Hello beauties,
What a wonderful job I have being a missionary for the one true church on the earth today! What a calling I am so fortunate to have as being a representative of Jesus Christ! I get to see miracles, big, small, both easily recognized and very very easily overlooked, every day for only 18 months. Now I only have 12 months left and I can't believe it. I wish I could extend until the end of forever, but we all want what we can't have, don't we.
This week was really wonderful. Caserta is still Thriving! We had so many wonderful things happen here this week, I literally can't wipe the tour guide Barbie smile off my face as I am writing this. So many precious, wonderful miracles each and every day!
Biggest miracle of the week--- ESTER CAME to CHURCH. For all THREE hours. I've never been so happy on my mission until looking over at her being super surprised at how we take the sacrament, then giggling at the old ladies belting their guts out during the hymns and just generally being a bit stuck in culture shock. But what happened before that, was quite crazy. As we all know, happy endings take some work to accomplish.
We had to walk to pick her up to go with her to church because all the members who have cars couldn't give her a ride because of ward council. So we walked. And walked. And walked. Finally got to her street. She said she lived in 81. We saw 6. So we finally finally got to 81, and ester comes out on her balcony in her pajamas still and tells us we are crazy that we walked so far to get her. And then after waiting a solid fifteen minutes for her to put her clothes on, and Sorella Hess almost having a panic attack because we were going to be late, and I was doing my best to keep my cool because I was just grateful she even woke up on time, we began walking back. But then Ester was horrified that we might have to walk the 3 MILES we had walked that morning to get to her. But luckily a saintly member came speeding to save the day and we arrived just in the nick of time to take the sacrament. It was truly a miracle. And the story ended happily so that's good ;) now she just has to stop smoking, and then she can be baptized. But she is so cute and fun and we love her to bits.
All that happened with that morning got me thinking. Maybe Christ is just like that. He is just waiting there in his Humble Honda Civic idling just down the block, waiting to pick us up and get us to where we need to go on time. And maybe sometimes we are too scared to too prideful or too obsessed and enthralled with our own world and our own problems that we forget that all we need to do is ask him to take us where we need to go, and he will. That is what the atonement, all the pain and terrible things he suffered for us, are for. He suffered our sins. Our flaws. Our fears and our weaknesses. He already walked all the miles for us. We don't need to re walk them again, that's pointless. We just have to ask him to come get us. To bring us back to where we need to be. His way is the short cut. Our way is the long way. And we don't need to go the Long way around for everything. He created a shortcut, an easier way, for a reason. It's because we aren't strong enough to walk everywhere he did, or to do everything he has done. He was the only one strong enough, that's why he was chosen to do it. And he isn't asking us to be him, or to have some kind of impossible strength to bear these incredible burdens and still be standing. No. His purpose is to make them lighter, to help carry the weight we cannot bear. Because we are not perfect, yet, and so we need someone who is to guide us to where we need to be. He's already walked the path and arrived at the correct destination. He comes back for each of us when we ask him to. When we are ready to acknowledge that we need his help. His guidance. His hand.
So take his hand. He wants you to make it home safe. And he is going to always be there, with an easier way, whether you choose to take it or not.
Today for PDAY we went to the Amalfi coast. I can't even being to describe how absolutely beautiful it was!!
27 Verily I say, men should be anxiously engaged in a good cause, and do many things of their own free will, and bring to pass much righteousness;
28 For the power is in them, wherein they are agents unto themselves. And inasmuch as men do good they shall in nowise lose their reward.-D&C 58:27-28.
God has made us a really beautiful earth!!
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