Happy Monday! I hope your week was full of love and acceptance. This week I arguably felt the most rejection I have since being here. Must have been something in the water considering it rained 3 days in a row. But that's okay, Satan can't drown me! We met so many Spanish speaking people this week, they always bring a smile to my face because they make Caroline feel so close to my heart. On Thursday and Friday we were able to do service at East Georgia College. Students moved into their dorms so we got to help out! It was a nice change in pace. The head over the dorms is actually a less active member. We met her and found out she grew up in Hurricane, Utah!! Her and I used to work at the same place too! Small world, and the Gospel makes it smaller. She is awesome though, I'm excited to see her again.
On Friday we met the father of a less active family. The senior couple usually visits less active members, but they had to be somewhere else for the week. I felt grateful for my loud personality, because he is not a fan of the missionaries. He seemed to be fond of it too, because he said if we come back he wont kick us out haha! I'd like to think it was just me, but I know it wasn't. He mentioned the missionaries that had come over the years continuously neglected to engage with him, because he is a Catholic. I personally think they were most likely just afraid of him, but I don't know the full story. What do know is beneath all his anger, was a lot of sorrow. (I think it's safe to say we all communicate sadness differently) Either way, I could feel it for him. We're all children of God, and deserve to feel and know the value of it! I apologized on behalf of everything he experienced and felt. He and my comp both teared up and the room felt so.... still. The Holy Ghost was working through him that day.
It's okay to apologize, even when you feel you've done nothing wrong, and especially when you have. Here is to a week full of recognizing how my actions affect others!!
I think we often under consider the impact we have on others, and overlook the difference sincere apology and appreciation can do for a person.
Thankfully the Lord blessed me with a lifetime to get it right!
On a positive note, over the last three weeks our little branch seems to have more people every week! Our investigator and his wife even came! Great things come over time right? ;)
Isaiah 43:2
"When thou passest through the
Nothing but love and blessin's,
Sister Morrill
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