Hello Everyone!
Greetings from I'm-so-happy-that-the-weather-has-stayed-this-lovely-and-there-hasn't-been-a-single-sign-of-snow-Colorado!!
Yep... I'm spoiled... I'm so grateful.
This week has been an interesting week to say the least, but I always come back to my mission motto "There's no growth in the comfort zone, and it's not comfortable in the growth zone".... why am I so right? ha ha. I'm very grateful that God loves me enough to give me one more growth zone before I get sent back to all of you. I want His image to be in my countenance, and I know that that process sometimes has to be painful.... I don't want to kick against the pricks anymore, but to willingly let the Savior change me. With whatever process He chooses to use..
Wow... I was going to give a completely different spiritual thought but then I read Sister Brown's weekly email in which she completely answered my prayers. As I come to the close of my mission, with the knowledge and understanding that I have now, I sometimes wish I could go back and redo, or I worry if I haven't accomplished the miracles God wanted me to accomplish... I hear stories from other missionaries and they seem to end in "and 2 weeks later they were baptized"... and then I wonder if I haven't done what I should have done.... but I realize that God didn't send me here to serve a perfect mission. He sent me here to learn and grow. He sent me here to work miracles, yes, but those miracles come in many different shapes and sizes. For some missionaries, those are hosts of people dressed in which entering a baptismal font (and I have been very blessed to witness a few myself) but maybe a miracle is answering the prayer of a member and letting them know God was thinking about them, maybe it was coming to serve someone who was at the end of the rope and exhausted.... God has many ways that He shows His love, and His tender mercies are real. I am a witness of that. I'm grateful that He has allowed me to be a means of someone receiving a tender mercy, and I'm also very thankful that He has sent many my way too. My invitation to you this week is to pray to be an answer to someone's prayer every day this week... follow through with the promptings you get, especially if they don't make sense. The Spirit rarely prompts us to do something convenient or in our comfort zone... or else we would already be doing it, right? So let's all be the means of a tender mercy this week!
I love you all so much. I am so grateful for my mission. I'm so grateful for my Savior. I know that He lives, and that He loves me and perfectly understands me. I know that He wipes away my tears... even if they are silly irrational tears. He cares so much about us.
Onward Christian Soldiers!
From me to you, Sister Kinzie Lou
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