Hi family!
This week has been good. I'm attaching some pictures of our adventure to the Getty museum this past Wednesday during our temple P-day. It was really fun, but we only had about forty minutes to be there and it is a place that you could spend all day exploring.
Well, I got a big slice of "Humble pie" this week. We were scheduled to be at the Visitors' Center Sunday morning, and we wanted to come in just an hour later so that we could go to our sacrament meeting, and Elder Macdonald, the director of the Visitor's Center, told us that if we wanted to come late we would just have to switch. I couldn't understand why because Sunday mornings are our slowest time there and we've always been able to go to our sacrament, so I thought that it would be no big deal for us to come in a little late just like we always had. I felt like we really needed to go because a less active woman named Bonnie promised us that she was going and I didn't want her to feel uncomfortable coming without anyone to be there with her. I even asked Elder Macdonald why we needed to be there, because I just wanted to know. I told him that I understand how important it is to be obedient, but I really don't like having to do it blindly- I like knowing the logic behind it so that I can fulfil the purpose of it and maybe even do it better, but I felt like this just didn't make any sense. He said that he needed all three of the companionships there and that I would see why Sunday morning. We decided to go on splits so at least one of us would be at church and we did rock-paper-scissors to see who out of the three of us would go with the other companionship of sisters in our ward to be there with Bonnie. I won so I got to go to church.
To my disappointment first of all, Bonnie didn't come, and secondly, when I returned to the Visitors' Center the director and his wife told me, very kindly but with a little bit of a well deserved "I'm sorry but I told you so" aire, that President Uchtdorf had come to tour the center that morning, and because I had switched I had missed it. I was pretty bummed, but that's what I get for being prideful. I had even told myself "Heavenly Father doesn't really expect blind obedience." But in actuality, he does, and that is where our faith comes in. To give myself a little credit, I have been doing really good at following the spirit in every little thing that I can, like talking to everyone that I see, or going back to the car to get something random that I feel like I might need but don't know why, or going back down the street to a house I feel we need to go to even if my companions are going to think that I'm crazy. I guess that I just needed that experience to remind me that when I'm not exactingly obedient, even to all of the small things, that I am going to miss out on some pretty awesome experiences that Heavenly Father has for me. And its ok that I'm not perfect, because I am learning and growing every day. Well, I hope that you don't think that I'm a horrible and prideful missionary for admitting that experience that happened, but I've realized that at least I am recognizing my weaknesses and working on them. I actually think that it was kind of funny. I think that it was best for me have missed out though, because I was the one that thought it was so important for us to be at church, and I would have felt really bad to have been the cause of one of my companions missing out on that experience. Its alright though, I'll have other chances to meet cool people, and we'll all meet the apostles in the next life, right? Anyways, moral of the story is, "Trust in the Lord with all thine heart, and lean not unto thine own understanding. In ALL thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy path." Proverbs 3:4-5
In other news, we are still searching for people to teach, but its going really well. We have met some great hopefuls, and we just need to keep having faith that we'll be led to those people that are prepared. "When you are down to nothing, God is up to something!" :D
I love you all so much, and again am grateful for your prayers and your great examples. Take care!
- Sister Dansie
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