For most of my posts I've tried to focus and share a miracle of the week because the good always outweighs the bad, and the Lord blesses us everyday!! It's the best thing to be a missionary - but it's not always smooth sailing.
I think being a missionary is like being on a sports team. Pick your favorite sport - surely it applies to most of them. :) As a missionary, I'm part of the Lord's team and His team consists of my companion, the branch, the other missionaries in the mission (or even around the world), my mission president, my family, the general authorities, and other members. Everyone on the Lord's team wants to achieve the same thing: we all want to "invite others to come unto Christ, by helping them receive the restored gospel, through faith in Jesus Christ and His Atonement, repentance, baptism, receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost and enduring to the end." Each person has a little bit different position and responsibility on the playing field, but we can't be successful if we don't work together. Sometimes our team does everything we can to win the victory. And we know we will in the end. But some of the games of life are not always won. Sometimes we lose. Things don't go as planned. The Lord blesses us with right circumstances, with the Spirit, and with His help, but the one thing the Lord can't control is our agency. We can not force anyone to do anything and the Lord can't either. That's what's so great about our life on earth is that we have that gift to learn and progress! Sometimes our own choices and others' choices just don't bring the victory we may have hoped for. But just because we don't win every single game, and things don't always go perfectly, doesn't mean we stop playing! We must continue to do our best, to play our position, and listen to what our coach tells us to do. If we do, and we continue to follow the Lord, the wins will always outweigh the losses. That's just Sister B's two cents I guess. :)
This has been especially evident in the work this week. There is "opposition in all things" but that is proof that the work is true. If it weren't, Satan wouldn't be fighting so hard against it. I'm grateful for the lessons I'm learning and the privilege it is to play on the Lord's team. He really is hastening His work.
This week we received an unexpected phone call from a less active sister who wanted to meet with us after years of not coming to church! What a miracle that was! We're going to see her this week and we're grateful for her courage.
Scripture of the week: "Now in this case the Lamanites did fight exceedingly... Nevertheless, the Nephites were inspired by a better cause, for they were not fighting for monarchy nor power but they were fighting for their homes and their liberties, and their wives and their children, and their all, yea, for their rites of worship and their church. And they were doing that which they felt was the duty which they owed to their God." -Alma 43:43,45-46
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