Well this week wasn't much different than any other week, but I truly have felt so blessed.
We met with Emo and Samantha twice this week. They are doing alright. The biggest challenge is that they don't really have a ride anywhere/ they go wherever their Aunt and Uncle go. And that has been out of town on weekends. I know people have agency, but man, it can get frustrating.
Wednesday we were going to meet with Koleta, but she had to cancel due to her Dialysis again. But she did say that she wanted to come to church and was planning on this week. Then she had to go out of town for family stuff. It really excited me that she was the one calling us and trying to set something up. Progress is really being made, it is all in Gods time though for sure!
This week a lot of plans fell through, but it was awesome to see how it all worked out for the good. God sometimes has a better plan in mind for us, but I have learned, we have to have a plan too, our goal is just to match it up with Gods plan. Then when our plan doesn't work out we trust Him. He isn't going to give us every single thing for us to do every second, otherwise we wouldn't really have agency, but I do know that He will let us know if we need to be doing something different. Last week in Zone Conference, President Van Cott mentioned that "The Holy Ghost will tell you NO more than it will tell you YES". That is something that I have been seeing every day.
I saw many answers to prayers this week. We have an activity coming up in the ward and I felt the impression to ask for permission to participate. So eventually I did, and I just prayed that if the answer was no, we would know what to do to help explain to people why we couldn't participate. I thought it was going to be so hard, but as we told people that we couldn't, they completely understood, and it wasn't even a problem.
I was fearing man and what they would say and I was avoiding the prompting. But I am so grateful that I did act on it. God does prepare the way. And I'm not saying that every thing is going to be easy, but I know that it is possible.
This week I remembered the challenge from seminary in High School to ONLY give prayers of thanks. I can't remember if it was the whole month, but I think it was. It is my goal this week to GIVE more prayers of thanks and to recognize the blessings that are given to us each day, that reminds me of what President Uchdorf said in the General Women's meeting, "Part of our challenge is, I think, that we imagine that God has all of His blessings locked in a huge cloud up in heaven, refusing to give them to us unless we comply with some strict, paternalistic requirements He has set up. But the commandments aren’t like that at all. In reality, Heavenly Father is constantly raining blessings upon us. It is our fear, doubt, and sin that, like an umbrella, block these blessings from reaching us."
Blessings are all around us, we just have to open our eyes, or close our umbrellas.
I LOVE you all!
I know that God is aware of each of us!
Love,
SIster Kellee Gardner
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