Midwest Missionary: GRACE {11.10.14}

This week was all about GRACE. If you haven't had a chance to read the definition of grace in the Bible dictionary recently, I would encourage you to take a quick look at it.
A couple things that stand out to me about grace are that it comes into play when we are doing ALL we can and that it is an enabling power.

Now with that in mind let me tell you about a few experiences this week in mighty Milford.

First of all, the work is without a doubt hastening! Whew. I feel like I'm living in fast forward sometimes. Throughout my mission I've felt the urgency of the work, but since I've been here I feel like it's been taken up 5 notches. It's exciting! :)

Thursday-- had to get an oil change and felt impressed to spend our waiting time calling members to come teaching with us Saturday and getting our day planned out. We even planned a split... something I've only done a handful of times on my mission!

Friday-- Great day, lots of miracles, lost our phone. Searched high and low, prayed, did it all, but no such luck.

Saturday-- phoneless and it's our super jam packed day of member involvement. We left the house at 10:30 and didn't get home until 9 that night and all of the hours in between were what can only be called GRACE. From 12-4 we had back to back member present lessons AND our split! Woo! We were able to teach 5 member present lessons in less than four hours... with no way to get a hold of our investigators or members! Luckily, Heavenly Father already had worked everything out for us and because we had set everything up Thursday it all worked out-- thanks to the help of our wonderful members!! (who probably think we're crazy now). We were literally running from one appointment to the next, having our members call each other in between to tell the next one that we were on our way :) We had a spare 5 minutes at some point in the day and ran into Kroger to use the restroom and... there was Christmas music playing!! Our first listening of the season and it just happened to be Run, Run Rudolph... very fitting :) Heavenly Father definitely has a sense of humor! Anyway, this was probably the most exciting/stressful/exhausting/successful day of my mission.

Sunday-- Realized that somewhere amidst all of the craziness Saturday we misplaced our area book and ward roster. That is NOT good. Oh and we're still without a phone. So now we had no way to call or contact anyone and no addresses to put in our GPS. I'm telling you, Satan is tricky and will go to great lengths to stop us, BUT God is always more powerful and we ended up having another very successful, grace filled day. Nothing is going to stop the work from progressing in the Mighty Milford ward!! :)

Rewinding one more time to Thursday.. we had a zone conference in Eastgate (!!!) and talked all about living outside our comfort zones. We talked about the difference between making sacrifices and living a consecrated life. Here's the thing, you can make a sacrifice without consecrating yourself to God but you can't consecrate your life without making sacrificing. It's like living the higher law in a way. Anyway, it just really changed my perspective and helped me realize some changes I can make to be a better servant of the Lord. I would encourage each of you to consider studying it this week. Here's a great talk to get you started :)
https://www.lds.org/church/news/bishop-causse-help-missionaries-elevate-personal-consecration?lang=eng

I love each and every one of you so very, very much. I know you will witness grace in your lives each day as you consecrate yourselves to our Father in Heaven.
xoxoxox
Sister Rolfe

Journeyed through the hills and a cemetary and felt like we were traveling to Narnia to meet a new family to teach and find Ol Ray, the creator of Ol Ryas bbq sauce :)