Hey Everyone!

I don't have a lot this week, haha it was just another week of missionary work :) But it was great haha. The usual in missionary work is still awesome.

 

I wrote on Tuesday so I will start with Wednesday, just a quick story.

I was on exchanges with a sister and the day had been going kind of rough, and we didn't really know who we should go visit next, so we decided to walk around a neighborhood for a few minutes and talk to people in the street. So we are walking around, and we turn a corner and there is a HUGE huskie standing in the street, and the thing looked like it was gonna kill us. I looked over at sister bell and said "either this dog is gonna kill us or he's gonna be super nice" we then took a step closer and the dog growled a little at us. We took another step and then he walked right over to us and let us pet him, But right when we went to pet him another huge dog started barking and running at and we freaked out. It was pretty funny and a little scary cause the dogs (There ended up being 3 that ran out) looked like they wanted to eat us, But right after they ran out so their owner and we got to talk to the lady for about 20 minutes about what we do as missionaries, and the sisters are going back to talk to her more this week :)

 

On Thursday Sister Price and I gave a training in our Missionary Leadership Council, and it went really well :) I was so nervous though haha. I thought my ability to speak in front of people would get better on my mission, but it definitely has not. I still get super nervous in front of big groups of people.

 

The rest of the week was pretty average, just visiting people and teaching them, it was great!

 

Since my email is so short this week i'll add really quickly a quote from a talk that has really stuck with me this week..

actually there were a few things I really liked from the talk, If you have time, you should read it but if you don't, here are a few highlights...

 

"everything Heavenly Father does is ultimately for our benefit, even if we cannot understand why. And since God's thoughts and ways are higher than ours, we need to elevate our lives to be more in harmony with His plan for us.

 

"The Lord has placed currents of divine influence in your life that will lead you along the individual plan He would have you fulfill here on earth. Seek through the Spirit to identify it and carefully follow that direction that the Lord has put in your life. Align yourself with it. Choose, willingly, to exercise your agency to follow it."

 

 "How we choose to respond to these experiences determines, in a large part, our happiness. And if we spend our lives wondering while we wander, we may miss out on wonderful opportunities for spiritual growth.

 

 "Often the deep valleys of our present will be understood only by looking back on them from the mountains of our future experience. Often we can't see the Lord's hand in our lives until long after trials have passed. Often the most difficult times of our lives are essential building blocks that form the foundation of our character and pave the way to future opportunity, understanding, and happiness."

 

haha okay I think i gave you half of the talk right there... but I just really liked the whole thing. I feel like I have really come to understand that more and more lately. We don't always understand why things happen the way they do, but if we trust the lord, and have the faith that we are in his watchful care, then we can be happy no matter what is happening. I think that has been my favorite thing I have been able to teach people on my mission. That no matter what is happening in life, that when we are aligned with God's will, we can be happier.

I love and miss you all so much!

Sister Rebecca Redd