Monroe-Week 16

This week Elder Phillips has had a rough week.  He said in his email that everything has fallen through this week...it has tested his faith a little bit but he is just trying to keep working hard and he knows that the Lord will bless him for it.  "My small miracle for the week was we were on a team up with a member and everything was falling through of course...but then we was this kid walking by, music blasting, so I get his attention and invite him to visit the website and invited him to hear the lessons.  He accepted.  One thing that I've realized on my mission is patience is not my strong suit.  I was told by another missionary a scripture in Luke 21:19 I think, which says in your patience possess ye your souls.  It just made me think that we need to be patient for what we want and that right now I should be focused completely on what the Lord wants and I think as I've been out here I have lost sight of that.  I need to keep my eye single to the glory of God.  I know that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.  I have started to study the New Testament and it has strengthed my testimony of him.  I have learned more about who he really is and what he did for me.  And I can share that with others so they can see that he wasn't just a man who suffered on the cross but that he is our brother who loved us so much that he was willing to die for us and that he performed miracles and set a perfect example fo us to strive to become.  He broke the bands of death so that one day we can also make it back to live with our Heavenly Father and that we can stand before our God and he will rejoice with us and welcome us to his rest.  I love the restored gospel, I know it is all true.  I have seen it change lives.  I am a witness of his miracles and his mercies.

I know that Justin is in Atlanta for a reason and that he is blessing the lives of people there.  I am grateful for the opportunity that I have to support him and encourage him while he is serving the Lord.