Date
November 23, 2015
Area
Virginia, United States
Companion
Hermana Yost
Thou art the potter, I am the clay.
Hello everyone. Wow i am just so amazed at all the tender mercies of
the lord this week. As a companionship we have been really good at
talking to EVERYONE and the Lord has blessed us. I think this is
something that i really needed to learn my last transfer to prepare me
for sharing the Gospel with everyone i meet at home. Why would i stop
sharing it? A couple stories.
the first one is about a man that we saw walking in La Mancha. He was
walking super fast, and he was actually far ahead of us. But we just
booked it. We felt so strongly that we need to talk to him. We were
running and running and yelling "DISCUPLE!!!" and finally we caught up
to him and began to talk to him. When we told him who we were he just
started crying. and it was so powerful.
Another one was late at night. our member drove us back to the church
at 8:50 so we could drive home, but there was someone parked there and
we felt like we needed to go give him a Book of Mormon. We went and
knocked on his window, and told him who we were and first said,
"mormons dont go to church, do they?" and we pointed to the church and
said that it was where we go, and he began to ask us so many inspired
questions, and he wanted to know if Thomas S. Monson is a prophet of
God. He was so prepared and i just kept asking myself, "what if we
didnt come talk to him?"
It was just so amazing. I have been thinking a lot about this hymn
that was shared in general conference that says:
"Have Thine own way, Lord!
Have Thine own way!
Thou art the Potter; I am the clay.
Mould me and make me After Thy will,
While I am waiting, Yielded and still."
As i have been thinking back on my mission the Lord has blessed me
enough to be able to see the change that has taken place within
myself. I made a decision a while ago, that i would follow the Lord,
no matter what. That i would sacrifice anything He would ask of me,
and that i would let Him be my Potter, and I His clay. It was the best
decision i have ever made. Why would we hinder our own growth by not
allowing Him to change us, and take us higher than we currently are?
It was moments like when we were standing there on the side of a busy
street testifying of the Atonement of Jesus Christ with that beautiful
human crying his eyes out, that mould me into what God wants me to be.
I love the Lord and His work.
Odds&Ends:
-->Forgot to mention.. but we have CHINCHES! (bed bugs)
so family, be prepared for those when i come home, lol
--> That one time this week when we felt like we needed to have a man
come with us to a lesson to be more safe, and we called our RC and he
said he was busy but his nephews could go. Yep, we had 2 non members,
not even investigators, come with us as body guards to a lesson. haha!