dear everyone,
this has been quite a week! last weekend as a district we did a fast together because in all of our areas we have been lacking in certain areas of the work. this week we were able to see really sweet blessings from that fast.
personally, we have been struggling with getting appointments so we have been contacting all the time. this week, every single day we had lessons! every person we passed by was home, and even when we had dinner appointments there ended up being nonmembers there to teach! it was such a tender mercy from Heavenly Father!
we had a really great lesson with our investigator, euchariste. she is from haiti and is super into meditation. she has this lady she follows who is her meditation guide and she has pictures of her all over her house, it`s kinda weird but she is very nice and has lots of good questions. wednesday we wanted to see her and we couldn`t get ahold of her on the phone, so we just decided to pass by. everything worked out and we got in to her building no problem. we knocked on her door and she answered and told us that she had just came home but since it was us she would let us in. we had a really wonderful lesson about the plan of salvation with her and she really opened up to us.
this week we also had a lot of opposition. tuesday it was pouring rain and Einstein over here forgot her raincoat and an umbrella, so i was soaking wet all day. and thursday, thursday i was SO SICK with food poisoning all day so we couldn`t go out. saturday we went over to an investigators` house and they got into an argument (almost yelling) about religion in front of us and it was really awkward but everything worked out and we were able to have a really beautiful lesson afterwards about how Heavenly Father blesses us in our afflictions.
this week i finished the Book of Mormon again in my personal studies. i decided to go back and read individual chapters for the rest of the week during my studies instead of restarting again immediately. i was reading this morning in 2 Néphi 4, which is when Nephi has his lament to God, and it`s AWESOME! (this will be parts of verses 17-35)
"O wretched man that I am! Yea, my heart sorroweth because of my flesh; my soul grieveth because of mine iniquities.
I am encompassed about, because of the temptations and the sins which do so easily beset me.
And when I desire to rejoice, my heart groaneth because of my sins; nevertheless, I know in whom I have trusted.
My God hath been my support; he hath led me through mine afflictions in the wilderness; and he hath preserved me upon the waters of the great deep.
He hath filled me with his love, even unto the consuming of my flesh.
He hath confounded mine enemies, unto the causing of them to quake before me.
Behold, he hath heard my cry by day, and he hath given me knowledge by visions in the night-time.
...yea, my voice have I sent up on high; and angels came down and ministered unto me.
... And mine eyes have beheld great things, yea, even too great for man...
O then, if I have seen so great things, if the Lord in his condescension unto the children of men hath visited men in so much mercy, why should my heart weep and my soul linger in the valley of sorrow, and my flesh waste away, and my strength slacken, because of mine afflictions?
...O Lord, wilt thou redeem my soul? Wilt thou deliver me out of the hands of mine enemies? Wilt thou make me that I may shake at the appearance of sin?
O Lord, I have trusted in thee, and I will trust in thee forever...
Yea, I know that God will give liberally to him that asketh. Yea, my God will give me, if I ask not amiss; therefore I will lift up my voice unto thee; yea, I will cry unto thee, my God, the rock of my righteousness. Behold, my voice shall forever ascend up unto thee, my rock and mine everlasting God. Amen."
now that i have just quoted the whole Book of Mormon, isn`t it awesome??? i love how he starts out lamenting because he is a wicked man and if he is a wicked man, we all have a lot of work to do, but he remembers all of the things that the Lord has done for him. i especially love the last verse, "I know that my God will give me if I ask not amiss." i know this is true, too. i have seen it. He does support us in all things. we are never alone! and He hears and answers all of our prayers!
i love you all! have a great week!
love,
Sœur Paine
pictures:
notre dame de Montréal
soaking wet sister paine
we got bagels from a bagel place that is supposed to be famous
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