Alrighty, so basically that is
literally how i felt on Saturday after we went and visited someone. When people
know that the only thing that is going to make them happy is the gospel, and
they spiritually starve themselves, I just don't know how to handle it. But
most days I manage my frustration in a less-destructive way(:
So I have been having MAJOR anxiety about coming home in 5
months. But yesterday after a talk given my an incredible RM, i feel a little
bit better about my life now, and after the mission. He said he had been
adjusting just fine. and that he was just as happy now as he was on his
mission. Of course after sacrament I had to go and ask him "uhh,
how?" so i did. He said to just stay busy and keep reading your scriptures
every day. So for some reason, even though that's such a simple answer, it
really calmed me down a lot about coming home in 5 months. But for now, I'm
still not thinking about it, but it did give me a greater sense of peace about
it. In his talk he shared this incredible story about this little boy who was
asked by Jesus Christ in a dream to go out and push this big huge rock every
single day. The boy was initially so excited and he went out every day and
pushed with everything he had. Over time the boy grew tired, but he still would
go out every day and try to push the rock. Finally one day he cried out in
prayer and asked Heavenly Father why it was so hard. Why he needed him to push
this rock. Jesus Christ appeared to him in a dream again that night and asked
him why he was so sad. The boy told him that he was so discouraged. He had been
pushing this rock for such a long time, days and weeks and even months had
passed, and it still hadn't moved. Jesus Christ told him that he had never
asked him to move the rock, he had only asked him to push it. He told the boy
to look at his hands and arms. He had gotten stronger, and his hands had gotten
tougher. Jesus Christ told him that He would move the rock, He just wanted to
make the boy become stronger. This is how I've felt since I've gotten to Sooke
in a way. We haven't seen any baptisms yet, no one has really even been that
close to it, but as I'm still trying to push that rock, I can feel myself
getting stronger, and I know that when it's in God's time, He will move that
rock for me, He just needs me to get stronger right now. I know that God gives
us trials for a reason. He needs us to become stronger and turn us into the
people He needs us to be for the rest of our lives. I love this gospel so much
and I am so grateful for the hard things God gives us to make us stronger.
Love you always,
sister brittany anne larsen(:
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| -cutest family. H.'s(: |
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| -sat outside thrifty foods for the BC Food Drive on
Saturday(: we melted. |
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| -Me and my District Leader, Sister Dexter(: |
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| -Sister Hans cute encouragement to H., trying to live the
word of wisdom! |
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| -most gorgeous sunset ever. #ilovesooke |
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| -The biggest spider ever that i had to kill last night in
our apartment. #terrifying |
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