When we get home at 9,
we don’t change into our pajamas or eat or get on the internet or listen to
music. We thank God for the health and safety we enjoyed that day, pray for His
inspiration, then sit at our desks. We pull out the binder with the names of
all the church members and investigators in our ward, and plan for the next
day. It awesome because even though we’re tired, because we have fresh in our
minds what it is we want to accomplish the next day, and we plan it all out.
When I wake up in the morning, I am excited to visit and help the people we are
going to see that day. You don’t have to be a missionary to do this. We can all
do it. When the alarm rings in the morning and you’re super tired, it’s exactly
what you need to you out of bed.
So this week we were
planning like normal, when my companion say Yessenia’s name and said, “It’s
been awhile since we’ve seen Yessenia. Wanna go visit her?” We planned to visit
her the next day and sent her a text, asking if she’d be home at 5. The next
day, we got to her house and knocked on the door. She opened and told her
they’d just diagnosed her with cancer. The night before, she had been praying
and asking the Lord for help and comfort, and in the middle of her prayer she
heard our text arrive.
Aunt Kate gave me one
of the quotes that has motivated me since Day One of my mission: “The
number of prayers we say may contribute to our happiness, but the number of
prayers we answer may be of far greater significance,” President Uchtdorf.
It is one of the
sweetest feelings to know that the Lord has used you as an instrument in His
hands. We should ALL be instruments in His hands, not just missionaries. I know
that if we really want to be, He will give us thousands of opportunities to be
the answers to others’ prayers. There’s no shortage of need in the world.
There’s a shortage of those willing to seek divine inspiration to help fulfill
those needs. I literally love the prophets and apostles of our days, because
they are literally the Lord’s spokesmen. They have worked so hard all their
lives to be sensitive to the Lord’s still small whispers. President Monson once
said: “I always have tried to live in such a way that when the Lord needs an
errand run, he says, I know Tommy Monson will do it.”
I invite you all to
make that one of your highest priorities, too.
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