This week was amazing, aside from getting sick with a cold. But I have been learning and praying for ways that I can feel and recognize the spirit more. One way I have been doing that, like I mentioned last P-day is looking for a tender mercy everyday. This week was full of them and full of answers to prayers! I have felt so much love and peace this week it has been a good sense of overwhelment compared to last week. I had multiple classes and lessons on how we can better recognize the spirit and understand exactly how he speaks to us as individuals.
A few tender mercies were two lessons my companion sister smith and I taught. The first was with our new interested person, Daniel, and during our first lesson with him we talked about the restoration and he also asked a lot of questions. The whole time both my companion and I were calm and able to answer his questions and didn't panic that we weren't sticking to the plan exactly. We both discussed it afterwards and compared it to our first lesson with another interested person the week before and how then we felt like it was confusing and overwhelming but this time it felt right to adjust to his needs and we recognized that as a quiet assurance from the spirit, it was awesome! The second was a lesson we gave last night actually to a member and we were talking about the plan of salvation. We discussed what they knew and what they were currently doing to prepare themselves to meet God and other questions along those lines and my companion and I were calm, were very in sinc and at the end we were talking to her and said sorry if it was a little scattered at first while we tried to gather our thoughts and calmed down and she assured us she felt the spirit so strong and he spoke things to her mind and brought goals she had made a while back, back to her remembrance and it wasn't necessarily what we talked about. That was another quiet assurance that the spirit is the ultimate teacher and as long as we teach with it everything will always work out :)
We went to an amazing devotional Sunday night and a the theme I got from it was MINDSET. Mindset is EVERYTHING! The way we look at situations and learn from them is how we grow. We are either living in a fixed mindset where we feel we can't grow or learn and shy away from those situations where we might get embarrassed from not knowing something, but the goal is to switch to a growth mindset. We just need to keep trying and staying positive with the knowledge that it will work out and that we can always grow! Along with that is to keep stretching to the Lord. His hands are constantly outstretched and waiting for us to turn and ask for his help to have the strength to go on and keep growing. I challenged myself to work on gaining a growth mindset and getting out of my comfort zone so I can grow and I hope to give you the same challenge!
I'm so grateful to have a knowledge of this gospel and to have a testimony that if I put my full trust on the Lord and in his spirit that everything will work out and what I am teaching will be what someone needs. I am grateful to know that I have a personal savior who knows exactly what I have and will go through in this life. I am grateful to feel the constant love and peace that this gospel brings us and I can't belive it is almost time for me to head to Canada and help find God's lost children and spread his love!!
Till next week! Love you all!
Love, Sister Merrill
Sister Smith & Sister Merrill
Canada Edmonton Mission Bound
We love Sister Syd!
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