Hola mis amigos! All is well here in sunny AZ where January is hotter than it has any right to be. :) I'm doing well and finally out of quarantine, which is a great blessing and I pray that it is my last! I got a new companion, Hermana Kunz from Utah, and she is the sweetest girl I have ever met. I still have Hermana Conley, and with the both of them I feel super blessed. We are picking up the work again in our area and are super busy, which also makes the time fly. We like that. :)
This week we had the opportunity to hear from our southwest area presidency in a Stake conference (a leader of our church in a special meeting:). Something he said really hit home: "Suffering is mandatory. Misery is optional." He went on to explain that oftentimes people equate life's struggle to mean the absence of God's love or even the absence of a supreme being. That isn't true! Suffering does not come from Him, but sometimes He allows it for our good. We once explained that to an investigator like a child whose parent takes him into the doctor to get a shot. It does not please the parent that the anxious child must be poked with the needle, neither is it at the parents hand, however a good parent allows the "suffering" to occur only because his greater wisdom and love for his child tells him that this will be for his good. And that good would have been worth every sacrifice. So what shot is life giving you today?:) Make sure to not confuse the doctor for the parent. Suffering is mandatory, misery is optional. While the shot still hurts, the parent, your Heavenly Father is right beside you, waiting and eager to hold you hand, dry your tears, and hold you close when it's over, and he has the lollipop behind his back. That is the blessing waiting for you if you trust Him!
I'm trying to keep that in mind, to be humble enough to see the shots for what they are, and to ask for more of His comfort and help like the scripture states: " and becometh as a child, submissive, meek, humble, patient, full of love, willing to submit to all things which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon him, even as a child doth submit to his father." (Mosiah 3:19) He is there, He loves you. I love you too, thanks for taking the time to read my weeklys 
Hermana Miller
Hola mis amigos! All is well here in sunny AZ where January is hotter than it has any right to be. :) I'm doing well and finally out of quarantine, which is a great blessing and I pray that it is my last! I got a new companion, Hermana Kunz from Utah, and she is the sweetest girl I have ever met. I still have Hermana Conley, and with the both of them I feel super blessed. We are picking up the work again in our area and are super busy, which also makes the time fly. We like that. :)
This week we had the opportunity to hear from
our southwest area presidency in a Stake conference (a leader of our church in
a special meeting:). Something he said really hit home: "Suffering is
mandatory. Misery is optional." He went on to explain that oftentimes
people equate life's struggle to mean the absence of God's love or even the
absence of a supreme being. That isn't true! Suffering does not come from Him,
but sometimes He allows it for our good. We once explained that to an
investigator like a child whose parent takes him into the doctor to get a shot.
It does not please the parent that the anxious child must be poked with the
needle, neither is it at the parents hand, however a good parent allows the
"suffering" to occur only because his greater wisdom and love for his
child tells him that this will be for his good. And that good would have been
worth every sacrifice. So what shot is life giving you today?:) Make sure to
not confuse the doctor for the parent. Suffering is mandatory, misery is optional.
While the shot still hurts, the parent, your Heavenly Father is right beside
you, waiting and eager to hold you hand, dry your tears, and hold you close
when it's over, and he has the lollipop behind his back. That is the blessing
waiting for you if you trust Him!
I'm trying to keep that in mind, to be humble
enough to see the shots for what they are, and to ask for more of His comfort
and help like the scripture states: " and becometh as a child, submissive,
meek, humble, patient, full of love, willing to submit to all things which the
Lord seeth fit to inflict upon him, even as a child doth submit to his
father." (Mosiah 3:19) He is there, He loves you. I love you too, thanks
for taking the time to read my weeklys
