Thursday 22 June 2017

There is simply no TEST until there is ADVERSITY!

13th June, 2017
To Liverpool I go - Goodbye Bathurst!

Hello! 

Happy Tuesday everyone! Transfers happened yesterday and guess who is in Liverpool now? Yes...I got transferred- Wattle Grove Ward is where it's at now! Let me tell you, I got a shock to see so many people, so many cars and so many buildings! hahahaha Bathurst can do that to you q: q: 


My new companion is Sister Taeu from Samoa! 
She has been out 2 transfers and I am super excited to be working with her here! We are shotgunning the area (starting fresh) all four of the elders got taken out and my soa and I are going to take over the area! So this will be a fun transfer! 




We have already been lost so many times; we even went to the wrong building and started trying to fit our key into the door and we were wondering why it wouldn't unlock and open....nekk minnit this guy opens the door and we were in the wrong building - it was the next door. It was so funny, so we introduced ourselves, explained what our purpose is and then invited him to learn more! He said no but heeeeey thats alright. So adventures are happening here in Wattle Grove Ward and we haven't even hit 24 hours!

Tenacity. Tenacity is persistence, perseverance, stubborn determination, a quality displayed by someone who won't quit - who keeps trying until they reach their goal. Tenacity is starting to be one of my favourite words!

We need tenacity in order to become TRUE DISCIPLES of Jesus Christ and to achieve the truly good goals! 

What good goals do you have? Our ability to be tenacious in all good things will determine whether we BECOME the sons and daughters of God that He knows we can and must become. We all have goals that we want to accomplish and sometimes things will not go exactly to plan in achieving it. When adversity, trials and challenges come, we must decide whether our faith is strong enough to continue and whether we will put our trust in God continually. 

We must always remember, there is simply no TEST until there is ADVERSITY!

Alma 57:27
"They (the stripling warriors) are young, and their minds are firm, and they do put their trust in God continually."

Alma 53:20-21
"And they were all young men, and they were exceedingly valiant for courage, and also for strength and activity; but behold this was not all - they were men who were true at all times in whatsoever thing they were entrusted.
Yea, they were men of truth and soberness, for they had been taught to keep the commandments of God and to walk uprightly before him."

The terms valiant, courageous, strong, active and true are used to describe the stripling warriors. Do these terms describe you and your efforts to reach your goals? If they are, how can you better your efforts even further? If they are not, what changes need to be made for you to develop these characteristics as you seek to reach your goal?

My invitation to you is to be TENACIOUS as you seek to reach your goals - whatever it may be! I promise you that as you do this, you will get there. It will not always be easy, it will not always be in your timing but it will be worth the pain, worth the time and worth the sweat because the Lord has His time for everything. The blessings and the success that you seek will come. Press on. Journey on. Stay on.

Alma 26:27
"Now when our hearts were depressed and we were about to turn back, behold the Lord comforted us, and said: Go amongst thy brethren, the Lamanites and bear with patience thine afflictions, and I will give unto you success."

The Lord promises us that as we bear with patience (prolonged obedience) our adversity, our set backs, our challenges and our trials that he will give us success. We must continue to be tenacious!

I love you!

Sister Roos
Wattle Grove Ward
Liverpool

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