Kelli notes: "It's already September!! Time is moving fast! Yeah, time is a weird thing on the mission... days feel like weeks, weeks feel like hours, and months feel like blinks. The trick is to stay busy, and then time will fly!"
Sister Heidi Bonham:
I think for Heidi, this past week seemed like months. She had a hard and discouraging week. As she said, "The mission is definitely humbling. :)" But, she is learning that with hard weeks comes the great opportunity to learn to rely completely on the Lord. "The mission is hard. We just have to keep going in faith. My mission president described working in an area as a motor boat. When you first start up the boat, the engine is PUSHING against the water so hard and the boat is barely moving. But, once the boat gets going, it is smooth sailing. I'm not saying that it will be rainbows from here on out, but if we keep working and don't stop, our efforts will pay off."
Missionaries learn important lessons that will help them throughout their lives. It is amazing what the Lord can do with these young missionaries!
Here is Heidi and her companion and a friend:
Elder Christofferson's words at last conference made me think of the Bonham Sisters: "The greatest service we can provide to others in this life, beginning with those of our own family, is to bring them to Christ through faith and repentance so they may experience His Redemption--peace and joy now and immortality and eternal life in the world to come. The work of our missionaries is a magnificent expression of the Lord's redeeming love. As His authorized messengers, they offer the incomparable blessings of faith in Jesus Christ, repentance, baptism, and the gift of the Holy Ghost, opening the way to spiritual rebirth and redemption." Keep up the good work Kelli and Heidi!
ReplyDeleteYes, Judy! And that is what the missionaries offered me many years ago. Thank goodness I accepted the offer!
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