Not too much to say this week. Lots of visits with members and other various activities. Basically Pok Fu Lam has the sweetest souls in Hong Kong and I am in love with this ward. Everyone pray that this can be my last area.
This week was our long awaited TEMPLE DAY! I love the temple so much and I was so excited to go. Satan does this fun little trick where he tries to stop us from going to the temple, and when he realizes that he can't stop us he just tries to make the rest of our week miserable instead though any way he can, but the good news is that we survived with minimal tears shed, the temple was wonderful, and we're all still happy and loving the work. So grateful for the temple.
In other news, tomorrow marks ONE YEAR in Hong Kong! I can't even believe how fast time has gone, and looking back, I can't believe how much I have changed. For one, I'm now slightly functional in Chinese, my faith in God and His timing is so much more solid, and I'd like to think that I've become a little more Christlike on the way. So blessed.
Anyways, I hope that you're all doing well! God is real and He loves YOU. Hope you know that.
Gayuah!
Sister Wasden
郭姊妹
Pics:
CAUGHT ON CAMERA: me having the time of my life in primary
Temple fun
Ward party
Belief is the reason we go on a mission. It is the motive for preaching about Christ and sharing/Proclaiming his love. Faith is understanding we are children of God and our Heavenly Father. May this definition of faith bless you in your life. Faith is defined again and because faith has an inherent joy it gives us a solid foundation that we finally have the peace we have been searching for.
ReplyDelete"Many believer's feed themselves on what God hasn't done. When I dwell on what hasn't happened, I create the atmosphere for the spirit of offense to arise and to thrive. When I dwell on what hasn't happened, I legitimize unbelief. I live with a sense of justification, for not believing God.
Faith in the purest sense is the ceasing of resistance. even when there's no physical evidence, when the other evidence is present. Not feeding ourselves on what God hasn't done Faith in it's purest form is the absence of resistance
Heaven is a place where everyone is celebrated, some are more honored but everyone is celebrated. All men and all women shall be judged on the light which they have received. Heaven is a permissible culture. God's nature is eternally permissible. These statements protect us from credit.
Faith in the purest sense is the ceasing of resistance, even when there's no physical evidence, when the other evidence is present. Not feeding ourselves on what God hasn't done. Faith in it's purest form is the absence of resistance. Faith doesn't deny a problems existence, it denies it's influence. He or she was someone whom aridity and desolation never disturbed for he or she had a deeply rooted, and a vigorous faith.
Now we can act as we have always dreamed. Now we can act as we have always been. Now we can step into the light and gather the sunlight instead of blocking out our possibilities. Instead of blocking out our joy. Variety will bloom in/under the sun. We can show off our best, we can enjoy other people's gifts. We can blossom where we stand upon the joy that faith provides us. Upon the joy that faith inherently has, which blossoms the entire field of flowers"
.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDYaxabUfkA - The Definition of Faith