Take a Step Into the Dark. The Light Will Come.

 

"Opposition turns up almost anyplace something good has happened...There are cautions and considerations to make but once there has been genuine illumination, beware the temptation to retreat from a good thing. If it was right when you prayed about it and trusted it and lived for it, it is right now. Don't give up when the pressure mounts...face your doubts. Master your fears. 'Cast not away therefore your confidence' Stay the course and see the beauty of life unfold for you."

-Elder Jeffrey R. Holland

 

This quote has been my lifesaver this summer as I've been preparing for a mission. Satan works so hard on those who are striving to follow God's will and difficulties will always arise anytime something good has happened just as Elder Holland said.

 

As it grows closer and closer to my MTC entry date my emotions gradually build to bursting. I have never been so excited for anything in my life but I also have never been so terrified either. I have become obsessed with reading mission blogs feasting on anything that will give me any hint as to what it's like and how to prepare.

 

As the summer continues my fear and anxiety mount. I am constantly filled with thoughts of doubt and discouragement. I keep thinking, "What in the world I have I gotten myself into?"

 

But if there is anything at all that I've learned it's that fear and doubt DO NOT come from God.

Heavenly Father sends only His peace, hope, and assurance. He loves us and wants what is best for us. He gave us His son so that we wouldn't have to go through this life alone. God is LOVE. Not fear, not doubt, not discouragement.

 

God will make a way when there is no way.

1 Nephi 3:7

    I will go and do the things which the Lord hath commanded, for I know that the Lord giveth no commandments unto the children of men, save he shall prepare a way for them that they may accomplish the thing which he commandeth them.

 

 

Knowing this truth, I never have to be scared. Because I know that I don't have to do it alone, in fact I couldn't even if I wanted to. Heavenly Father will always be there with me. I am doing HIS work so how could I possibly fail?

 

God doesn't call the qualified.

He qualifies the called.