Today is my half way mark. Ahhhhhh! I don’t know how I
should feel? I’m torn between being excited and sad.
Yesterday I learned that my area had a name in the
mission. I’m serving in La Huerta, and the missionaries knew it as “La Muerta”
(the dead) because it was an area well known for never having baptisms. How sad
is that? I never want to leave La Huerta! I think it’s the best ward ever.
On Monday I got a call from our district leader and he
told me I was invited to the Leadership Training Meeting. Scary stuff. So
Tuesday and Wednesday I spent all day at the church learning how to be a better
missionary. It was a great learning opportunity, and I have officially decided
that I can’t be finished in nine months. I have WAY too much still to learn, to
be at my half way mark. I have experienced so much happiness sharing the gospel!
We visited a less active member this week. We normally
visit her on Fridays, but decided to visit her on Saturday instead. As we were
teaching, she started crying. She told us that she was hoping that we would
come this day, because she has been having trials and really needed to hear
this message. As we pray, God will always guide our paths. It made me think of
a quote from Henry B. Eyring, “You hold in your hands the happiness of more
people than you can imagine.” We have the fullness of the gospel and we know
the path to eternal life. We know the happiness that others are missing, but if
we don’t share it how will they know? If we don’t share, we are holding back
the happiness from those we love.
And now a quote I like. “However late you think
you are, however many chances you think you have missed, however many mistakes
you feel you have made, or talents you think you don't have, or distance from
home and family and God you feel you have traveled, I testify that you have not
traveled beyond the reach of divine love. It is not possible for
you to sink lower than the infinite light of Christ’s Atonement shines.” -Jeffrey
R. Holland
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