I was studying the new manual on teachings of
president Lorenzo Snow and found this quote I fell in love with
&& I wanted to share it with you!!
" Do not expect to become perfect all at once. If you do, you will be
disappointed. Be better today than you were yesterday, and better
tomorrow than you are today. The temptations that perhaps partially
overcome us today, let them not overcome us so far tomorrow. Thus
continue to be a little better day by day and do not let your life wear
away without accomplishing good to others as well as to ourselves.
Each
last day or each last week should be the best hat we have ever
experienced, that is we should advance ourselves a little every day ,in
knowledge and wisdom, and in the ability to accomplish good. As we grow
older we should live nearer the lord each following day."
I
love that quote by Lorenzo Snow, Even though I am faced with
challenging times of difficult days - Each challenge I'm faced with
makes me stronger and allows me to more fully embrace God's love in my
life. I've found that it's often during the hardest times that make you
into the person your supposed to be. This week went by SUPER FAST! It
had it's ups and downs - but thinking back there were so many times
Heavenly Father poured out his blessings upon me. It really isn't fair
how much we are blessed for the things that we do.
Someone
asked me what the hardest part of missionary work is… I've been
thinking a lot about it, and besides having to carry around my huge
scriptures everywhere the hardest thing is how clearly I am beginning to
understand God's love for his children. That sounds kind of silly that
its the hardest thing for me, but the more I learn about my Savior and
Gods plan for us, the more I realized the importance of it, and the
stronger my desire to share it with others is. Which makes it even
harder when people reject our message. Each day I am built up
spiritually and then I realize how blessed I am, but everyone has their
agency and can chose whatever they want to believe in. I'd say its hard
to know and to see the miracles in my life, and trying earnestly each
day for others to see even a glimpse of God's love for them, and they
can't. Or they simply refuse to and hate us for trying to simply give
them the opportunity to let God bless their lives and bless them and
their families. But everyone has their agency, and I'm not called to
force anyone to believe what I believe, I'm called to love, serve, and
help them… But it still makes it a harder pill to swallow when they
simply don't care at all.
Were
reading Alma right now for our mission tour that is coming up in March
and in Chapter 28:8 it states that this is an account of Ammon and his
brethern's sufferings, sorrows, afflications…. and incomprehensible joy.
That seemed to stick out to me, they experienced all these hard
difficult experiences but in the end had Incomprehensible Joy. Seems
backwards logically, but that really is how missionary life works. The
challenges I'm experience allow me to more fully understand my Savior
and allow me to exercise faith and see how much power is available to us
when we stop relying on our own abilities and let God take over our
life.
I
love the scripture Alma 26:12 - " Yea, I know that I am nothing; as to
my strength I am weak; therefore I will not boast of myself, but I will
boast of my God, for in his strength I can do all things; yea, behold
many mighty miracles we have wrought in this land, for which we will
praise his name forever."
Weekly Recap:
Like
I said this week just flew by! On Wednesday we had district meeting
where Elder Moon asked me Tuesday night to give a talk on Faith. I have
been studying it for the past week or so, but didn't feel like I fully
understood it- nevertheless I was grateful for the opportunity to talk
about it, there is so many blessings teachers are given to have the
opportunity to search study and pray before teaching. Often I think the
teachers learn more than the ones being taught. Either way it was a
blessing to be able to help out with some of the training, even though
it was me who learnt the most from it!
Thursday
was Valentines Day! We had a party at the church in the evening where
we made cards, watched Charlie Browns Valentines day and played "a
minute to win it". It was a lot of fun! Our 3 potential investigators we
planned it for didn't show up last minute tho :(, Luckily God was
looking out for us and this random guy walked into the church to use the
bathroom and we invited him to join us. He said thanks but then left… a
little while later she came back and brought 2 friends with him!! They
stayed the whole time and had a lot of fun. Miracle :)
Yesterday
after church we rand into these preachers from the " I love Jesus"
church, normally they aren't very nice to missionaries but I took their
flyer and gave them a pass along card! They were super nice and friendly
and encouraged us to work hard, I thanked them and told them the same
with a big smile. Then they gave us popcorn!!! haha awesome! :) Nothing
makes me happier than people being nice to each other. Those two old
guys made up for all the people who yell at us.
It's often the little miracles that make the biggest difference in my life. <3
Well I love all of you so much! Keep watching out for those little miracles in your life and let me know about them!
Love always,
Sister Sulz
이설지 자매
Korea From a Giraffes eye view:
The
sun was shining and it was beautiful today I thought about you and hope
whenever the Sunshine's on you, you remember that I love you and so do
these crazy Korean people!! Do yourself a favor and go out to great
Korean food this week! ( It wont be as good, but Kimchi always makes
people happy!) I love you girl! Stay strong.
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