Date: August 15, 2016
Location: Nancy
Companion: Soeur Petersen
Hey Everyone!
Sorry for this short email. My entire weekly just got
deleted and I already didn't have a lot of time today. We were at a ward picnic
getting hosed down by little kids with water guns! Always a good time! They
think it is just the best thing in the world to shoot you and roll on the floor
laughing because of it. Haha So that leaves everyone laughing and before you
know it, there is no time to do anything. But still I great way to spend Pday.
:)
Me and Soeur Petersen are finally getting settled into this
city that is so new to both of us. It is really fun to be able to meet the members
and to love them and get to know them and to help them be involved with
missionary work. They aren't the MOST excited to help out, but I blame that one
on vacances, when everyone and their dog is out of the country for two months.
BUT with the members that are here, they are great, and I am making a new ward
family soon enough.
I do want to share one super cool experience that me and
Soeur Petersen had this last week. I am trying really really hard to love these
people. And it started really rough. I wanted to love them, and I tried to love
them, and I did, but collectively we could say. And so me and Soeur Petersen
fixed a goal. And we started to pray in front of EVERY DOOR that we knocked on.
That is a lot of prayers, and knocking doors is still hard, and there is still
a lot of rejection and lots of people who don't listen. But I have noticed
something in these last few days that is different. I really do love these
people. Every doorstep stood on, we pray. We pray for whoever lives on the
other side, the ability to love them, the ability for the Spirit to hit their
heart, the ability to know what to say.
And there was this one doorstep, and it was my turn to pray.
And I prayed. For the ability to love whoever lived on the other side, the ability
for me to listen, and to know what to say. And that is when we met Gilbert.
Gilbert lost his wife a few months ago. And he gave us his testimony, that he
knew that he would be with her again one day. And then he looked at us, and he
said, "I believe that I will see her again one day, but I don't know how.
Do you think that you have the answer, and will you share it with me
please?" It is safe to say that whatever I was able to say wasn't me. I
know that the Spirit touched this old man, and I am so happy for the
oppurtunity that we had to testify on that doorstep. I really did have a love
for him the moment that he opened the door, and I saw this little old man,
willing to listen, and looking for an answer.
And all it took was looking and trying and praying to have
this love, that I thought would be so difficult to find! But I am realizing
that to find the ability to love, it is really simple. Because this man is a
child of God, and I know how much God loves me, and so I know how much He loves
him. Gilbert was a miracle, and I am so excited to see what comes from this :)
We are so busy and are working so hard. Time ticks faster
and faster every day and in every way. and I am always going to be a
missionary, but I will not always have these experiences like I had the other
day with Gilbert. God needs missionaries. Who are willing to go out and work
hard, pray, and then work some more. And so I want to give Him that with these
9 months that I have left. I want to give Him all that I am, and say,
"Take me, Send me, Use me, and I will find those who are prepared."
And the only way to do that is to work. They don't always come running to us,
but the Spirit is real, and it touches their hearts, and they listen. We have
something special.
I love these people, and I am working so hard and having fun
:) I love you all.
Soeur Trotter
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