Chelsea Williams

Another day another dollar! Or should I say another week another 7 dollars? I'm going to stop now..

 

Anyways, Here we are the end of yet another transfer. Next week is the last week of transfer number 10. Hey remember when we all first embarked on this journey that I had like 1000 transfers to go and it was glorious. Well it's still glorious, I just wanted to reminisce for a second.

Moving on, this past week we had interviews with President Mortensen, and it was awesome! That man will do great things, I can just tell. He just has a real fire for the work and he is fresh right now, haha. I am so incredibly grateful that I had President Pingree for the first part/ majority of my mission because he was exactly what I needed at that time. But I am also very grateful for a loving Heavenly Father who new exactly what I would need for the last stretch. I know that with President Mortensen I will be able to leave my mission with no regrets because I worked hard until the end. Haha he is going to make sure of that. I love it! This work is far too important to get comfortable. If you're comfortable, you're doing something wrong and you should probably repent, haha. At least that's what I tell myself. I'm sure all of you are light years ahead of me. Luckily, I have plenty of time to continue "becoming", in the words of President Mortensen.

 

On a less upbeat note did y'all hear about the murder this past week? I'm sure you did, but if not, last week 6 out of 7 members of an LDS family were killed in their home in Spring Texas, which is about 30 minutes from where I'm at right now. They were supposed to go and pick up the missionaries serving in their ward, which turns out was Sister Myers, my last trainee, when the ex brother in law came over. Gahhhh! It just broke my heart when I heard. There is so much wickedness in the world that it can almost be overwhelming. But, on the other hand, there is also so much good. It is amazing to see what a tragedy can do to bring the best out of the human heart. It stinks that it takes pain and heartache, but at least we know it's there. And we also know that no matter how dark and bleak the world and future may look, right and good will always win. That's just the way it is. Romans 8:

 

31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?

 

35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

 

37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come

39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

 

No matter what comes we cannot be separated from the love and power of our Father in Heaven. That it so encouraging. All we need to do is find faith in Christ and to act, and once you've found that faith to not let it burn out. Do everything you can to nourish that little seed because I promise there will, if there hasn't already, come a time when that is all you will have and that is the only thing that can carry you.  So in the words of Elder Holland, "I know this work is God’s very truth, and I know that only at our peril would we allow doubt or devils to sway us from its path. Hope on. Journey on. Honestly acknowledge your questions and your concerns, but first and forever fan the flame of your faith, because all things are possible to them that believe. In the name of Jesus Christ, amen."

 

I love you all. Have a faith filled week ok?

 

-Love Sister Williams