Kumusta!
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This week was a crazy week filled with meetings, meetings and more
meetings! But what great experiences they were. We had a wonderful time at
Missionary Leadership Council and really tried to understand more about letting
the Lord have place in the work. But it was a time to contemplate the last time
I would be working so close with the leaders. We shared everything we learned
with the other missionaries in Zone training and found miracles occurring in the
lives of the missionaries here. We have been counseled to open our mouths and
share the gospel...and so we are making more of an effort to talk with all
people. And to see that the Lord is preparing His people for the gospel...we
just need to have the faith to talk with all and allow them to feel of the joy
that is found in the gospel.
And then we had the opportunity to listen to the leaders of the church in
the Women's General Broadcast...I felt so inspired and I loved the messages that
they shared. I am so very grateful for all the things that my family has been so
great to share with me and help me to accomplish as a daughter of God.
I love the work as a missionary because there are so many great days...you
have days that you are sitting on the side of the railroad tracks, trying to
teach about the importance of prayer and you are wondering why the Lord hasn't
taken control of the evil that is around you....but you realize that it is
required in order to see the good that is around you too. I love to know that
the Lord loves and trust us that he has given us the power to choose and to feel
the guidance that he wants to give us. i have learned so much about the power of
agency and the power that is plays....M. Russell Ballard says that we must be "
creators of circumstance and not creatures of circumstance." I love that this is
a gift that we have to use...but I am sad to see how God's children are using
it.
We had some really great experiences with our investigators as we shared
with them and they have felt the influence of the Spirit in their lives...I love
to play such a crucial role in their lives, now and in the eternities.
And you have to laugh when you are talking on the street with one of your
investigators and you slowly see a crowd gather around you...they didn't think
that you spoke Tagalog....and they are so confused and surprised. I love being a
missionary :)
And the days when you can take off your shoes and see that you have
seriously been burnt too much....because it looks like you are wearing socks
always ;P But to know that the heat is going to die,...but only after you leave
the country.
The Church is true...the Book of Mormon is blue and true too... and the
word of God shall continue to fill this earth and spill upon the ears of those
that are willing to hear...I am grateful that the Lord has given me this
opportunity :) For my life shall never be the same!
Sister Pace
Philippines Legazpi Mission
Alma 42: 31
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