Happy Canada Day!
I can't help but think about home today, since I
can picture in my mind exactly what everyone is going to be doing today back
home! Pancake breakfast, parade, Aunt Kristies family setting up by the arena
under the tree's, Mom and Dad staying in the trailer park, and people wandering
all over Rosemary watching tractor pulls and enjoying the warm weather! Oh I
miss it! : ) people here are super patriotic which is extremely refreshing.
Because the church that I am serving in is predominantly a military ward, they
had all the military members stand up at the front to sing the American Anthem.
It was quite touching. I will admit tho, I secretly wanted to sing Oh Canada
really bad : ) So my companions will have to deal with my unrelenting love for
my Home and Native Land! I think this time of year is awesome tho because we
get to really think of all that God has given us, and be grateful for the
freedom that we have. There are so many around the world who do not have what we
have, and I am thankful that we can believe what we want to believe.
This week has been a great one! I'm sure your all wondering how I am
fairing with being a new
'mother' of two! But its been fantastic!
Honestly, we are all pretty new, so when the going gets tough and I'm not sure
where to go or what to do, we simply put it into God's hand and he leads the
way. Its been a big learning experience for me and my faith has really been both
tested, and strengthened. Saturday was long and HOT! Everyone we had planned to
go and see fell through and we ended up feeling pretty discouraged by the time
6:30 rolled around. Then One of my companions felt like we should go to this
park right by our apartments. So we went walking, honestly my heart wasn't in
it, I felt pretty tired and just frustrated. So I said a small prayer to myself,
asking that if there is anyone that we need to find today, that we can find them
and help them. Well we found him. Just Like Johnny, we almost walked right by
him, but instead walked up and got his attention. This man's name is Danny, and
He is 50 or so, and it turns out he's a completely normal guy, retired police
officer, had tons of experience in his life, and has recently had many hard
things happen to him. The past 3 years everything in his life flipped upside
down. His mom, dad and sister passed away, He lost his house, truck and has
hardly any family to help him out. Its a heartbreaking story, because despite
all of this He's stayed sober, no drinking or smoking for 11 years. And as of
right now he sleeps in his storage unit. His story is so humbling, and the more
we talked to him the more we knew we had to help him. So we asked him to come to
church with us the next day. We met him at the park at 9:15am to bike with us to
church. He was there! So Yesterday He met the bishop, who has given him many
places to find work, and we found him a place to sleep until He can get on his
feet.
He asked us to right our names down yesterday on a paper. We
asked him why, and he said it was so he could pray for us at night and thank
heavenly Father that He found us. Apparently, just hours before we met him, he
asked Heavenly Father to help him, that he didn't know what to do or where to go
anymore. He said that He promised God that if He would show him where to go, He
would follow, but that He just needed to know the path to follow.
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