Puzzle Pieces

Hey Everyone!

Can you believe that it is already SEPTEMBER!?! This is unreal how fast time is flying! I feel like I was just sitting at this computer yesterday emailing you all. My Mission brain is definitely getting worse and worse and WORSE! I can't remember any song titles or friends last names, let alone usernames & passwords as I'm having to apply back to school....yuck.

Yesterday my lovely companion and I went and ate some good 'ol Asian food at Pei-Wei and I'm almost a little freaked out about how inspired my fortune cookie was......."All the puzzles in your life will be understood within the next year" But in order to explain why it freaked me out, let me back track a little bit.

On Wednesday and Thursday we did MTE's (Missionary Training Exchanges). We spent 3 1/2 hrs each day listening to instruction from our Mission President and his Assistants. One of the main topics they discussed and taught us was about how to "ask, seek, and knock". We see that phrase SO many times in the scriptures & it makes you wonder why it is so important to Heavenly Father that He has to keep repeating it over & over again? President Schmitt related it back to receiving personal revelation. The only way for us to know of spiritual truths is through the Holy Ghost. But in order for the Holy Ghost to confirm something in our hearts, we have to have a question or a solution in our hearts for Him to even confirm & guide us! So the only way for us to receive personal revelation (the only way to receive answers from God) is by ASKING Him through prayer, SEEKING for His answers through the scriptures or in our day to day lives, and KNOCKING by acting on the answer through diligent obedience & faith.

As I was sitting there soaking it all in, I had SO many "light bulb!" moments that illuminated my mind. But I know it was because I went to that meeting with questions in my heart! I realized how often I only halfheartedly ask Heavenly Father questions. My prayers used to be more like "Please help us to know what to do at this time" "Please help me to be better". But now I've seen God's hand even more in my life as I instead say in my prayers things like: "Father, what would Thou have us to do at this time? Would Thou have us to go see_____?" "What do I need to work on so that I can be more Christ-like?" "How can I better teach ____ about faith?"

As I have started doing that I have truly gained SUCH a strong testimony about how Heavenly Father is just WAITING for us to ask Him things & how sooo many blessings are dependent on us asking, seeking, and knocking. I feel like Heavenly Father is putting so many of the "Puzzle Pieces" of my life in order. On top of that, we even taught the Mia Maids this past Sunday about how our lives are like "Puzzles" but how Heavenly Father has provided us with a road map that helps us to put the right pieces in place (i.e, The Gospel of Jesus Christ, having a Modern Day Prophet, etc)

I just LOVE how Heavenly Father connects all of the dots together in my mind! I honestly have no idea what I would do with out! As I'm digging my heels into the ground trying to slow down these last 2 months, Heavenly Father is teaching me a lot about how I need to better trust in His plan & in His timing. I need to trust that He knows EXACTLY where each puzzle piece belongs & that at some point in the future, I will have a better understanding of why each piece has it's certain place.

I hope all of this makes sense, I feel like I just had a mind explosion on the computer haha But at least I know it makes sense in my mind and that Heavenly Father is truly teaching me so much!

I love you all!

xoxo Sister Morgan