Hola everyone!!
There are plenty of times as a missionary Heavenly Father will
test our Faith. Although our week was full of failed anticipated
lessons, I still was able to feel his love for me and the rest of his
children. Patience is an interesting thing. Sometimes we may think
we have patience until the test really comes. There were a few days
this week that were kinda hard. We have some great investigators with
a lot of potential yet we find it difficult to meet with them the more
golden they are!! One of our investigators that has a baptism date
hasn't met with us for a while, so that's been kind of strange.
But..... It's okay!! We just keep working and believe that God is
preparing his children to receive the restored gospel just as he is
preparing his missionaries to teach it.
On Thursday we had an intercambio (some English missionaries
would probably call it a missionary exchange haha) and so for 1 day I
was with Hermana West, the sister training leader. Before she left
she told me something that I really needed to hear. I've been
thinking about this for a while so I want to share it with you guys!
She talked about the talk called "His grace is sufficient" by Brad
Wilcox.. And said that sometimes we think we have to reach a certain
point before we can pray and ask for help. But in reality, Christ has
already made up the difference.. In fact he IS all the difference!!! I
mean this was obviously something I already knew, but apparently I
needed to hear it again.
So a couple of days ago I decided to have an extra sincere prayer
and really tried to connect with my Heavenly Father. And I know that
he is there. There are days that I feel like a terrible missionary,
or like I can't do anything right... But then I realize why I'm here
and really how sacred and powerful this message is that I am sharing.
That alone helps me feel happy. I testify that this is the restored
gospel. It brings me a kind of peace everyday that I can't put into
words. But what I can say is that the Book of Mormon is literal
evidence that is here for us to know for
ourselves if this is really truly is Christ's restored church. If the
Book of Mormon is true, then so was Joseph Smith a prophet of God. I
am so grateful for this knowledge. My favorite thing about
missionaries is we tell people not to take our word for it. We tell
them to go to the greatest source truth to find out. There are some
days that I don't want to go out and face the crazy country of
Spain... But I know that Christ really does strengthen me. I couldn't
do any of this without him. It truly is his work.
One of the cool things we get to do with our iPads is show the
new bible videos that were made by the church. If you haven't seen
them all, go download them from the gospel library app!! I feel like I
have already felt closer to my savior by watching these videos. They
are awesome!
Okay one more thing. This may seem silly, but it's not silly. ☺️ I
think that on missions God blesses us to overcome little tiny things.
Por ejemplo, on Sunday we ate baked lemon chicken that was wrapped in
Bacon. YUM most of you would say. But for me eating meat has always
been really hard. Well here I am sitting on my bed, writing an email
AND CRAVING BACON WRAPPED CHICKEN. Oh my goodness, I think I'm
turning into a new woman!! Ha
1 Nefi 22:25-31 READ IT!! It is a great scripture about peace. 😀
Love you all. Thank you for all your prayers, thoughts and emails! I
wouldn't want to be anywhere else in the world to spend my last 2
weeks being a teenager than serving the Lord. How lucky am I? 😋
Hermana Sydney Berry
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