Dear Family and Friends,
Map in the Library (where she uses the computers)
We had a Sisters’ night
this week and Sister Chan will be leaving for home (for Chinese New Year and
her mission is closing) this week back to Hong Kong. She will be missed! We had
training on a few different topics and clothing before we get a ton of new Sisters,
and we watched The Errand of Angels (one of my new favorites! --watch it with
subtitles) and shared our companionship inventory stories of how we work things
out and even some funny ones. In the
movie it talks about the scripture Doctrine and Covenants 12:8 (8 And no one can assist in this work except he shall be ahumble
and full of blove,
having faith, hope, and charity, being temperate in all things, whatsoever
shall be centrusted
to his care.) I don’t know if I have fully looked at that
verse before, but Heavenly Father trusts in our care and different things, but
one of the things are the people who we are around, our companions, family,
etc. We have the responsibility to take care of what we have and look at them
in the light that Heavenly Father sees them. Sister Beesley had to tell a few
of us to quiet down because we were laughing so loud after curfew- haha, felt
like we were kids again, whoops. President Beesley even made us Elephant
pancakes in the morning, yes, elephant pancakes with vanilla flavor in them (by
the way, remember how I don't like pancakes besides dad’s whole wheat ones? I
ate blueberry pancakes for dinner yesterday with raw sugar and whipped cream on
them and LOVED them! Shocker!)
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| President Beesley making breakfast
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With the Young Women
coming to the opening of Relief Society yesterday, the room was packed by the
time we walked in and we were standing at the back by the door and just kept
multiplying. I found the closest available seat and I sat down next to a woman
who I had not seen before. I found out later that she was visiting her family
in the ward and she wanted us to visit a few people. After she gave us that
information, she proceeded to try and set me up with one of her grandsons out
of Alaska! eee! I was back to my companion real quick after that conversation.
Maybe sitting a few rows away is too far when it comes to distractions. My
companion laughed at me too-- haha. Trust
me, no one is immune to distractions, even if the distraction is your view of
yourself. I remember thinking that missionaries were always doing the right
thing- always focused, but it is such a strong push against our will and God's
will all the time, and that's one way how we learn, when we turn to his will. I
read in the scripture this week in Mosiah chapter 4, and in verse 5 I noticed
that it says: "For behold, if the knowledge of the goodness of God at this
time has awakened you to a sense of your anothingness, and your worthless and fallen
state—" and it goes on talking (verses 5-11, and 12 on are real good if you
will read on about it), but I noticed it says if the goodness of GOD has
awakened you to a sense of your nothingness. How often does that
"nothingness" we feel come from us comparing ourselves to the world,
or others around us-- how much more should we be aware of how God sees us. And
how Elder Uchtdorf shared that compared to God we are nothing, yet we are
everything to God. It seems to make a point and when I thought about it, the
thought came to mind that the currency of the world is different from Gods--
the world’s currency allows us to buy candy--it's good for a while, but only
rots your teeth and does no good, but with God, we can buy all the nutrients we
need to prosper. That's what he really wants for us.
We had an investigator
tell us "You don't look like you have a care in the world- there is so
much going on and you aren't worried".
Believe me, when we heard that we were thinking of all the things we
were worried about-- I noticed that the worry I feel now, and the worry I could
feel without God are so different, and the confidence she saw was not because
my troubles are gone, because they're not. It's because I am doing what he
would have me do and that has made me happy. When he knows everything we can
be, and loves us and wants us to be happy, and has never gone against his word,
he directs us for good. Why not listen?
We taught our 3rd lesson
to a girl last night who is dating a boy in the ward and she prayed out loud
for the first time in her life. She is such a bright girl and the spirit was
strong there. The Gospel is so true! Also, an investigator I met a few months
ago keeps coming to church and loves it. She came yesterday to our class where
each of us taught the plan of salvation in groups of three- we taught it to her
a couple of months ago and she was in sisters h and I's group- she layed it out
and I was so proud! I seriously love the opportunity I have had to teach her
and will miss being around these youth I have grown to love. One of them called
us old yesterday-- I think my companion was a little offended- haha- whatever,
we're only a few years different, and with Sister H. she dishes out plenty of
sarchasm so it all worked out with laughing.
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| District Meeting Birthdays |
We got to skype with a
recent convert in the Bush branch the other day!!! She is so sweet, but she
hasn't been calling into church and we found out why. We are sending her a package this week (which
she doesn't know) with a ton of awesome quotes stuck in the Book of Mormon, and
we will be helping her to understand different stories she doesn't understand
because when she was baptized she was taught in a language which was not her
own- but she finally called in to church!!! We are SO proud of her!
I had a thought about
the first few words of the Book of Mormon yesterday. It says, "I Nephi,
having been born of goodly parents...." and it all began with remembering
that, but no matter what hand we have been dealt in this life, we still have
Heavenly parents who love us, whose decisions are good and even if what we need
is chastening or that push for change, that is all out of love because
sometimes chastening IS the most Christlike thing we can do in some situations.
It is all about remembering the perspective of eternity and where we are going
and who we are becoming.
Love you!!!
Love,
Sister Wuehler
Scriptures:
John 3:16-17
16 ¶For aGod
so bloved
the cworld,
that he dgave
his eonly
begotten fSon,
that whosoever gbelieveth
in him should not perish, but have heverlasting
ilife.
17 For God asent
not his Son into the world to bcondemn
the world; but that the world through him might be csaved.
12 I say unto you, I
would that ye should remember to retain
the name written
always in your hearts, that ye are not found on the left hand of God, but that
ye hear and know the voice by which ye shall be called, and also, the name by which he shall call you.
ism: "How did no
one find out about what you were planning all along?" -- "We didn't
tell anybody"
"I don't pretend to
be Tom Cruise- Tom Cruise pretends to be me" -PB
"you guys opened me
up and helped me to realize..." -- an investigator who i love, we were
shocked by this comment- it was the greatest gift
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