"When
life gives you a lemon…eat it"
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Well I will be the
first one to say it. Don't EVER be sick. EVER. It is awful. It ruins everything
and ruins your will to do anything. It literally is the worst possible thing
that could happen to a missionary...well, except for getting sent home. But I'm
knocking wood on that one haha!
So as you may have
noticed I have been a bit sick the last almost two weeks. It didnt seem bad til
it sucked my energy away and left me a bag of skin and bones on the floor
because I was not able to move or find energy to move haha! I wnated to, but it
was physically difficult. (We
are waiting to hear back on his blood test results any day now…) So I have been inside for about 5 of the 7
days doing nothing on Presidents orders. But, despite what you may be
thinking:
"Oh no he is
sick! He was inside and now has no stories to tell for the week! What will I do
now?"
Well dont yall worry
one sec on that, I got barrels of stuff to tell ya, because despite my physical
weakness the lord supports those that put him first. And that was true this
week.
The big miracle from
this week has some backstory to it. Last November while I was in Tatabánya
I went to Győr where I currently am and was on an exchange with one of the zone
leaders, and we were streeting in this busy downtown area by the duna river.
Well I was still in my training and so this was really good practice to go out
and talk to people alone which was the name of the game at that time, so I went
out guns a blazin and started talking to people, jsut taking shots all over and
hoping somehow one would hit haha! Well I stopped a young couple and we talked
it up and I got all the way to the appointment set up before the zone leader
came in and toopk over the rest cause he knew his schedule better than I did.
Well, those two young people are still investigators that I streeted, and I
went to a lesson saturday to teach them about the commandments, the sabbath day
and how we can draw blessings from god as we obey him, cause since november
they hadnt been to church which is a problem. So we go over there despite my
fatigue and we treach a great lesson about the scriptures, gods love, and I was
sitting in that lesson feeling the spirit work through me, and when the time
came to ask them to church I promised one of them specifically that if they
came to church and put God first that he would excel on his college finals for
his major and that god would give him guided and extra strength to do it. That
he WOULD excel. And when I said that it was so crazy because I knew that I
could make that promise as a representative of Christ and the power that He has
to do that for them. And then the next day they came hahaha! It was insane. Not
insane, but how it should be, and that has never happened before. So to me it
seems insane, but in all reality it wasnt. It was how it should happen. But a
miracle nonetheless.
I would also like to
address a question I have had and my comp has had and I am sure that everyone
that has every lived has had as they try to draw closer to God. A lot of people
and myself wonder "why does it seem as if prayer doesnt work all the time?"
I believe, that when we pray with faith in God and His infinite and eternal
loving plan for us, and that hw knows exactly what Elder hough needs, or that
sally susie needs, or that baker bob needs, that we may not always receive the
answer we want. We wont. But even when we dont receive an answer, it is almost
God's way of helping us to really see the miracles when they come. To be
grateful alwys in his mercy towards us. Because as my companion said once on
this subject "If prayer alwys worked, you would eventually forget."
We hear that all the time in the scriptures about the nephites forgetting
about the goodness of god to them when they received SO many blessings, and
then they became wicked, adn then God had to punish them to remind them of his
power. So I think in a sense, He is helping us to see His hand greater in our
lives by not answering prayers, along with the fact that that prayer may not be
along the lines of Gods will. And its a hard thing to accept, but I know that
as we develop the humility to submit to Gods will and to trust that it is for
our best, then the unaswered prayers wont seem so empty, and they will start to
have meaning in a positive light.
Love yall, I would
just say live the moments of life up to the fullest, and dont stress the future
too hard. Its good to look forward but dont let it scare you, cause then you
miss the now, and then you never get it back. Enjoy the now!
Szeretlek Benneteket!
Hough Elder
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