Ups and Downs

This week has had it's ups and downs, but it's all good.

We did a lot of work with recent converts and less active members this week. We also saw John this week and he's still on track for his baptism on the 20th! He's really an awesome guy and has a strong testimony!

Miracles we saw this week:

Saturday was just a very rough day. None of our plans worked out like we hoped they would and we had a lot of people just giving us some opposition. It was 8 o clock and we couldn't think of anyone to go see. We debated just going in early, because we felt so exhausted, and planning a really good day for the next day or trying to find someone to see. We said a really great prayer and a recently returning single sister's name popped into my head. We texted her to see if we could stop by and she said she had just gotten in to town from Austin and wouldn't be home for another ten minutes, but we could come by then. So we go over and have a good conversation with her and share our message about how God loves us and told her about how she'd been an answer to our prayers because she just made us feel so much better about the day we had had. She told us we were an answer to her prayers as well because she'd been feeling really lonely and hadn't wanted to come home to an empty house. It was really amazing! God truly does care for us and watch over us!

Then on Sunday we were blessed to be able to help out in primary with singing time. Sister Larsen did most of the work because I just don't know how to do singing time in primary, but it was still lots of fun. We have a lot of cute kids in the ward.

OH! And Thursday was really good too! We had a big dinner with the YSA and we had planned to just talk with them about the Holy Ghost. Maybe 5 minutes before the lesson Sister Larsen and I needed to run out to the car to grab her Preach My Gospel. There were a lot of people at this dinner  we didn't normally see and who were struggling to return to activity, Felix being among them. So when we get outside Sister Larsen turns to me and tells me that the lesson we had planned didn't feel right anymore. I had had that feeling a little earlier but got distracted by something else and didn't pay attention to it. So I ask her if there's something else she feels we should share. We decide to say a prayer because she didn't know what else to share, just that what we had planned wasn't the right thing. After the prayer she brings up the scripture in 1 Nephi 1 about tender mercies. We both agree that it is what they need to hear and pray for the spirit to guide us in what else the YSA members need to hear. I felt this peace come upon me as we went back inside, although there was a little bit of anxiety too, but like good anxiety. I just knew this was going to be good. We share the scripture and a few people share examples of tender mercies they've received. I could feel the spirit prompting me as they spoke to tie it all into how we feel the spirit like we had originally planned on teaching. I started to talk and got distracted by something one of the members did. I paused for a long moment, trying to regain my thought and just opened by mouth to say anything and I could feel the spirit fill it. I was able to testify boldly of the spirit and how we need to make sure that we are doing the right things in our lives so that we can feel it and that it can reveal God's tender mercies to us. As I spoke I could feel the power of my words. The only adequate way I could describe how I feel is that I felt like a lion. It was really amazing to me. It was a powerful witness of faith and of the divinity of Sister Larsen and I's callings in that moment. I'm grateful that we were able to be instruments in the Lord's hands like this and be able to recognize it.

I know that there were a lot more miracles we experienced this week. I'm grateful for a loving Heavenly Father who allows us so many miracles in our lives. I know Heavenly Father loves us all so much and that He will send angels and tender mercies into our lives to show us that. I know this gospel is true. I know that there is no greater work than the Lord's, even when it's hard. He is always there for us. I'm grateful for this knowledge I have, because it helps me in the darkest moments. That is my testimony. I know that the Savior lives! Have a great week!

-Sister Morrill