Life Lessons

Week 84

08 August 2016

Bula Everyone,

This week has being a week of drama's. Oi auue a lot happened throughout this week and it has taught me a lot about one specific principle being "Facing your Fears". 

Let me tell you why. This one on Wednesday one of the sisters in my District did something that was a tad silly, nothing of which would send her home but it was a scary experience for the people involved. After she had realized what she had done, she was so scared, shy and embarrassed she said to face the person she had done wrong to. I told her "you need to face him, apologize and talk things out. If you don't you will always be afraid of him but others that you might do wrong to." 

There were other experiences as well.

These experiences I had throughout this week, I found it interesting on how they all had something relatively similar. Fear was present in the each situation. As I thought about these individually, I remembered the words from a movie back home. Its called, "Diary of a Mad Black Woman." Its one of the many movie's from Tyler Perry, featuring the famous Mabel (Madea) Simmons. In one scene a mother talks to her daughter saying "When you don't forgive somebody for doing wrong to you. Then that person that did wrong to you, has a sense of power over you & he will keep that power."

What I learned from that reference was that when we do not face our fears, our fears will continually face us. If you do not solve the problem, then the problem will always remain there, in front of you or on the side or even at the back of your minds no matter how hard you try to foget about it. Then when it comes to similar experiences you will just feel the same. 

If the Sister that did wrong, does not face up to the fear of apologizing and make amends. Every time she see that person, every time she comes across similar situations she will always run back, hide in her shell. Holding herself back from the happiness and healing that comes with facing your fears and seeking forgiveness.

What I'm trying to get at is that fear is a normal part of our life here on earth. Lehi from the Book of Mormon teaches us that there must be opposition in all things. Happiness & sadness, Love & Hate, Confidence and Shyness. With the many challenges we face in life, fear is one of those of them. If we do not face our fears, the fears will always face us. By that I mean, for example I will always be afraid of the dark if I never go out at night. The more I expose myself to the dark the more comfortable I become with it and the fear begins to drift away.

Gladly the Sister Missionary made amends, and is once again happy, bright and full of energy & life. Because of her decision to face her fears she has received freedom & unlocked the door that seemed closed forever.

I am grateful to Heavenly Father for providing me with the knowledge I have learned from these experiences. I am thankful to have had these lessons come to me in my life, its so interesting and mind boggling. I love it, I really do.

I know i have written another novel, but this is how I think. The work is wonderful. We are busy, busy, busy, we had the baptism of Jona last week and his family attended, as well as church the next day and they have said they wanted to take the lessons and be baptised.

I am grateful, so grateful to the ward for their fellowship, my Father in Heaven for his blessings and miracles and i am grateful to my family for the guidance. I am grateful for my mission. 

Love you all, take care. xoxox