Hooray For The Holy Ghost!   

MTC - Week 4

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!! I love Thanksgiving! Gratitude is such a happy emotion and can help our problems seem small. I'm so grateful to be a missionary, every week I learn so much. 

This week two particularly awesome things happened, first of all, Elder Oaks came to the MTC! He gave a wonderful message on WHY we do missionary work, and HOW. He talked about how we really can't fully do the how if we don't know the why. That can be applied to every principle of the gospel, if we know the why the how becomes something we want to do. I know that we can learn the why through pray, study, and personal revelation. God lives and He will give answers to any of us that ask with sincere desire to know and the intention to act upon our answer. 

The second super awesome thing, Sisar P and I were teaching a lesson and our investigator asked a question that we did not understand at all. She repeated it, rephrased it, and finally threw her hands in the air. We were so sad that we couldn't help her. Sisar P then turned to me and whispered "bear testimony" so I did. I looked at our investigator, and in broken Finnish I bore testimony of the law of tithing. After our lesson, our investigator thanked us for answering her question so well, she thought we didn't even understand her. We were so confused because we didn't understand her, but it turns out that I answered her question in my testimony. That minun ystäväni (my friend) is the power of the Holy Ghost! "And by the power of the Holy Ghost ye may know the truth of all things." Moroni 10:5. The Spirit is what teaches our lessons, not us, and thank goodness for that! There's no way we could do what we do without the Holy Ghost to guide us. I am so grateful for the comfort and peace that comes through the knowledge that the Lord always has my back. If I can just open my mouth, He can provide the words.

I hope you all have a great week and awesome kiitospäivää!!'
Much Love, Sisar Mendenhall