Wanted to tell you a few of this weeks highlights I didn't get to yesterday. This week I learned once again the importance and the ability of the spirit to guide us every single day. I focused my studies one morning on listening and recognizing answers to our prayers...guidance through the Holy Ghost...It sure worked. He not only guides our steps but also our studies. If we let Him.
Deborah. We arrived at an apt. complex where there were a few people we wanted to visit. One of the woman named Coni Hna Batchkoff said, we should go to her first because it worked better with her schedule. But for some reason I felt like we needed to go visit Edith first this older lady on the other side of the complex...so we did. (Interestingly, I still found myself trying to talk myself out of it because it wasn't logical) But I decided to GO WITH IT! We headed to Edith's apartment and on the way, we ran into Deborah. We had run into before a while back but had to give her to the English Missionaries..She had told us she was a addicted to drugs and living with an alcoholic.. she had just found out she was pregnant and was searching for a way out. She went on to tell us, that she had just had a miscarriage and was really sick in the hospital. She expressed to us once again..God keeps putting you in my path. I know you are here to tell me that he still loves me. She said she feels like she is serving Satan and there is no way out...Satan wants each of us to feel like there is no way out. At first we just listened. I am learning how important that is. Then I asked if she would come to the car with us and we could give her a Book of Mormon. She agreed...although she didn't know why. She said to us.."I'm not going to lie, I have a packet of dope in my pocket and I have no desire to use it. I have never stood and talked to anyone without excuses...You are an answer to my prayers and whatever you say, whatever you give me to read it is true because this has never happened to me before." She just kept saying how there was this power she couldn't describe...for just a few moments she was able to live outside her life of addiction and feel power beyond her own...that is the Spirit. She expressed to us how hard it would be to leave behind her boyfriend although there relationship is not based on reality. I remember just opening my mouth and speaking with such sincerity that was not my own...saying something like..."Imagine yourself in love with a good respectful man...a pure love. Then imagine having kids...creating a family...then being able to live with that family forever. Having "real" purpose to your life. She just thought. It is hard to know what to say when you can't quite relate to someone. But something you can always say is, your Savior Jesus Christ can heal you. He is the only one. I remember reading to her Mosiah 24:12-16..."That is my answer..oh my gosh..."....The Book of Mormon is so true. It is so powerful...It always has an answer if we have the faith. I just realized once again. Deborah's life can change. But she has to make the change. She has to pull the strength from her Savior to change her life with His help. We can't do it for her.
Gabi. We drove by her house and her car was there. I knew we needed to go visit her even though it wasn't in our plans. She opened the door Hna Batchkoff went in to greet her Mom visiting from Mexico. Gabi quietly told me, things at work are really bad and she is really sad but doesn't want her mom to worry. She then went on to tell us after we'd shared a scripture about the Atonement she told us just before we knocked on the door, she was thinking of sending us a text to ask her to keep us in her prayers....wow. It's real.
Heavenly Father always tells me he guides my steps. I don't know why it is so hard to believe Him. Why do we ever wonder. Because it is after the trial of our FAITH...
Su Padre Celestial le ama. Ni modo lo que otras personas le dicen. No importa. Lo que es importante es lo que Padre Celestial piensa. Y El quiere el mejor por cada uno de nosotros. Pero nosotros escogimos nuestras vidas.
What is most important to you? Think about it.
les quiero.
Hermana Holland
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