Trial Experiences

Hello! 

I first would love to say a big Happy Father’s Day to all the great dads out there. I hope you all had great days and had a lot of people tell you how important you are. You truly make a difference in the life of all your kids and grand-kids and people all around you. 

So this week we had a Zone Conference. Zone Conferences always bring feelings of inadequacy, but also feelings of hope and of the Spirit and that's what I personally like to focus on. This Zone Conference, in particular, was super cool. We learned all about how to gain more member trust. The coolest part was this little ten-minute visit role-play activity that we did. Sister Robertson and I got to meet the Adams family (*snap snap) and they are the coolest people. (Totally real people by the way). Their daughter (who wasn't able to come to the activity) has a desire to go on a mission but she is hesitant because of her anxiety and depression. Sister Robertson and I were then both able to tell our stories to Sister Adams and she said that we were an answer to her prayers. She is setting up a time with us sometime this week where they will take us out to lunch and we can meet her daughter in person and talk to her. It's pretty cool. 

The cool thing about this too is that this type of stuff happens all the time here. We are constantly getting to use our own what I like to call "trial experiences" to relate to others. It just makes me so grateful for all the hard times I have been through and reminds me that God truly lets us go through those experience for a reason. They are hard but they are for our growth AND so we can help others.

Be grateful for your trial experiences. Let others help you with your trials. Give help to others. I promise as you do these things life becomes a lot more enjoyable and bearable. 

Love, 

Sister Aase