I hope you all had such an amazing week and that you're all continuing to have experiences sharing the gospel and feeling the amazing spirit that comes from doing so!! Me and my companion had an amazing experience this week that strengthened both of us a lot and especially me for myself!!
Anyways, so yesterday we ate lunch with a part member family. So we are working with two of them to be baptized and they're going to church every week, but they're planning on having their baptism in July. I hate that they're putting it off, but that's what they decided to do. Anyways, after we ate the family started talking to us about some Book of Mormon that they found online that had horrible things inside of it - I don't even want to mention what it was. So we told them that there are people constantly doing things like that to try to destroy the church and that we absolutely shouldn't believe those types of things. So then the sister started basically bashing missionaries and she said how there are a lot of gay missionaries. Anyways, if you know me, you know I was definitely defending the church with all my heart at that point and I was so mad that this sister had told us those things.
So we left the house and me and my companion started talking and we were both super frustrated and very mad as well. So we got back to the apartment later that night and I just sat there and thought about what she said. So through this experience, Heavenly Father allowed me to feel that yes, I am working hard out here, but that there's a lot more that I can do and there's a lot more we can do as a companionship.
So we talked about that and we both said that yes, we were working hard, but Heavenly Father wanted us to know that we could be working harder. I then promised my companion from this day forward, I will work as hard as I can. But I also told him I will need his help because there will be days where we won't want to work hard and that's when we need the help of our Heavenly Father or of our companion. It was an amazing experience and we were able to strengthen our companionship through it as well.
I know that the mission is one of the hardest dang things, but I've also received some of the greatest blessing and feelings that I've ever had in my life here in the mission field. Just as I bore my testimony yesterday I want you all to know that I KNOW that our Savior lives and that I truly can feel His presence in my life. I KNOW that He loves each and every one of us and I also KNOW that I've never been happier in my life then when I truly have followed His teachings. He is our Savior and our Redeemer. We can and will be able to live with Him again as we do all that we can here in this life. Yes, it is hard. But that's definitely not a good excuse. He literally felt every single one of our pains and sufferings. And He did that so that we can live with Him again. I'm so grateful for the opportunity we have to be here on the earth working together so that we can live with our families again.
I love you all so much and I'm so dang grateful and blessed to have the true gospel of Jesus Christ in my life. Have an amazing week and a Happy Mother's day to ALL the amazing mothers out there. I'm truly grateful for my mom as well as my grandmas and sister and sister-in-law and aunts and all the other amazing mothers that I know!! I know that every single one of the women in the church are such a strength to us all. I also know that I couldn't have asked for a better mom then my Heavenly Father has given me!! Also, happy birthday to my amazing brother, Dylan. I sure do love you man and I sure do love you all so much. Have an amazing week!!!!!!
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