This week has been a very crazy week. We have seen many miracles and a minor set back. On Monday we moved into an apartment that is more central to our area and also to save miles. It was so sad to leave the Johnston’s because we love them so much. Our apartment is in a perfect spot and we have seen some great miracles from it! On Tuesday, the day after, we were jogging around the complex and a woman came up to me and asked if I wanted a Mary Kay magazine. I said that I would love to but I cannot as I am a missionary for my church. She looked at me and said “From the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint”? I said yes we just moved in. She asked where we moved in to and I told her then she abruptly ended the conversation and left. Two hours later we get a knock on our door and it was her! Sister Wassinik, in her marine uniform, had been thinking about coming back to church but didn’t know how to find out where the church was located. We have seen so many wonderful miracles from our move and have saved tons of miles and just might make it through this month.
Another Miracle is Stephany. Today she is currently flying to California. Argh! I am going to miss her so much. Everyday we have visited her and got her excited for the adventure in Maywood. Yesterday we had our last lesson and both me and Sister Theurer felt prompted to have a mini testimony meeting. It was so wonderful. I love her so much and I am so sad to see her go but I know that we were suppose to meet her and she is suppose to go to Maywood and be part of the congregation there. She is going to make a great member of that ward. They need her there.
On Friday we had dinner and a lesson with Tricia. It was so sad. Last Sunday she did not come to church and we found out that it was because her husband yelled at her and said that he really will divorce her if she becomes a member. It was so sad. She is so scared. We have been praying about it a lot lately. We are still going to visit her and teach her but we are putting her more in the Relief Society hands. They have been taking good care of her. She has so many wonderful friends of the church.
I am still studying consecration and the talk ‘Swallowed Up in the Will of the Father’. I have gained so much insight from the talk it is amazing. One part in particular has been a source of comfort these past few days:
As one’s will is increasingly submissive to the will of God, he can receive inspiration and revelation so much needed to help meet the trials of life. In the trying and very defining Isaac episode, faithful Abraham “staggered not … through unbelief” (Rom. 4:20). Of that episode John Taylor observed that “nothing but the spirit of revelation could have given him this confidence, and … sustained him under these peculiar circumstances” (in Journal of Discourses, 14:361). Will we too trust the Lord amid a perplexing trial for which we have no easy explanation? Do we understand—really comprehend—that Jesus knows and understands when we are stressed and perplexed? The complete consecration which effected the Atonement ensured Jesus’ perfect empathy; He felt our very pains and afflictions before we did and knows how to succor us (see Alma 7:11–12; 2 Ne. 9:21). Since the Most Innocent suffered the most, our own cries of “Why?” cannot match His. But we can utter the same submissive word “nevertheless …” (Matt. 26:39).
Heavenly Father is so aware of us. Of course, He sent His son to Atone for us. I am learning so much about the Atonement and about how much He truly, truly cares for each of us.
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