....Well not
much else exciting has happened this week... We had some YSA invitations
to hand out, but the list they gave us to go off of was over a year
old, so half of the people on it weren't even living there anymore haha,
but at the very last house we visited we knocked on the door, and a
lady answered and immediately she was just like "Oh come on in!" and so
we went in, and she sat us down, and we found out that she was a less
active! Her son was gone to California for school, but we had a really
wonderful conversation with her and talked with her for a long time! It
was really sad when she said she wasn't sure if she would ever come back
to church, but we have a plan and we can't wait to go back and see her!
When we were leaving, she gave us her number and invited us to come
over for lunch sometime so we could talk more! When we were in Ward
Council the next morning, we found out that no one had been able to see
that less active in a long time, and we were able to talk to them about
her! It was a miracle, and we are so thankful that we got to take part
in that! 
I love it here in New Jersey! It is
so exciting to be here! Can I tell you of a revelation I had this week?
So I have been really stressed out about how to enjoy being a missionary
but not get comfortable to the point where I am just content with the
work that I am doing. So the other night I was thinking about what to
write in my journal about, and the spirit prompted me to start writing
about mothers. So I did. I began to write about how mothers sacrifice of
not only their physical energy, but also their emotional energy to
truly help their children. About how they epitomize keeping their
baptismal covenants to mourn with those that mourn, and comfort those
that stand in need of comfort. They truly do represent Christ and His
witness of His name as they expend all their energies to give their
love. Then I related this to myself and how as a missionary, it takes a
lot of effort to love the people here, especially when those you teach
and spend half of your week with use their agency to make bad decisions.
It hurts! It takes a LOT to feel so much and open your heart to hurt!
But I realized that that is exactly what a missionary is called to do.
As a representative of Jesus Christ we are especially called to mourn
and comfort and uplift and strengthen, but that also implies that we
know how to do that, which means that we must know how they feel.
Sometimes I have no idea what it feels like to be an investigator, but
Jesus Christ does, and He knows how to succor them. He has the ability
to enlarge hearts to have the capacity to feel. That is what a
successful missionary is! If I want to find the most joy in the work
here, it must needs be that I feel the sorrow too! Oh yeah.... its all
comin together. I could go on and on and on.... but I should probably
get off my high horse now before I get bucked haha, next week I will
talk more about the scriptures that came to mind as well.
Anyways, I love you all so much! Heavenly Father loves you even more though.
Love, Sister Baine!
P.S.
So last transfer I got an award for being a green dot driver!!! Aren't
you so proud of me, Mom?! You can put this on the fridge. That was
before I got 2 aggressive driving marks in the last couple of weeks....
oops haha sorry, Mom... hopefully I can still drive and they don't kick
me out...
P.P.S. Chris is scheduled to get baptized this Saturday!!! Hopefully He makes it!!!
No comments:
Post a Comment