Y'all ready for this :)
Remind me to stop buying ANYTHING. I hate having to get rid of stuff and pack for new areas. ALRIGHT so I am headed to Ardmore Oklahoma Wednesday Morning.
There were plenty of tender mercies this week. I was dealing with body issues again....the email I don't say that in will be a cause for celebration with ice cream...probably not cake that has gluten in it.
I am going to miss everyone here quite a bit. I really do love Texas but God has a plan for me that I am allowed to shape. My missi0n has taught me so much about being positive about situations. I remember growing up and when hard things happened I was so so bogged down by them. I felt miserable a lot when those kind of things happened. BUT that is life right? Hard things are just bound to happen. I have finally started to learn that what mom said about choosing to have a good attitude is completely true. Situations are going to happen and we can either choose to have a good attitude or a bad one. We are going to have to handle it either way so we might as well let it change us. When trials feel unbearable it really is because we are not letting the Savior take enough of the weight. How do we do that though? SIMPLY let go. There is a story of this little girl and a hornets nest, a member told us this week I would love to share.
A little girl is walking down the street and she sees a little puppy following her. She is so enthralled in this sweet little brown eyed puppy following her and so she keeps walking waiting for him. As she looks back he falls into a big hole with a hornets nest in it. The poor puppy is yelping and is being stung all over. She knows that if she were to go get help then he would be stung too much by the time she got back. Instead the little girl bows her head to pray and just begs God for the help. She says she cannot stand to see the puppy suffer and so she is going to save him, but she needs help. She leans down puts her arm in and grabs the puppy out. Her arms are not stung at all. God helped her with something that she KNEW was impossible to do on her own. This actually happened and the woman that was once this little girl made the connection to the Atonement later in her life.
If we walk forward in faith, letting all our fears go, the Lord will carry them and we will come off conquerer. I absolutely KNOW this to be true. Try it this week. One thing that you need to change but you just don't want to or think you can. I know that you can.
I am so grateful for the people in this area that have helped my spiritual growth and my physical growth (from my belly out). I am going to miss them. My district leader goes home this week and poor kid is struggle bussing. I am grateful that I still have a while!!!
Love you all,
Sister Engelbrecht
