title: Life is like...
missionary work. I guess
missionary work is life and life is very much still happening on a
mission, but I never understood and still dont understand that quote
"Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're going to
get." Because you know exactly what you're going to get in a boxof
chocolate. You're going to get chocolate. They even have a little sheet
of paper that explains exactly what every chocolate in that box is. But
if you really want to know what IS suprising--it's missionary work.
I mean, we can have the best
weeks planned, and then everything falls through. The most positive
people can turn their backs on what they've learned, and the most looked
forward to days can be the most disappointint--but then on the other
hand, you can have absolutely nothing planned and then end a week with
seven new people wanting to learn about the gospel, four people who want
to be baptized and members who haven't come to church a single time in a
year (who've been meeting with the missionaries pretty much weekly
since then and yet making no progress) who decides she wants to go to
the temple and makes the decision that she is going to do everything
that it takes to get there.
That's what it's about. It's
about enduring the hard times to get to see the miracles. It's about
having faith through those times of disappointment and despair, and then
just when you think you don't know how it's going to get any
better--the sun comes up--and the hand of the Lord is seen. I have a
testimony that things sometimes have to fell apart for other things to
fall into place. I don't know the answers to everything, but I do know
that what Sheri Dew said and that what I stated in my call acceptance
letter was true: "Do you want to be happy? and I mean, really and truly
happy? Then nurture somone along the path that leads to the temple, and
ultimately to Jesus Christ."
I know that Jesus Christ can heal us and walk with us--on water, through fire, and under burdens. His love is perfect.
I love you all!
Tot ziens!
xoxo
Zuster Hoff
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