Woah. So next week I promise the letter will be better! We ran out of time today with a meeting we had in the morning. So it'll be something short this week but I will share a few things. President asked me to bear my testimony this morning about how I have learned faith in the mission. I talked a little bit about how I have seen the change throughout this past year and a half. At the beginning of the mission I read the fourth missionary which talks about how we have to be the best missionary possible that we can be. Give ourselves completely to the Lord. And I remember praying one time and telling the Lord, "Here I am, take me and make what you want of me. Use me how you can." And I thought right after that moment that he would take me, and make me this amazing person without any effort on my part. I couldn’t have been more wrong. Soon I thought, why I am not being better? Why am I not progressing? And then I realized that to completely give myself over to the Lord, I have to follow Him exactly and push myself the most I can to be better. I’m the one who has to do things even though it seems scary or even if I’m nervous or even if I don’t want to. I had to do my part before the Lord could do His. And it takes a lot of faith. Not knowing what’s going to happen, and doing it no matter what the outcome may be. And that is one thing that I learned while being here. That through the Atonement of Jesus Christ, we can be made perfect. But he is waiting for us to make the first move, waiting for us to complete with the first principle of His gospel until he helps us with the rest.
I know that the mission has made me into a better person, but there’s still a life time of perfecting. A life time of discipleship. And I have to continue to have faith after the mission. Doing things and pushing myself even though I may not want to. I have to be obedient to the Lord and I know that If I act in faith, that he will give me even more and help me to become the person that he wants me to be.
So here's to the last week of my mission here in Paraguay. Its been great, and I'll share a bit more next Monday. But "Here I am, Lord. Use me how you can this week."
I hope that we all go into this week with that attitude. Submitting our will to the Lord's and becoming true disciples of Him.
This week I will be on my last division with some really young sisters and I’m excited! Here's to red roads, green trees, and Christmas time here in Paraguay!
Love, Hermana Liesel Wiscombe
I know that the mission has made me into a better person, but there’s still a life time of perfecting. A life time of discipleship. And I have to continue to have faith after the mission. Doing things and pushing myself even though I may not want to. I have to be obedient to the Lord and I know that If I act in faith, that he will give me even more and help me to become the person that he wants me to be.
So here's to the last week of my mission here in Paraguay. Its been great, and I'll share a bit more next Monday. But "Here I am, Lord. Use me how you can this week."
I hope that we all go into this week with that attitude. Submitting our will to the Lord's and becoming true disciples of Him.
This week I will be on my last division with some really young sisters and I’m excited! Here's to red roads, green trees, and Christmas time here in Paraguay!
Love, Hermana Liesel Wiscombe