Sister Lily Wardle Mission Letters: Week 48 - 四十八週 - September 2, 2025 - 龜山

大家好！！

Highlights:

- Me and Sister Ingrams RC (Recent Convert) from 八德 (Bade) came to visit us :)

- Exchanges with LSTLs in 三重! (Sanchong)

-Trained at Zone conference???

- Temple P Day!!

- Had an amazing district council (we do it at 9:30 so we don't waste any time) (my kind of people)

- some heartbreaking drops

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Miracle: We were finding for hours and hours one day and it felt like we were finding no friends and I almost started crying. Our finding block ended and I felt so discouraged because we were still 2 friends off from our goal. It was hard because we just had Zone conference about setting consecrated goals and trusting God's math, but it felt like nothing we did worked!

I was in the midst of telling my companion this when she looked and me and started telling me about all the miracles we saw that day. We started listing miracles, and it was in that exact moment of decision to change my mindset that someone started talking to us and became a friend. Only a few steps later, another person came up to us and became a friend too! 目標達成了！！(Goal achieved!)

This felt like a wonderful Godly chastisement. It was crystal clear to me that God wanted to do his work through me and not have me do the work alone.

We are in the palm of His hands!

Insight

Swallowed Up in the Will of the Father (Elder Maxwell) --> That's where all these quotes are from ~

"if the Master is a stranger to us, then we will merely end up serving other masters"

Some people think consecration is limiting or a mindless caving in to God--what they don't realize is that when we don't give our wills to God, we are simply giving it to something else. Work, a GPA, money, friends 等等 (etc) --because of agency, there is no passive 'inbetween'. We don't choose whether or not to give our wills--we only choose who/what we give our wills to.

Consecration allows us to be useful! When I realized this this week, the work became so much more happy. Seeking to be useful to God and others is fulfilling and helps you escape from the mind-numbing temptation to succumb to perfectionism (which is pride).

Seek to be a useful tool in the Lords hands! We are already there anyway--might as well be a good tool :)

再見！

Sister 吳ardle

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