believing christ
wow! another week in france. I have officially been "wearing the badge" for 3 months and one day. It's amazing that i have been doing this for that long!
What a great week I had. First of all it was soooo busy. Monday I had to go to Nice to work on my papers to be legal. Tuesday went to Monoco! Pretty cool huh! Saturday, we went hiking in the Alps. And a million miracles in between.
First of all, I had to play the senior companion for one day this week. And my task was to make 3 phone calls in French. This sounds like reality tv or something. my task...anyway. I was so nervous for that but dun dun dun...I did it and i understood all three calls. The members out here are so nice and patient with me! Miracle #1.
#2 we spent an entire day trying to find members that never come to church. We went to the last house on our list and rang the little buzzer thing. This women lives in an apartment building. so you know those little things at the bottom that the people have to buzz to open the door. Well she let us in but we didn't know which floor she lived on. So we ended up leaving her a note. The doorman lady told us that our member never wanted to be visited and that we should not come back. The bishop told us that he has been trying to visit her for years and can never set up a meeting. But guess what? she called us! and we have an appointment with her this week! AMAZING!!!
OK so enough news. The thing that has been really on my mind this week is something that i read in a book called Believeing Christ by Stephen E Robinson.
It starts out with the great delima. God allows no sin in his presence right? Cause he's perfect. Makes sense. Here's the problem. We sin. We are not perfect.(romans 3:23) Even Peter the Rock felt this problem when he told the Lord that he was unworthy to be his servent and to move on in luke 5:8. I feel like that all the time. I can't be a missionnary. I can't share the message of the gospel. I'm retarded. I'm not good at french. I don't know the scriptures well enough. I'm not good enough. Move on Lord. I'm not perffect. I'm never going to be perfect. Pick someone else.
and then BAM! Our Heavenly Father knows our weakness and our inability to be perfect on our own. Here's the best part, the good news, the gospel. We don't have to be!!!! We don't have to be the best missionnary in France. We don't have to be the best french speaker. We don't have to stress our brains out with food storage, relief society lessons, scripture reading, blah blah blah. there is no way to be perfect on our own at this stuff.
News flash. that is why we have a savior! The difference is many believe in christ. who he is. what he was. the fact that he is the son of God. But we don't belive Christ! We don't believe in his message. It is only through him that we can overcome our imperfections and our inabiltities.
The book says "not only must we believe who he says he is, we must believe what he says he can do."
He can make us what we need to be. We must read our scriptures. We must try. But only through his grace and mercy can we overcome this great delima!
Love you!
Shai
What a great week I had. First of all it was soooo busy. Monday I had to go to Nice to work on my papers to be legal. Tuesday went to Monoco! Pretty cool huh! Saturday, we went hiking in the Alps. And a million miracles in between.
First of all, I had to play the senior companion for one day this week. And my task was to make 3 phone calls in French. This sounds like reality tv or something. my task...anyway. I was so nervous for that but dun dun dun...I did it and i understood all three calls. The members out here are so nice and patient with me! Miracle #1.
#2 we spent an entire day trying to find members that never come to church. We went to the last house on our list and rang the little buzzer thing. This women lives in an apartment building. so you know those little things at the bottom that the people have to buzz to open the door. Well she let us in but we didn't know which floor she lived on. So we ended up leaving her a note. The doorman lady told us that our member never wanted to be visited and that we should not come back. The bishop told us that he has been trying to visit her for years and can never set up a meeting. But guess what? she called us! and we have an appointment with her this week! AMAZING!!!
OK so enough news. The thing that has been really on my mind this week is something that i read in a book called Believeing Christ by Stephen E Robinson.
It starts out with the great delima. God allows no sin in his presence right? Cause he's perfect. Makes sense. Here's the problem. We sin. We are not perfect.(romans 3:23) Even Peter the Rock felt this problem when he told the Lord that he was unworthy to be his servent and to move on in luke 5:8. I feel like that all the time. I can't be a missionnary. I can't share the message of the gospel. I'm retarded. I'm not good at french. I don't know the scriptures well enough. I'm not good enough. Move on Lord. I'm not perffect. I'm never going to be perfect. Pick someone else.
and then BAM! Our Heavenly Father knows our weakness and our inability to be perfect on our own. Here's the best part, the good news, the gospel. We don't have to be!!!! We don't have to be the best missionnary in France. We don't have to be the best french speaker. We don't have to stress our brains out with food storage, relief society lessons, scripture reading, blah blah blah. there is no way to be perfect on our own at this stuff.
News flash. that is why we have a savior! The difference is many believe in christ. who he is. what he was. the fact that he is the son of God. But we don't belive Christ! We don't believe in his message. It is only through him that we can overcome our imperfections and our inabiltities.
The book says "not only must we believe who he says he is, we must believe what he says he can do."
He can make us what we need to be. We must read our scriptures. We must try. But only through his grace and mercy can we overcome this great delima!
Love you!
Shai
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