Christ Calms the Storm

MALO FAMILY AND FRIENDS!!

We picked up our new sister on Tuesday, and whattta inspired companionship! She literally is perfect for us!!!

Her name is Sister Hingano, from the bay area in California. She is speaking Tongan!!!! (we are learning some HAHA) She is with us as she waits for her visa to head to Australia! We will keep her as long as we can hahaha we love her so much!

This week was awesome! We had great lessons with the boys from Kenya and they are going to come to Jimmy's baptism this week! They also killed it at soccer, it was so much fun! We had a lesson with Jimmy and Steve this week at a members house on his birthday! And just as the lesson started, the member pulled out 2 tickets to the tincaps ball game for that night and invited Jimmy and Steve to go with their family! MY HEART MELTED!!!!!  Long story short we had the best lesson && Jimmy texted us later that night saying he had the best birthday ever! 

Ahhhh, it was just such a good week and I'm very grateful! 

I was reading in Mosiah chapter 23 and came across some verses I loved. Alma and his people are in bondage to the Lamanites. I imagine all of us are currently now facing or have faced similar times, when we feel like we are in bondage to our pain, others choices, our temporal circumstances, or grief. 

The verses read, "Nevertheless the Lord seeth fit to chasten his people; yea, he trieth their patience and their faith.

NEVERTHELESS- whosoever putteth his trust in Him, the same shall be lifted up at the last day. 

For behold, I will show unto you that NONE could deliver them but the Lord their God, yea, even the God of Abraham and Isaac and of Jacob. And I will ease the burdens which are put upon your shoulders, that even you cannot feel them upon your backs, that ye may know of a surety that I, the Lord God, do visit my people in their afflictions."

And HE DID DELIVER THEM. He delivered Alma and His people, and He will deliver you. 

Orson F. Whitney once said,

“No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God . . . and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven.”

In the midst of our "bondage"  REMEMBER Christ heals wounds. Christ gives rest. Christ calms the storm. 

I have seen Him deliver me time and time again.I know He lives. I know that this too shall pass, so long as we put our trust in Him- especially when we don't understand or want to. 

ALL MY LOVE, 

ox sister rich