Dear Family,
Can you believe how fast August has gone by? I literally blinked and it was gone. September entered with scorching 90 degree weather--la venganza del verano (summer's vengeance). This week it has been a beautiful 70 degrees and I am looking forward to fall weather! I love fall!
Can you believe how fast August has gone by? I literally blinked and it was gone. September entered with scorching 90 degree weather--la venganza del verano (summer's vengeance). This week it has been a beautiful 70 degrees and I am looking forward to fall weather! I love fall!
This week I had a goal to break all social norms! I know that it's a weird goal but it was also necessary. As I missionary I feel that we are completely out of the whole normal social scene. Example:
"Why are those people sprinting down the street like crazy people? Why are they asking me important details of my life? Oh they're missionaries? Ok that's cool."
"Why are those people sprinting down the street like crazy people? Why are they asking me important details of my life? Oh they're missionaries? Ok that's cool."
It's a strange phenomenon I know. For example if you see a set of missionaries and they DON'T talk to you then that's weird. People just expect us to do crazy things :)
I have had a killer cough for like two weeks! It makes proselyting a little miserable but on the plus side I am getting ripped abs!
Something I learned this week was the whole idea that the best solution to being sad because of your trials is helping someone else whose trials are even worse.
This week as I moped about how annoying it was to that I was sick, we went to visit our recent converts. One of them told us how he was stuck working 12 hours a day for the rest of his life because he had to support children who weren't his own, and that he had little hope of marriage or a family of his own, and had no one to love him. The other told us how he has been searching for work, has huge debts, suffers from depression and feels like God abandoned him.
Helping people with serious problems was the best way for me to see that life isn't really as bad as I think it might be. God really is blessing us, but usually we can only see the negative side of what is happening.
This week as I moped about how annoying it was to that I was sick, we went to visit our recent converts. One of them told us how he was stuck working 12 hours a day for the rest of his life because he had to support children who weren't his own, and that he had little hope of marriage or a family of his own, and had no one to love him. The other told us how he has been searching for work, has huge debts, suffers from depression and feels like God abandoned him.
Helping people with serious problems was the best way for me to see that life isn't really as bad as I think it might be. God really is blessing us, but usually we can only see the negative side of what is happening.
As I sat with someone who was at the brink of turning down the wrong path and plead with him to have faith, my priorities seemed to fall into line again. God is most important! More important than work, or school, or friends. In times of trials we can't fall away from God. We must go to Him. God gives us trials and He will help us through them. We can't forget Him, and if we have to suffer and fight for what we know is right then it will be worth it!
I know that it is always worth it to believe in God and follow Him. I've seen how the gospel changes people. I know this Church is true! I love you all! Remember to choose the right and know what you stand for!
I know that it is always worth it to believe in God and follow Him. I've seen how the gospel changes people. I know this Church is true! I love you all! Remember to choose the right and know what you stand for!
Love,
Sister Reed
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