What a week it has been! We went to trainers training on Tuesday through Wednesday. We met our companions on
Wednesday morning and left in the
afternoon of Wednesday to our
areas. Attached is a picture of Sister Andrada and I with our new companions.
Sister Hafoka is my new companion. She is from Tonga. She is 20 years old. She
is half Tongan and half German. She is a really great sister. She is really
quiet so we are working to find a way to help her adjust to everything. It has
definitely been an interesting week...just between training and adjusting to the
change in our area...we have been trying our best. We had some really great
lessons this week with our less actives and it was such a blessing to be able to
introduce them first to my new companion and help her to adjust to the members
in the area. I am hoping that this next week we will be able to find more people
to teach to adjust for the boundary changes and find a way to work better with
the members in the branch. I am sorry that I don't have much for pictures or
reporting to you....there is a lot of change that is occurring within our
branch, mission and companionships and we are trying to find a way to adjust and
change to work best as servants of the Lord. I know that this is the work of the
Lord. I know that the Lord restored His gospel through the prophet Joseph Smith.
I know that the Lord is behind each of us to help guide and strengthen us as we
do His will. I have felt His strength and guidance as I have been entrusted to
train Sister Hafoka. I never thought that I would be able to do it at this
time...but who the Lord calls...He qualifies.
I have to say that it has been weird to think that I am half way through my
mission...10 more months. But I how I wish that I could tell you what great
growth moments I have experienced....but they have each happened gradually. Just
as we learn the gospel line upon line and precept upon precept, we learn about
our purpose and the will of the Lord, line upon line and precept upon precept. I
have learned more about my part in the plan of our Loving Heavenly Father. I
have gained a greater knowledge and testimony of what the Lord desires for us to
become. And I have seen more than ever the importance of each of God's children.
Although some can be really difficult....I know that the Lord loves them anyways
and cares for their salvation....and so should I. This is something that Henry
B. Eyring said, "You didn't come for the weeds. You came for the Savior." we
didn't come to this earth to deal with the 'weeds' that are in our life, our
work, etc...we came for the Savior..."I came into the world, to do the will of
my Father, because my Father sent me" (3 Nephi 27:13). The Lord sent me here to
do His will. I am still learning what that entirely requires of me...but how I
have felt the love of the Lord as I have struggled to understand His will for me
in His vineyard. Dad, I can't say that I have met any heavenly messengers....or
at least I have not had an eye keen enough to recognize them as one. There are
many things that you could suspect or generalize about heavenly messengers. But
I feel that the people you have in your presence are heavenly messengers in
their own ways. Their purpose, is to help you to find your way.
I am so very grateful for this opportunity to serve in the Philippines and
in the vineyard of the Lord. I am surprised each day, by the joy that Heavenly
Father gives to me and the opportunity to be His servant. I know that this is
the Lord's work and there is to come, greater and more glorious miracles in the
world.
Ingat po kayo palagi!
Sister Pace
new companions
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