Anyway. We decided to showed her and her husband the "The Restoration" DVD. It's like 20 minutes and just goes over the life of Joseph Smith. It is absolutely beautiful. The church is amazing. After we watched it, the spirit was SO strong. It made it easy for us to share with them our testimonies. He says he will come to church next week so we are really hoping he can. This ward is SO good at fellowshipping and helping the people we teach feel welcome, so I really hope he can come next week and feel the spirit at church.
During the movie though, it has a part where Joseph is harvesting, with a sickle and it kind of hit me a little bit. I wish missionary work was all harvesting and having baptisms every week. It's not though and takes a long time to plant and then to grow testimonies. It is a long process and I am learning patience. But this week I have strongly felt that maybe I am here to strengthen the other missionaries around me so that they will be ready to harvest other people. It is kind of hard and the blessings definitely are not immediate, but I really think that that is why I am in this area. One of the sisters from the MTC sent us all this quote...
“Our work will be light and easy to bear if we will depend on the Lord and work.
Don’t worry about being successful. We are going to be successful—there is no doubt about it. The Lord has sent us to earth at the time of harvest. He does not expect us to fail. He has called no one to this work to fail. He expects us to succeed.”-President Ezra Taft Benson
I know that the work I do here, whether in the apartment or out will not be a failure. I know that I just need to rely more on Heavenly Father and learn how to apply the strengthening and enabling power of the Atonement in my life so that I will know how to use it better after my mission.
I love you all and hope you have a great week!!!!
Love,
Sister Mecham
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| Handstands and house pants! |
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| Boku on Sunday afternoons! |
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| Pedicures from our cute ward members!!! |
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