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| "Borrowing clothes...I looked like a business executive. Haha! And I PROMISE that I didn´t wear those shoes out-just for the pic...haha! It´s actually the first time I've used those shoes since coming on the mission." |
*Sister Little's companion has been struggling with a foot problem that makes walking very painful. At a doctor's appointment this week, Sister Ribas was told to rest the foot for 20 days, so they are not able to be out working as much as they would like to be, which has been hard.
This has been quite the two weeks of LEARNING for me. It´s amazing how on a mission you are shown SO CLEARLY all of your weaknesses. Wow. I have fasted and prayed a lot about the situation here, and I'm learning more and more the literal exercises I need to do to develop more patience, more charity, more strength. I need to focus more on the Atonement. I´m the kind of person that likes to look at all the details in front of me, come up with a solution, and then go full speed ahead until the problem or task is solved and completed, but I´m learning a lot here on the mission, that I am very small and very incapable of many things. I´m learning a lot that I need to SLOW DOWN and let the Lord LEAD me.
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| *This is our family mission statement, which hangs in our home, and has been repeated by our family every week for nearly 10 years. The statement actually reads "seek out". Not a huge difference, but so interesting that the Spirit would plant the word "reach" in her heart when she needed it this week. |
I was thinking this morning about the mission statement that my family has. We repeat it together every Family Home Evening at home, and I was repeating it to myself this morning, and every word really hit me. "The Little Family Mission Statement: I will give, love, serve, and share. I will reach out and do those things my Heavenly Father needs me to do, yoking myself with my Savior, Jesus Christ."
Really hit me. I need to REACH OUT, and not just expect to find comfort for my own problems. I need to yoke myself with Christ, because a lot of the time, I simply don´t have the strength to extend my arm, but He DOES have the strength, AND He knows way better than I what to do with that extended hand to help the person on the other end.
I will focus on using the Atonement to change me. I will pray that the Lord uses me in ways that I can´t see yet to fill my purpose here. I need to find my role, my purpose, but maybe it´s simply learning about the Atonement, and letting Him do the rest. I´m very honestly grateful for the things I am learning.
This Christmas, I want everyone to look for the little miracles in your life. I heard this week that a miracle is the correct application or true and eternal principles. They come in big ways and little teeny tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiny ways, so FIND THEM! Make it a game, whatever it takes!
And even more than finding the miracles in
your life, BE THE MIRACLE THAT SOMEONE IS NEEDING. This will change you. This will make you more like Christ. He is our miracle, and He makes
miracles, and He makes us miracles. Let Him be your miracle this
Christmas. Love you all!!! Até!
Descubra Por Quê.
Discover Why.
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| "Our very clean apartment!" |
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| "Oh! And I was gluing things in my journal these last few days, and I found sticky notes from the CTM.......hahahahaha! Translate that sentence! " *translation reads "I know that Jesus Christ helps make me a woman." I believe she was shooting for "helps me become better". The joys of learning a new language!* |
