He Knows Where Your Heart Is
Highlights
🌊: Himilse got baptized. She has been going to church for almost 10 years, and the Lord prepared her for us.
⭐️: Transfer news. Morby and I are staying for another elite transfer here in Coban 2 and we are so hyped. We are feeling blessed.
🐕: Morby and I found a really cute dog in the street. Named him Barney. He's got a nice smile with his tongue out. He's a Rottweiler + Weiner Dog Mix… we think. Great find.
👨👩👧👦: We had one of the most spiritual lessons ever with the Soto Family, our neighbors. They told us about how they've always been interested in going to church, but for the last 8 years have been waiting for the missionaries to invite them. They were exceedingly grateful for us coming to their door and explained to us how they have already seen the change in their lives from our messages and from God.
🚪: Morby and I love passing by the houses of people who have slammed doors in our face and saying something about how badly they want to hear our message. I know it sounds dumb, but we start crying laughing every time.
➗️: Hit some divisions in Chisec. That place is depressing and Morby and I didn't stop sweating for a single moment. Dripping sweat even at night. The baseball tarantulas also aren't the first choice.
🚻: The beginning of this week we received some unfortunate news from the laundromat. “I left your clothes in bleach all night but just couldn't get the armpit stains out”. Morby and I just looked at each other and started dying laughing. Classic. White shirts aren't too white anymore.
🏀: I met the legal guardian of Keba Keita and Fouse. He runs basketball camps in Mali then brings them back to the states. Crazy stories.
💩: Morby is fighting for his life in the bathroom the last couple of days. Pray for him. And me. It's hard studying w/ it in the background.
Spiritual Thought
Sadly, in my time here in Coban 2 I haven't really had any support from the bishop in the slightest and actually the opposite. It's been hard hearing what he said about me to people when I personally am just trying my best and trying to do everything I can. This week was specifically hard. Morby and I truly have been grindingggg out here and feels like “giving it all.” At the end of the week, we had our baptism and it was just going to be something small with only her family and a couple of us and the first counselor. We were taking our pictures, and the bishop came and just grilled me for the baptism and tried to cancel it. He has tried to get me moved out of the area and has gone to my Mission President to talk bad about me. Walking into his office after the baptism to tell him sorry and thank you for coming was a hard one and maybe had a couple tears involved. I didn't understand and still fully don't. It's a little hard feeling like you are giving all and only hearing negative.
After the baptism, an answer from God through a member, came. He pulled me aside and told me how they were all so grateful for me but more than anything, that “God knows where your heart is”.
I want to bear my testimony that I know God knows where our heart is. He knows the plans he has for each one of us. He is always preparing the path for us and if we can turn to him and give him everything we have, like the boy with the 5 loaves and 2 fish, he will ALWAYS perform his work and his miracle despite the thoughts of all those around us. I know that when we are able to come to lean on the Lord in everything, we are able to see that he truly does know where we are and that is really all that matters. I am so grateful to be a missionary and have the chance to feel the pure joy of loving the people here every day. I know this is his work and he loves us perfectly and unconditionally. En el nombre de Jesucristo amén.
17 And behold, I tell you these things that ye may learn wisdom; that ye may learn that when ye are in the service of your fellow beings ye are only in the service of your God.
Elder Wilde
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