This week was amaazing! We started doing the Easter Contacting just like President advised us to and we were so stoked to see how it would work out!! I just knew we were going to see so many miracles and find so many new amies!! And then we started.
We had anticipated receiving rejection as usual but had hoped and prayed for many many people to say yes! But by the end of the week we had only received ONE. Her name is Christel. And I love her! We knocked on her door and her husband answered, I introduced us and he said let me get my wife she speaks English and shut the door. So I was all sad because clearly my French wasn't good enough. But then his wife came out and I tried again in French and we ended up talking quite a bit and she invited us to come back!!!!!! So we will call her today to set up the time :) :) it was really great!! But she was the only one and I had hoped for more. So Sunday night when we sat down to count numbers I was really discouraged. Surely we hadn't done our part. If only I had more faith we would have seen more miracles! I prayed and prayed for forgiveness and comfort. And this morning as I read President Poznanski's weekly email I received the answer to my prayer. He shared a quote from Elder Scott that says:
"Even if you have the strongest faith, God will not always reward you immediately according to your desires. Rather, He will respond a piece at a time with what in His eternal plan is best for you. Your continuing exercise of faith will forge strength of character available to you in times of critical need. Such character is not developed in moments of great challenge or temptation. That is when it is used."
And I knew right then that I had done my part, that Heavenly Father was proud of the missionary that I am and that I did have the faith for those miracles but in His design it wasn't time for them yet. So even if we aren't receiving the answers to our prayers that we want or seeing the miracles we expect it isn't necessarily because our faith is too weak or we aren't good enough. We just need to trust the Lord that He has a plan for us and He knows what He is doing :)
I am SO SO SO excited for General Conference this weekend!!! We weren't able to watch the General Women's Meeting but they will play that for us this weekend during the Priesthood session. I seriously cannot wait to get that spiritual nourishment!! although it is going to be in French...hopefully with the Lord's help I'll still be able to get out of it what I need despite it being in a foreign language! This week we are going to focus on General Conference and preparing ourselves as well as our amies for it! Soeur Bennion and I decided to write down questions that we would like answers for and to invite our amies to do the same. Soo I would like to invite all of you to write five questions down that you are seeking answers for. And I know that you will receive the answers to your prayers this weekend! Yesterday we had lunch with the Family Devinck and the Elders and it was SO fun and the Elders shared a message about General Conference. It has three parts. 1. Prepare 2. Listen 3. Act So we need to prepare ourselves spiritually to receive the guidance and revelation that Heavenly Father is just waiting to give us. Then we need to listen carefully and attentively to what the Spirit whispers to us throughout the conference and lastly we need to act upon what we learn and apply it in our daily life. When we apply what we learn it shows Heavenly Father how much we appreciate His guidance and it will help us along our path back to Him. I am so grateful for General Conference and for a prophet here on the earth today. I know that the messages we will hear are inspired by Heavenly Father and we will receive the answers we desire and the spiritual nourishment we need! I am so grateful for a loving Heavenly Father who gives us so much!!
Thank you for everything! I love you all and keep you in my prayers always!
avec amour soeur hawkes
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