Skip to main content

By and By....

hello everyone !!
it was such a beautiful week ! I have been given so many reasons to be grateful. First is being able to attend the temple. I have never received so much peace and clarity in my life, I loved it so much ♡ I am so grateful for my momma and Heman and that they made the effort to come !! It was such a sweet moment to see them and hug my momma once again. In addition, general conference weekend !! It was so powerful! I loved Elder Hollands talk so much. "How long should we wait...?"
BY. AND. BY.
Even when we give our best efforts to the Lord, "time in our mortal journey is His." With trust in the Savior we can all be delivered through our trials. One thing that a senior missionary in our office said to me this last week was, "Heavenly Father is happy with you because you are willing to struggle for Him." Tending to our problems won't always have an easy fix, but through them we find ourselves more reliant upon the Saviors grace. So as you struggle and persevere for the Lord, you should know that Heavenly Father is happy with your efforts!! He is happy you, too, are willing to struggle for Him! Just as Elder Holland said, "Christianity is comforting but not comfortable." God won't let us be content with our weaknesses, so with all of this said I just want to reiterate Elder Hollands promise of those who wait on the Lord will have renewed strength! I love my Savior and I love my Heavenly Father. I may be too impatient to love His timing, but everything happens when it should...I am learning to love His timing 🤣!

When I reflect back to this week, I can see God just taking His work into His own hands whether we are participating or not! It felt so busy this week with temple, meetings and trying to tend to personal matters that God took care of everything. He knew I NEEDED His help haha! He literally handled things to us that have strengthened my testimony even more of prayer!! Last week I mentioned a lady named Kartier. Okay, if I'm being honest this lady was a joy-sucker. She took happiness, positivity, and joy out of everything. She has difficulty with trust issues so thats super tough to work around. BUT like I said, God answers prayers and He especially takes His work into His own hands. This last week Kartier called us every other day (trust✔) , she moved in with her family (Law of Chastity ✔ we prayed about this hard-core because you cant be baptized unless you live in a separate home from your boyfriend or get married), she has some pep in her step (increased spirit=increased joy✔), and she is just getting her life together. She recognizes it is all from God so being here for Kartiers change is the BEST ! I am happy for her to be making these decisions and choices to find God in her life !! But other than that not a whole lot of other fun. We had to hand off Ernesto and his friend Jose to the Elders because of misinterpretation of lessons...haha!!
Hope you all have a good week, God speed !!
sister fin <3 


General conf with the crew
Temple trip<3
This cute random dog joined us for studies!!




























Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Pushin Through!

TALOFFFAAA!  it was a pretty alright week. I was really ran down into the ground aka exhausted from the week prior. My body really gave out on me & I got sick for a few days so I was out of the work for a second. But I'm back, lively as ever lol! This week was really hard honestly. On top of being sick, I found out one of the families I am close with from Long Beach, the dad is on his death bed. I struggled knowing this but God really pulled me thru. It was everything to me to be reminded of His wonderful plan of salvation. I feel so blessed to be in this gospel !  Some things that happened this week ☆ i got called up last minute to speak in stake conference . . . it went well lol ! I am a fan of public speaking so :) but I was very stressed. The spirit was telling me to go thru my study journal the entire meeting & I just KNEW I was going up to bear testimony but it wasn't until last minute the stake president had announced my name lol.  ☆ we had a talent night w...

Miraclllllles

Such an amazing week !! as the weeks pass on I'm getting worst & worst at writing these lol. But it was such a great week that I couldn't skip it !! There were so many miracles.  ☆ One of our friends baptism, Athena, keeps having her date pushed back because her grandma was stuck in Alaska. So, we fasted on Sunday then two days later the grandma came home !! #blessed she has a solid date of next Saturday.  ☆ Our member kept texting us to visit this random household & we finally found the time to do it a few days later. We showed up & they were so sweet !! The Letele family told us our member invited them to our wards Father Day Dance which is why they gave our member their address and number . . . I'll tell you right now there is no Fathers day dance . . . Bahahah but they're very interested ☆ We have a group of kids we are trying to teach from the same family (Schuster & Faletoi) & they randomly hit us up bc their mom invited us to their family gath...

Absence

The clock strikes 12:47am. My companions rush hurriedly to the door. I make my way down the stairs, trying not to fall asleep. As I felt the cool air brush against my face, I pull my blanket to me, angrily mumbling. I stare at the asphalt covered in droplets of rain but when I eyes revert to whats ahead of me, I deeply longed to go back in time 20 seconds prior. My heart sunk deep in my stomach as if it was the titanic. I look to my phone and the word 'absence' appeared as my daily common word from the Word Web app. I chuckled at how ironic this vocabulary applied to my very situation in the moment.   Our car was absent.   We won't go into detail but we actually found our car hahah after like 20 mins, we are just dumb ! I actually laughed so hard when I saw the word absence though because I truly felt called out by my own phone haha. But it was a wild adventure... I got to spend the night at some sisters apartment on the hardwood floor. Got 3 hours of sleep with a 6 hour me...