power of prayers is real and the more specific we are the more specific answers we receive. We pray for all of our investigators so that they have all the strength possible to make such important changes in their lives; we pray to find people to teach; we pray for our leaders, our family and friends; we pray constantly whether out loud or privately. Never have I been closer to the Lord in my life and it's because I am reaching out to Him and He's reaching out to me.
I love you all and I hope that you're seeing the miracles in your life. Life is good, even though we have hard times for those times help refine us and make us better. I love you all. Be good and remember who you are!
Love,
Hermana Lindh
As a follow up from last week, I was able to see Hna. Kang Monday evening. In our mission, our mission presidency hosts a district (a group of missionaries ranging in size from 3-5 companionships) for a family home evening. This past Monday my district and I had been scheduled to have family home evening with the Jaggis; this was scheduled about 3 months ago. Our Heavenly Father, in His perfect love for us, made the situation as such that my district and I, the closest missionaries to Hna. Kang, could have that closure. That Monday was her last day here before going home and it was just perfect. I know that God had His hand in this whole situation and that He was watching over all of us even while allowing us our agency.
I definitely feel more at peace having seen her and having hugged her goodbye; I needed that to be able to fully heal. I'm still in the healing process, but this past week went better than the last one. I'm also learning (re-learning) to take things 5 minutes at a time - my theme song has been "How Firm a Foundation" and "5 Minutes" by Superchick - and allow myself to feel my feelings. One thing I am still working on is recognizing that I am feeling sad, or extremely tired, or irritated and knowing that it's okay to feel those things. I want to get back to work and be my normal self - peppy, energized, excited! - but I also need time to heal.
Something my zone has been asked to study is a talk/discussion about the gifts of the Spirit. One of them, that I never really paid attention to, is the gift to be healed. I had always understood it to mean physically, that we have the faith to be made whole in our bodies. But that is only half of it. We need to have the faith to be made whole spiritually, emotionally, and mentally as well as physically. This gift stems from another gift, which is to know that Jesus is the Christ, our Savior and Redeemer; if we have faith in Him, we know that His Atonement can cover any wound and can heal us. I have definitely gained a deeper appreciation for the healing that the Atonement can bring for I have had to wholly depend on Him this week to function.
That was one of the miracles I saw this week. The other is that we are starting to find people to teach! A member and his non-member wife have come to church the last two weeks and this woman is someone that our ward mission leader has referred to us. She has been taught by missionaries before but has never been baptized. We are going to start teaching them this week!
We also have another family who, despite multiple obstacles in their path, are working towards baptism. They are super sweet and have had a lot of hard times but they are trying to find God and His true church.
And then, the most miraculous of all for me, is the Hernandez family! We met them this past Saturday and had a great lesson with them. We shared the Restoration (please ask a local missionary what that entitles) in 4 minutes and then invited them to be baptized. They said yes! And then we asked for them for the 9th of July and they said yes! They have truly been prepared by the Lord and we are so excited to go and teach them tonight.
The power of prayers is real and the more specific we are the more specific answers we receive. We pray for all of our investigators so that they have all the strength possible to make such important changes in their lives; we pray to find people to teach; we pray for our leaders, our family and friends; we pray constantly whether out loud or privately. Never have I been closer to the Lord in my life and it's because I am reaching out to Him and He's reaching out to me.
I love you all and I hope that you're seeing the miracles in your life. Life is good, even though we have hard times for those times help refine us and make us better. I love you all. Be good and remember who you are!
Love,
Hermana Lindh
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| So, to make today awesome, we went indoor sky diving =) I have a cd of the flight, so while we may not look super cool in the suits, we look much better flying. |
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| Then Fiiz afterwards, a "Mormon Bar" where you can have any type of pop you can think of |
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