10/24/2016 0 Comments If you ask the Lord for trials...Hello Hello everyone!!!
Crazy news this week: After another two REALLY short transfers, I am out of my 3rd Ville and off to my 4th! Normally sisters only serve in 3-4 villes so I am shootin' for a record here ;)... maybe 6? 7?... I wasn't sure how I was feeling when I got the call to release me from being an STL, but I felt a whole lot better once they told me I'd be moving down the street from the under-construction Paris Temple! Yup, I'm headed to VERSAILLES. Polishing two new missionaries, at once! TRIO. One from the western United States and the other from Southern France! Here's to adventures ;)! Aside from transfer decisions, nothing huge happened this week because we were on "house arrest" in order to give my back time to heal. It is doing worlds better! Thank you for all of the prayers and fasts, they worked! However, we did get to spend Sunday outside of the apartment and in that single day we had enough excitement to last us an entire week!! ;) We had a baptism for a cute little 11 year old convert named Geminelli. Then, while at the baptism, our adorable ami Lou ran up to me and said... "Soeur Wyson! I received my answer from God! I want to be baptized! AND, I want to do it in November and I am going to be baptized IN Versailles!!! Because you are my missionary and I need you to be there!!!" ... I literally jumped for joy and hugged her SOOOO tightly! It was such a tender mercy for me. My other miracle of the week must have been receiving a call from an elder who had felt inspired to give me a priesthood blessing. Assuming it was for my back, we gladly invited them over that evening. Then, as he lay his hands on my head, he spoke of only one thing--Prayer. Without even once mentioning my back problems, he expressed the importance of turning all that I had over to the Lord and told me that as I did so, I would know what to do. So, I focused a lot on prayer this week. After spending many hours in conversation with the Lord, I was reminded of another prayer that I had offered up to him about 4 weeks prior to my back injury.... I was coming up on my year mark and reflecting on the numerous lessons I had learned in the past year, as well as the lessons (even more numerous) that I still had to learn before returning home in the next 6 months. Eager to learn, I willingly gave permission to the Lord to give me, and I quote, "ANY challenges that I need, to allow me to become the person you need me to be". Well, what lesson did I learn this transfer?... "If you ask the Lord for trials...you better be prepared...HE WILL SEND THEM." Hahaha. As unfortunate as it seemed, I realized in that moment that my back was an answer to my prayers. I had asked the Lord to give me a trial that would strengthen me, 4 weeks later, I found my weakened body, resting in its' strongest position...on my knees. At that moment, I poured out my heart in even greater prayer to my Heavenly Father, to thank Him for all the blessings he had granted me. Including a broken back. Because it wasn't until the strength of my physical body was momentarily taken from me, that I was reminded of my only true and reliable power source. A few days ago, I had the opportunity to be present for another blessing that an elder gave to one of our members who was recently diagnosed with a life threatening disease. In it, he said something that really pierced my heart. He said, "As you turn to The Lord to strengthen your spirit, your physical body will follow." The Lord is our only reliable power source. He will never fail you! He is only one that is capable of providing constant, undisturbed power for as long as we remain connected. If we connect ourselves to him, ensuring that we are first charged spiritually, our physical bodies will indeed follow. "We need to get into spiritual shape. We need to develop spiritual stamina. We need strong testimonies that will lead to true conversion, and as a result we will find within ourselves the inner peace and strength needed to endure whatever challenges we may face."-- Elder Richard J. Maynes LOL, (Lots of Love) Soeur Wyson
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Tracie WysonI feel very honored to have had the opportunity to serve as a full-time missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in the France, Paris Mission. Archives
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