Family and Friends

Dear Family and Friends!

     I don't know where the weeks have gone! Easter is Sunday and this transfer is already half over! I didn't think time could or would speed up any more than it already has but I have been proven wrong! This week has been a good one! First we started out and we got to do service which was fun! We were working at a small thrift shop sorting through their donations. Then as the week went on we went out and visited with people. But, there are a few instances that stand out to me this week. The first was Thursday night we got a text from a Less Active that we have been working with asking us if we could come by the next day. She said she had been having a rough time.

      So, of course we did! But, I was so grateful that she felt she could turn to us. She has been going through a rough situation with no family near-by and the fact that she was comfortable turning to us in a rough time made me feel so happy! She has been trying to come back to church but has been facing many challenges along the way. But, to meet with someone who wouldn't even let us in her door when I first came to this area and to see her tell us what a great support the church has been for her was such a tender mercy and a blessing.

     The other instance was we were meeting with a less active youth from our ward who stopped letting us come and then about a week or so ago told us we could start coming back. We were not sure what we should share and so we planned to share Elder Uchtdorfs most recent Mormon message on bullying. Even then we walked into the lesson unsure as to why we had felt the need to share that particular message. However, after not even 5 minutes of being in that house and teaching her she brought up a concern of bullying and things that she was going through. It made me so very grateful that our Heavenly Father is guiding this work and not me. He knows so much better than I could ever know what people need to hear and how they need to hear it!!

     In 3rd Nephi chapter 27 verse one we have an instance where the disciples had a question about what the church should be called and in the verse it states "it came to pass that the disciples were gathered together and were united in mighty prayer and fasting." if we continue to read we learn that Jesus appeared unto the disciples and answered their question of what the church should be called. I thought of this scripture because at the end of this same chapter it talks about how we must ask the Father for the things that we need. There have been so many times so far on my mission where I have felt stuck and I just didn't know what a persons needs where or what I could teach them. But then we would go into the appointment with  what we had planned in studies that morning and it would turn out to be exactly what that person needed to hear. Even when my companion and I felt stuck and like we were not making any headway the Lord was always and is always very involved in his work.

      Sorry this letter is so random today... I love you all so much and I know  that God truly does answer prayers!!

Love,

Sister Bice