Sunday, September 22, 2013

Need not stress anymore

Today was a fantastic day at church. I felt the spirit very strong during sacrament. During the administration of the sacrament I started to pray to my Father in Heaven. As I prayed tears dropped down my cheeks. The spirit was sooo strong. When the first speaker started standing up to come to the pulpit my branch president stopped him. He said he needed to take some of his time. It was then that I has a feeling, he was going to ask me to come up and bear my testimony. I happened to be right. He asked me to share my experience of receiving my endowments. So I did just that. At the end of sacrament one of the Elders, Elder Larson said he loved my testimony and that he felt the spirit immediately. That touched my heart. I then met with my branch president and he asked why I was working on Sundays, I told him because we are only open Friday, Saturday and Sundays and that I needed the money for my mission. He stopped me right there and said, "The Lord doesn't care if you have $5,000 or a penny for your mission. You will serve no matter how much money you have saved up. He knows the desires of your heart." I can't express how amazing it was to hear that come out of his mouth. I haven't told him that I was stressing  about money and that that was why I work Sundays after church. He already knew! You don't need to tell your bishop, your branch president, or stake president all of your concerns. Because half of the time they already know. They have that special gift to know when someone is in need of help. It is whether they act on it or not. But most of all the time they act. Actually that's an all the time they act. I'm super excited to be set apart as a missionary and have the same feeling to where I can notice someone's needs.
I went to work and said a prayer before I walked in to talk to my supervisor about not working Sundays at all anymore. I told them that I can't work due to church and needed to prepare for my mission and working on Sundays isn't giving me the blessings I need. They said that this is going to be a huge problem considering we are only open Friday Saturday and Sundays. I keep saying prayers throughout the day that they will realize why I need to be off and the blessing I will get. I thought I would be blessed for trying to make the money to serve my mission but when my branch president told me that it was all Satan's work. And I know it is. It completely changed my view of why I was working Sundays. I don't know what I'm going to do if they say I must work Sundays. I guess all I can do is pray and have faith!
Faith is a principle that I have learned to rely on a lot as I prepare for my mission. I've always had faith in my doing but I can't remember a time where life was this hard and faith is all I have to rely on. My testimony has strengthened so much today as I went to church and partook of the sacrament and to witness the Lord working through his servants. The Lord has his ways, he will make it known to you when the time is right. I've found my answer, and that is to STOP STRESSING!

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