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June 4, 2018 A miracle that happened to me this week..
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June 4, 2018
Another one gone by. Well another quick week! I can't believe it's already June! This transfer has been going by pretty fast I'm not going to lie. I'm already in week 5 with my comp I feel like he just came! It's a good thing though for sure. Means we are staying busy I guess. Some days feel like forever but then I look back a couple weeks later thinking it was yesterday ahha. I truly see so many miracles everyday, some days we start off with nothing on our schedule but to find new people to teach and we almost always end up having something come up or being able to teach a lesson. It's is a big blessing as it makes time go by so much faster!! I love serving and I know it's exactly what I'm supposed to be doing but it's always good to have lots to do to make the time fly haha . I had the opportunity to study up on miracles and came across some amazing ones in the scriptures and had some in my life this past week. I found this in the guide to the scriptures "Miracles are an important element in the work of Jesus Christ... Miracles are a part of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Faith is necessary in order for miracles to be manifested.". I love that, this gospel is a gospel of miracles and we can expect them as we exercise faith and put forth the work to put ourselves in a place where we can experience miracles. The scriptures always say it best "For behold, I am God; and I am a God of miracles; and I will show unto the world that I am the same yesterday, today, and forever; and I work not among the children of men save it be according to their faith." (2 Nephi 27:23). This is a great scripture as it proves God still participates in the practice of miracles here on this earth! God is "The same yesterday, today, and forever", so if there was miracles in the past they are still happening and will continue to happen. So because I was just wanting to make sure there were miracles in the past, I started to search if I could think of any miracles in MY life or in the scriptures. One that popped into my head right away that I am sure alot of us have heard of and or are very familiar with is Moses parting the Red Sea. The bible dictionary explains it well and says "Between Egypt and Arabia. Probably best known because it was miraculously parted so that the Israelites under Moses’ leadership could pass through on dry ground, whereas the armies of Pharaoh were drowned". As that short description says "it was miraculously parted" not a coincidence... I repeat not a coincidence. So we can now see God does still produce miracles as we have the faith. Ether 12:12 says "For if there be no faith among the children of men God can do no miracle among them; wherefore, he showed not himself until after their faith.". So we learn from this passage and from the example of Moses that faith is a key component of miracles. So when people say miracles don't happen you can tell them they are very wrong hahahahaha. I'll share an experience of a miracle that happened this week for me. We had one of those days where we pretty much had contacting (finding people to teach on the street) from 11am to around 4:30pm....I was kinda like-O man this might be a LONG day haha. Well about two hours into finding downtown Waterloo my companion and I decide to go to this park that is about a five minute walk just to check it out and see if there was anyone we could talk to there. As we were walking through this park we ran into a sweet guy we ran into about a month earlier in a completely different spot! He has been struggling with drugs such has LSD, Mushrooms and so on. He is about 2 years older then me and honestly is the coolest guy ever. He loves to skate (skateboard) and that's what he said got him into the bad seen he is trying to get out of now. As we started to talk to him we decided to invite him to do some service with us that we do every Thursday. He was so pumped and excited to be able to have a good excuse to get out of his bad environment he is in at the moment. If that's not a miracle that we ran into him again I don't know what is. Kitchener Waterloo area is over a couple hundred thousand people!!!! We ran into the exact same guy who needed help at that exact time... that's not a coincidence! Miracles do still happen and do not stop happening in our lives when we have faith and want to help and serve others. Anyone. I can name so many more but I won't because its getting hard to type haha 🤙. But I invite all of you to recognize and think of the miracles in your life and write them down. As we look back and think of all these miracles we will truly see God's hand in all of our lives at sometime or another. If by chance you can't think of any, go and put yourselves where you CAN make miracles happen and have faith that it will happen and I promise you, you will start to recognize these amazing experiences. Well keep it real, love you all and keep being awesome 🤙
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