Well transfers this week and I HOPE I get shifted, I am SOOO ready for a change, and I will be really really sad to say goodbye to this area and people who have become family, but I am already preparing myself, so I think it would be good to go:) We will see though, and I guess you will know next week unless someone spills the beans before!!
This week we had Zone Conference and it was amazing. President Cummings is unreal. He is such an inspired man, and I really know that I was called here to meet him. I love him to death, and he literally just uses Sister Gurney and I during his training's, it's quite embarrassing hahah.
Well I just want to share a part of a man's testimony that he bore in testimony meeting yesterday, this man is named Brother Salima, and he is Samoan, is probably in his 50's and has a few children. He bore his testimony and said,
"Today I am grateful. As you all know I am looking for a job, and I will continue to look. But today I feel grateful. I received a text this morning that said "today at noon your power will be shut off" I called the lady and she wouldn't answer, I really will pay my bill he thought to himself. He texted the lady back and said "Today is my Sabbath Day, I cannot break the Sabbath, so I cannot pay today, please I will pay tomorrow if you will please extend my payment." He said he got a text back and it said "your power will be cut off tomorrow at noon." He just wept as he said, and today I am grateful. Grateful that Heavenly Father answers our prayers that he loves us and he loves me."
Today I feel grateful, and I feel humbled. I feel so honored to be serving a mission. I know it's been really hard for me and I have felt homesick and missed home, but I wish you knew how grateful I feel for this time I get to fully serve my Savior. I just want you each to know that I know this is the true Church on Earth. I want you to know that I know that the Book of Mormon is true. I know that our Heavenly Father hears our silent pleadings, he puts his arms around us when we feel we are completely lost. I can truly say I have never felt so much sadness, peace, happiness, or trial before in my life, but I would take a 100 more of anything so that I could somehow repay my Savior for all he did for me. I want you to know and to never forget that I bore my witness that I know that the Book of Mormon is the word of God. I know that Heavenly Father lives, and he loves, the CREATOR of the World, LOVES and KNOWS YOU.
I feel humbled and grateful to be a missionary, a man drove by the other day as we were out walking, and yelled "GOD'S ARMY" and saluted us. It was silly, but it's true, we are all God's army, I feel so grateful to be among the front line of that teaching his gospel to those who are in darkness. I love you family, I am humbled and grateful, I will never ever be able to forget my sacred experiences here, I am so grateful I came, I cannot imagine my life without having been here right now as a Full Time Servant of my Savior Jesus Christ.
I love you more than words express
Arohanui,
Sister Maddie DeLoach
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