This week has been crazy! I never know where
the weeks go until they are already gone.. In fact on Friday I will hit
my mission birthday! It has been 7 months already! I can hardly believe
it! In fact training calls came out today and I have been chosen as a
trainer and I was thinking about the time line of it all and realized I
will be exactly as old as my trainer was!! That is not even possible!! I
remember looking at my trainer when I first came out and thinking she
was so wise and old in the mission I most defiantly don't feel that
way!! Phew! It is going to be a crazy couple of weeks preparing for
transfers. Anyways, as I said this week has been crazy. We meet with an
investigator couple- Max & Katie- and it was funny because this is
the first time that we didn't answer any of her questions. For
everything she asked we told her to read the Book of Mormon and pray
about whether or not Joseph Smith was a prophet. Well, at the end of the
lesson we asked if she had any more questions(she always has another
question) and she surprisingly enough said no that she felt like she had
gotten her answer. Its amazing to see how the Lord works with small and
simple things to give answers to those who are seeking. Then on Tuesday
we had another investigator appointment with a really sweet girl and we
finished and were talking with her and then caught a ride home with
someone heading back from mutual. Well we get home and Sister Kipp turns
to me and asks if I have the phone. Well, I didn't so in a panic we
call (from our neighbors phone) the members who gave us a ride to see if
our phone is in the car.. Of course it wasn't so after much panicking
and another trip to the church we found our phone sitting in the grass
where we had been talking to Alex (our investigator). We were super
grateful that we had found it and that it hadn't been run over (a lot of
people just run over that particular spot on the grass). Other than
that we did a lot of biking and contacting this week which was made
nicer by the fact that the weather here is finally cooling down!! But,
this week I was reading the Luke 6 47-49 Which is the whole wise
man-foolish man story. But, I really really liked the wording it has
here in Luke it says:
"47 Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will shew you to whom he is like:
48
He is like a man which built an house, and digged deep, and laid the
foundation on a rock: And when the flood arose, the stream beat
vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it: for it was founded
upon a rock.
49 But he that heareth, and doeth no, is like a man that without a
foundation built an house upon the earth; against which the stream did
beat vehemently, and immediately it fell' and the ruin of that house was
great."
I have heard this story so many times, in fact I sang the song just
the other day. But I really like the perspective that Luke puts on it.
It is not that the foolish man did build his house above where rock
could probably be found. Its that the wise man dug down deep and found
the rock upon which he could build his house. I think this applies to
the gospel. There are many people who are searching for truth and they
find bits and pieces.. Maybe, traces that there is rock underneath all
of the sand and dirt. Well, when they find these you have two types of
people. Those who are content to just built their faith on the earth
without exploring to see if there is more rock deeper down; and you
have those who search and dig and uncover the many truths until they
find that rock upon which they can built a strong and unshakable
foundation. You also have those who don't really know any better, they
don't know that there is rock further down for those who are willing to
find it. They just assume that the earth upon which they build their
house is the deepest and surest that they are going to find, they don't
know that the floods and tempest that are going to come will have the
power to knock them down and wash away all that they have worked to
build. As a missionary, and I think even before a mission I have seen
that so much in the people we come across. I also think that even though
I have dug and found a foundation to built my house or faith upon I am
still working on the construction. I have learned so much about the
gospel since coming on a mission and I know that I will continue to
learn more. Its crazy to think that I will continue to do so probably
forever. I know that this gospel is true but there is defiantly more
bricks for me to lay and more I can do to built my stronghold of faith! I
love you all and hope that you continue to build you faith and grow
stronger!!
Love,
Sister Bice
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