One thing that I want to share is from the talk given by Dieter F Uchtdorf. He talked about stepping back, looking at our life from a higher plain, simplify, and start where you are. We each have a great plan for our life and we need to make sure we aren't making it harder on ourselves. He said, "if we only see ourselves with mortal eyes we will not see us the way He (Heavenly Father) sees us". Let us always remember our divine potential and always look forward to the eternity that is promised to us if we are faithful and enjoy the journey along the way! It doesn't matter what has happened in the past.. Leave it there and move forward! Start where you are right now. Take small steps. Change one thing at a time and always remeber how blessed you are. I love what Quentin L Cook said: "we have a long way to go but a wonderful beginning". That wonderful beginning comes because we made a choice to follow Christ even before we came to this earth. Now what we have to do is make that decision again! He is the way! And like Jeffrey R Holland said, "be peaceful, believe in God and yourself. You are doing better than you think".
Miracle for the week: we had a lesson on Wednesday afternoon, but it got cancelled so we were just walking down the road to do porte-a-porte and we stopped on the side of the road to talk to a lady that was out in her garden. She wasn't too interested but we wanted to leave her with a prayer. It was my turn to pray so I asked her if there was anything I could say or ask for in my prayer (which I usually forget to ask) and she went on a rant after that haha. So we were listenting to her rant and as we were standing there another woman drove by and saw us standing there and she said "I want you to come to my house! I've been waiting for sisters to come to this area! I want you to come study the Bible with me!" So, had our lesson not cancelled, had I not asked that question, and had she not gone on a rant we probably would have been in the middle of the prayer and Malia probably would have driven right past us. What's even cooler is that after that we were able to have our lesson with the person that cancelled. Well... Maybe it's not cooler but it was a bunch of little miracles added up to make one huge miracle.
Other than that I love all of the little kids we teach! It is so much fun! I love our area and I love the people. There is a family that lives just down the road from us that we have gotten really close to and the daughter, Maheata (19), has been coming with us to teach just about everyday. She was inactive for a long time and just came back in April. She has SO much light and she has already become a close friend!
Fun story... We watched conference at the stake center in Noumea so the whole stake was there and there were moments that I found myself actually holding a normal, human conversation with people haha.. My companion would be talking to someone and another person would walk up to me and start talking and I was like well.. I can either stand here awkwardly or I can open my mouth.. It was fun.. I walked away from the experience thinking "did that just happen? did I just hold a conversation without my companion at my side every second of it?" Haha
I want to leave you with a small testimony... I know that I, Sister Stahura, am a daughter of a Heavenly King and I know YOU are a son or daugther of the most High God, as well. In the name of His Son, Jesus the Christ, amen.
Love,
Soeur Stahura
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