Mormon Monday

Missionaries.

My generation is full of them.

I possibly have more friends on missions than not.

Which is amazing.

But with missionaries come missionary farewells.

I went to a farewell on March 9. It was for a girl who I have known since I started elementary school. She has ALWAYS been there for me. Even though I had other friends, she was there. When I was lost and heart broken and didn't know who I could turn to she was there.

  

Her farewell was full of the Spirit. I was crying because I was going to miss her but also because I hadn't felt the Spirit like that at church before. I was overwhelmed.

Her talk was about simple things become great things.

She started out talking about a song she was trying to learn. It was "As Sisters in Zion" arranged by Marshall McDonald. She said that this song was difficult for her because of the key change and difficult cords. She compared this gaining a testimony. She had to learn the song note by note, line by line, and page by page. Just like learning a song, we have to take our testimonies by baby steps. We can't get a testimony just because we demand it. She continued with 4 guides to gain a testimony.

1. Have a relationship with God and Christ. We need meaningful time with them.

2. Keep the Commandments. We need to live the commandments and exercise faith.

3. Study the scriptures. How can we gain a testimony of something we know nothing about?

4. Follow the living prophet. 

There isn't one great thing we can do to gain eternal life, but rather the little things. For our lives are made up of little heartbeats.

To apply this back to the music she told us that she would going to make mistakes in the song. Even thought she tried to get it perfect it just wasn't going to happen. She tried her best but the song wasn't perfect. Which was okay. She couldn't let the fear of messing up keep her from playing the music.

She said that even though she fears she won't be a perfect missionary she is going to try. She wasn't going to let the lack of perfection keep her from living the gospel.

She was simply building her testimony one note at a time.

Heidi & Brianna