Week 4, Transfer 9
God Will ALWAYS Make A Way
The heading of this blog is really
special to me and I have a strong testimony of it. I'll explain it a little bit
later. So this last week, the only words I can think to describe it would be
HECTIC. Absolutely hectic. That start of last week seems so long ago. We had 1
exchange with Sister Schmidt and Sister Morris. Sister Schmidt came here with
me. We had loads of fun together. We taught Lee and Alice, visited less-actives,
had correlation on Tuesday night, visited with members. We did a lot. Then on
Wednesday we swapped back over before both of our District meetings. On
Thursday we went on another exchange to Huddersfield. (One of) the sisters who
usually go on exchange there is having health problems, so they asked us if we
could go on exchange with Sister Hedstrom and Sister Wiborny. It was all good
fun :) Sister Wiborny is from Germany. She is like a German Buddha. So patient,
kind, powerful, sweet, and loving. She is quite shy and so is Sister Hedstrom, so they're pretty much the most gentle
and cute companionship ever. While we were on that exchange we got a call from
a sister missionary needing help, so we had to take about 20 minutes to talk to
both her and her companion and tried to give them support and help.
Exhausting.
On Saturday we saw Rachel (recent
convert) and helped her with her talk for Stake Conference that weekend. We had
Stake Conference (Sat session) on Saturday night. It was so so good. The First
Presidency asked if the theme for the Sat eve session to be on Hastening The
Work of Salvation through prayer, faith and the help of individuals, families,
and friends. Last stake conference was also on Hastening The Work of Salvation.
It was so powerful. Sister Decker spoke (future General Relief Society
President. Seriously) and Elder Amundsen, one of the APs spoke too. They
represented all the full-time missionaries fantastically!
Sunday session of stake conference
was also powerful. They had a variety of speakers and topics. Although I LOVED
Sunday session and it was great and I felt the spirit strongly and took loads
of notes, my highlight was probably this:
The SIMCOCK'S!!!!!!!!!!!! I also saw
President and Sister Slater (Branch President of Skipton branch). President
Slater hugged me haha bless him. Also, Naomi Simcock is getting married!!!! I
am just SO excited. I may or may not have cried when she told me...
Before or even on your mission, you
don't realize fully the connection and the love that you will have for people.
I was lucky and able to be reunited with one of my most favourite mission
families and I realised how much I love them! And then I realised how much
Heavenly Father loves them and loves all his children. It's powerful to
experience a love like that for people that a year ago you could pass on the
street and not even notice them. So I love this family. That's official. And
I'm SO happy for Naomi!!!! It was a GREAT day for me :) I do miss Skipton on
days like that!
I also was able to see Patsy and her
sister Maggie who both came to Stake Conference. They're adorable :) Patsy is
still Patsy and Maggie is still Maggie and I love them both!
So yep! Then Sunday evening we went
and saw Aaron. Aaron is a champion. We LOVE teaching him. He is the happiest
person you will ever meet. The lesson was so so powerful. We just let the
spirit guide it and it went so smoothly and great.
I've been able to REALLY give the reins
to the Lord at this point in my mission. I can speak clearly and simply and I
say things that are inspired, but it's not me. It's 100% not me. It's the Holy
Ghost. I know that. And I am SO grateful to be able to be an instrument in the
Lord's hands in that way. Seriously. The gratitude for the spirit and for Heavenly
Father and Jesus Christ I've felt this week has been immense. It's crazy. I
just love it!
I have grown a lot it feels like in
the last week. It's kind of weird actually. But this week I can actually mark
my progress. First time my whole mission. Alma 26:12 though, always.
So, before I go I want to explain the
title of this blog. Sister Zurcher shared this section of a talk by President
Hinckley and it's stuck with me and I love it.
"What marvelous things happen when
men walk with faith in obedience to that which is required of them! I recently
read the interesting story of Commander William Robert Anderson, the naval
officer who took the submarine Nautilis beneath the polar ice from the Pacific
Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean, a daring and dangerous feat. It recounted a number
of other exploits of similar danger. It concluded with a statement that he
carried in his wallet a tattered card that had on it these words, which I
commend to you:
I believe I am always divinely
guided.
I believe I will always take
the right road.
I believe God will always make
a way where there is no way.
I too believe that God will always
make a way where there is no way. I believe that if we will walk in obedience
to the commandments of God, if we will follow the counsel of the priesthood, he
will open a way even where there appears to be no way."
I thirdly believe that God will ALWAYS
always always make a way where this is none. I've seen it with this whole mega
baptism event on Thursday. Sister Zurcher and I, 3 or 4 weeks ago, were doing
weekly planning, and we had Tango and Aaron as investigators, we decided to go
ahead a few weeks until this week and put in goals for 2 people baptized and
confirmed. Tango ended up not meeting with us anymore, and Aaron has a pretty
major concern and who knows how long it will be until or if he ever gets
baptized. BUT, we got that referral for Lee and Alice and their 5 kids. We
scheduled Alice and Kera for baptism for this week. Lee still is trying to quit
smoking. We will reach the goals we set weeks ago. We didn't know what was
going to happen, we just set them in faith, and a miracle happened.
That's what happens when you set
goals in faith and do your best. Heavenly Father won't hold back his help, ever.
He loves us. Why would he? That's my thought for the day :) He will always make
a way where there is no way. I testify to you all of that you guyyysssss.
Keep it real! Thank you to everyone
who reads this blog as well. Appreciate the prayers and love and support! All of
us missionaries out here definitely need it!
Love you all.
Sister Kuhn xxxxxx
I HIT MY YEAR MARK ON THE 6TH OF JUNE!!!! We were on exchange and the sisters surprised me as I got out of the bathroom with balloons and sticky notes. It was sosososossosososo cute.
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