Week 77 - Easy & Light

I feel extremely grateful to be here right now, I'm grateful for the experience God is letting me have. I feel like these past 2 transfers, God has just been so kind to me and I've just been surrounded by the most incredible people and so because of that I just feel much joy and peace. I'm so so so so thankful for the missionaries and the members and the friends

The schedule is just so filled up with so many meaningful things and I'm so glad that most of my mission I WASNT as busy as I am now, because I can look at all the crazy miracles happening with people progressing and say: wow I'm so glad that God is being so kind to me and letting me live this right now. Sometimes I feel like I'm just floating on a cloud to the end

Saturday night at 9PM I'm cutting an apple. Then I'm like WAIT. Aduché needs a ride to church. DIDN'T MATHIEU SAY HE LIVES IN ST FRANÇOIS ?! So we texted him and he was SO down to pick him up?? Neither of them are members, SO COOL. But then there was a medical emergency with Mathieus dad so he couldn't. RIIIIIP

A sailing family from Oregon showed up on Sunday (they're members) and what the mom said to me was direct answers to prayers. 

I took notes, lemme share:

"What if there aren't boxes to check off what it it's just a really great experience?" 

I also got smacked in the face with revelation as she was expressing how there is NEVER a time to put your passions away.

"When I give Him everything, I think I need to give him my full mesure of joy" she explained how sometimes there's push back from the culture when we want to do unconventional things. But when God asks us to give Him everything, He means our fulness of joy. Give Him our interests, our passions, our talents. He doesn't ask us to put them away or stomp out our dreams so we can fit into a cookie cutter lifestyle!! The gospel was given to support children of God, not the other way around. The church is NOT a limiting thing, don't let certain culture fool you

My fulness of joy looks different than the next person's. Maybe theirs is getting married at 18 and living the most simple life possible. That's good if that's what supports them in their journey to becoming the most them they could possibly be. But for someone else, maybe it looks different. Because their personality is different so their fulness of joy looks different. That's something else she said: "Heavenly Father uses all of our personalities". If I'm a stayer, He would want me to stay. If I'm a goer, He would want me to go. Covenants simply bind us to the person who will help us become the most us we can be, they don't try to change who we are or limit us. God is happy when you do the uncomfortable thing that allows you to dig into your passion. HE LOVES THAT. Don't "bury the talents"! 

"Then, at length, when I’ve completed

All you sent me forth to do,

With your mutual approbation

Let me come and dwell with you."-O My Father

I really do feel like I have been filled with His love, even unto the consuming of my flesh. Very grateful.