Tender Mercies E'ry Day

Hello Hello!

Oh my goodness. So I won't give you a journal account of my week- But this week has been so rough and yet so awesome! I can't believe how easy it is to forget the Lord's hand in this work. I've been constantly needing to remind myself that I'm not in charge, the Lord is. 

So I'll get out the negative stuff first, even though it's not really negative- it's instructive!

Being a trainer is hard because sometimes it feels like everything is on my shoulders- like on Friday we were out and about and there was NOTHING happening. all our appointments bailed, it was hot and sticky, people were super rude and NO one was listening to us. 

Needless to say, I was not a happy camper- and the worst part was that I kept fighting the feeling that it was all my fault! 

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

THAT IS NOT RIGHT!!!

This guy is having a rough day.

SO let's get the good stuff out there. That same day we had dinner with a stellar family who's house was awesome and the food was great and I felt the spirit so strongly.

Yesterday we taught a man who had SO much pain in his life. Despite that pain I could see a change when we promised him the healing and peace that can come from the gospel and the covenant of baptism. After many times of trying to catch him, we finally met with a man who has not come to church in a long time. The Lord softened his heart to us and he's going to let us serve him soon! We were directed to a part-member family who let us in and were EXTREMELY receptive to hearing the message of the restoration. We met a wonderful woman who broke into tears after hearing us give her a simple compliment about her strong faith. At the end of the week, a lot of our numbers were better than I've seen them on my whole mission!

WHAT?!

So lesson learned:. There is a tender mercy in every day. There is a miracle around every corner and all we need to do to see it is to recognize them! Frustrations and concerns and weakness blur our vision and cut us off from God's love- and it feels so gross! 

I've been writing down a tender mercy in my planner every day- even if it's something small like someone giving us cookies or a nice breeze after a hot bike ride. I've also been writing down funny quotes of the day- because every day needs to be full of laughter too :)

I'd invite everybody to hone into those daily tender mercies the Lord gives us- as we do that we can better recognize his hand and feel His love even more frequently in our lives.

I love you all so much!! 

Hurrah for Israel!

ALSO! keep up the study of preach my gospel! that book is RIGHTEOUS!

Love,

Sister Roberts