Well, What a good week! God is a God of miricles and when we do what he wants and show him that we will willingly follow his will he blesses us with these miricles!!
and (satan) came before me, saying—Behold, here am I, send me, I will be thy son, and I will redeem all mankind, that one soul shall not be lost, and surely I will do it; wherefore give me thine honor. But, behold, my Beloved son, which was my Beloved and Chosen from the beginning, said unto me—Father, thy will be done, and the glory be thine forever.(jesus the christ.chpt 2 4th paragraph)
As this shows jesus said, in modern day language, ill do the plan you already have set up. he didnt say he is a plan that i thought would be a good idea bucause he already knew and trusted in god that he had the perfect plan. so jesus said that he would be the means by which gods plan was possible. that is the essence of following the will of god.
so as we willing say to god i will be the means by which you carry out your plan, therefor submitting our will to that of god, or in other words saying that we will be his hands. as we do this we will start to see the blessing we see in the scriptures, that are promised for doing this, flow into our lives. and this is what i saw this week. im not saying that i did it perfectly. because i still have a long way to go. but i have see the blessings for my efforts!
i would like to share two of these blessings with you.
First, we were walking to an appointment that we had and we saw this man and wife carrying in grocerys and so we offered to help they very hasitantly let us help which is a miricle in and of its self! we helped them bring them in when i remembered that we had helped this same lady in this same house move her refridgerator to a different room which consisted of taking it out and around the house. i asked her how is the new place for the refridgerator working out and she looked at me weirdly and then she got this funny look of emberesment and relife on her face and said oh you guys help me move that!! how are you?? im so sorry i didnt recogonize you! they both at that moment just lossened up and said come in come in!! we went in and they gave us juice and were so nice. we didnt have much time and so we shared a scripture on hope in ether 12:4 and shared a little about the book of mormon! they said ok call us and we will plan a dinner and see when we have more time to chat!!
second, we had a ward council which is also a little miricle!! its been three months since the last one. my first week in the ward. and in this ward council someone made a comment about some twins in the ward who come every week with their grandma and are 8 about to turn nine and they have been wanting to get baptised but no one has really taken action. the dad is less active so now that theyll be nine the baptisim is in charge of the missoinaries. ill take action i said!! we went to the dads house yesterday and talked to him very frankly about the situation and he is 100% ok with it. he even agreed to listening to the lessons with his sons!! he said he has felt something inside that he didnt know what it was. so we had him read alma 32 where it talks about the seed.
one other cool experience. yesterday we were walking and i was finding that a lot of things that my comp was doing were anoying me. and to be 100% truthfull i was justified. but i decied to try and be humble. i said a prayer to ask for the lords help and a thought came to my mind. i needed to use the bathroom. we were just passing by the church and what i would usually say would be something like. i need to use the bathroom or were going to stop to use the bathroom. but i thought to say is it ok if we stop to use the bathroom? and he said sure. it was amazing how something so simple made him change his mood so fast. and me change mine! latter i had another impresion to ask would you like to lead this next lesson. he said, um sure. both of our moods change so fast and we were getting along very well. the lesson was supper good and i learned a lot from my comp. the spirit was very strong.
I love my mission! it is changeing me!!!
Love, Elder Groen
