I hope as always that you are enjoying life and that you are seeing miracles and blessing no matter how great or small in your day-to-day.
This past week has gone by too fast and the transfer is almost over! I feel like last transfer just started!! Anywho, this week has also been one full of learning and growth opportunities! We saw some challenges, and we had to learn that it is through patience, gratitude and obedience that we come out stronger, not weaker. As a wise man has once told me, "The way that you react to the experience will be just as important as the experience itself."
An interesting lesson that I have had to learn from this experiences is that we need to be willing to accept blessings into our lives to bless others and to be a blessing ourselves. Our Heavenly Father has given us many different talents and capabilities to bless the world and our fellow people that live here with us! How cool is that?! We each have a role to play to increase the joy and peace that can be felt in the world! (2 Nephi 2:25, D&C 58:26-28, Mormon 7:7, James 3:18, John 14:27)
The greatest challenge we had was that it was Genocide Memorial Week here in Rwanda. This meant that we could not be out teaching people from 2-5pm every day from Sunday-Friday. While it was only three hours a day, it made a difference. It became difficult to visit people that we wanted to or to meet goals that we had set the week previous. However, I can promise that this was not the defining quality of this week. What made it all come together was that I started to see the compensatory blessings amidst the blessings I was seeking. Truly, we are not left alone. If you do the best that you can to do what is expected of you or that you desire to accomplish you will reap the rewards of what you sow. (2 Nephi 25:23)
All it takes is a little patience on our part, mixed with faith, and with time your best of efforts no matter how small will build up into previously unseen success!
I love each and every one of you and I hope that you continue to work towards your goals and dreams diligently and patiently!!
1) I made tacos
2-4) Service for Sister Redempta ft. Elder Mdletshe looking like a boss
5-8) Flowers we found in a rich neighborhood the other day
Love,
Elder O'Hagan
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