Prayer. Answered.

Hey friends and family,

So the Lord answers prayers. Everyone´s prayers. Also, Satan knows you and knows how to push your buttons.

So let´s just start off by saying that Sunday is the best day. Second only to pday. On Sunday I woke up feeling a little discouraged about this whole idea of being on a mission trip for 18 months until I got to choir. Yes, everyone, I am in choir. I shower everyday and I´m in choir and I actually sing, I don´t just mouth the words. The choir director was absolutely amazing and as we sang Consider the Lilies (shout out to the Jerucrew!) he talked all about how we are literal sons and daughters of Heavenly parents and how we might not understand how much love that is until we are parents but it´s a LOT of love. Then devotional was amazing with Stephen B Allen who is head of the MTC department or something for the churhc. He talked all about how sometimes on the mission we get discouraged or we doubt or we get scared about our missions but that is just Satan pushing our buttons. He asked how many of us had thought about going home and it was a little comforting to know that almost everyone stood up (except my companion who is a dedicated saint) but that we are all still here. That means that we all have been kicking Satan in the face and pushing on and relying on the Lord. Then we had the opportunity to listen to a bunch of different talks from when general authorities would come and speak at the MTC and we ended up on accident at Richard G Scott´s talk on prayers. he talked all about how we need to ponder, pray and sometimes decide before we get a confirmation so that the Lord can act on our actions. When all three of those talks were combined, it was an answer to my prayers and I realized that is what I want to give the people of Vancouver. How cool is it that we have the knowledge that we have a Heavenly Father (Tianfu) that loves us with an infinite love and we can talk with Him anytime we want and He will answer us! Seriously the coolest. Unfortunately, I didn´t put all three of these talks until I wrote it in my journal and before that I watched the Feel Again video and it was just another reminder of God´s love for us. That He gave me an AMAZING family and we have the Atonement so that we can live with our families again and that it´s through the Atonement that we can find comfort even when we are feeling a teensy bit lonely on a Sunday night. During companionship prayer that night my companion said the prayer in Chinese and even though I barely understood her, both of us were bawling by the end because the Spirit was so strong. S we gave an awkward hug at the end, I climbed up on my bunkbed and tried to go to sleep. As I was trying to go to sleep, my companion was still sobbing so I climbed back down and rubbed her back for a bit. 

The next day when we were planning to teach our investigator, we really were struggling. We couldn´t figure out what we wanted to teach her and how we wanted to plan. we had about two hours to plan and got nowhere. In the last twenty minutes, we were both inspired to sing I am a Child of God in chinese. We felt so good about it and the lesson went so well! Even though I still speak in broken chinglish, the Spirit was so strong in there and we taught her all about jesus christ and the atonement. I always want to start speaking spanish when I don´t know a word. Dumb spanish missionaries have it so easy!

Als, at lunch they had cheetos and I just closed my eyes and pictured myself on the back of the boat sailing. It´s really the little things here that make life so great.

Wo ai nimen!

Sis. DeMordaunt

 

Shout outs!

Liv= the boots are amazing! I wear them every single day!

Tawnya= thanks for the dear elder! A letter is on it´s way back to you!

 

PS

someone feed Tuffy!