7/6/15: Awesome Week!

This week was great! I'm out of time! I can't wait to express to you all how many miracles I have had the priveledge of seeing this past week.

So monday night all of our lessons fell through. We haven't been able to get in contact with a lot of people we were teaching, or they kept canceling, and so when Sister Robinson came in, we decided a fresh start for the teaching pool would be good. 

So yeah.Gas station. 8:30 at night. She talks to the man at the next pump over named Morteza. We've taught him for hours at the park since then. He has so many questions, but is so prepared. So cool. More on Him next week,

The new mission president is awesome! It's been so cool to see that. I love both of my mission presidents. They are so different, but I already have a relationship of trust with President Wright. That man is inspired. so cool.

Well, basically I have two more times to write an email, but I wanted to bear my testimony of enduring to the end. I know that when we cling to the gospel, and continue on with it even when we are tired, even when we are hungry, even when we don't feel like it, we receive blessings. Keeping the commandments and repenting is better than not doing that. But it will never change us until we let it sink down into our hearts. 

Serve others. Don't think about yourself. In the end, it really wasn't ever about you anyway.

Don't bury your talents. Your Heavenly Father gave you those because He knew that you needed them, but that other need them even more. So share that with others. The best talent to have is a testimony, because that is how you can light other's testimonies.

I have gained a testimony of Clean Slates on my mission... every day. Even a clean slate three weeks before you go home from you mission. The Lord needed me to hear that this week. Now I live it and believe it. Every day we can start off with a clean slate as we endure to the end, partake of the sacrament, and rely on the Savior and Redeemer of our souls who loves us and knows us personally.

CHARITY CHARITY CHARITY! That's what I am learning this last stretch of my mission. Charity is deep, unconditional. Heavenly Father has it for us, the Savior has it for us. I have it for others, as I endure to the end I become more like the Savior, and my ability to have charity for others increases. It doesn't matter what they do, I still love them. And that is such a blessing to me. Without charity, nothing else matters. 

Well. I know that this gospel is true. I bore my departing testimony this last week. President Wright asked me to sum up what I learned from my mission. As others who were going home gave their answers, I tried to come up with something grand to match, but I felt so insignificant. Then I listened to the Spirit comforting me, and knew what I needed to say, even though it wasn't grand, it was what I needed to hear myself.

"From my mission, the most important thing I have learned is that Jesus Christ is real, that He loves me, and that it's all true. All of it. This is the truth, and that to me is the most precious thing I have learned."

President Wright cried. I cried. He told me that if that is the only thing that happened, it would still all be worth it, that others would give up all they possessed to have what I have gained. I could feel the Spirit penetrate the deepest part of my heart. I am so full of gratitude for that experience.

Heavenly Father loves me. That's what I have been learning. 

He answered my prayer. The night before I had asked the Lord if my offering was acceptable. So many times this week has He answered YES.

I love my family, and I want you to know that that is my most precious desire. To be with them in the Celestial Kingdom. We will go home! There is nothing that isn't worth giving up for that!

It's so worth it. 

Love you all!

Love, 

Sister Darby Miller