brittany lu: Mangere Bridge July-Oct 12 week program

One day my dear President Lekias extended a call to me to train in the English program. I had only been in NZ for 4 weeks. I had mixed feelings and didn't know how to feel. I knew I was still a young missionary and I felt inadequate in so many ways. I was afraid of letting my future companion down, I was afraid of letting my president's expectations of me down, I was afraid that I could never be as good a trainer as my trainer was. And above all I was afraid of letting Heavenly Father down. I fasted like a mug. :) I prayed like crazy. The answer that entered my heart was simple..... "Sister Porter- it is not about you." See, I was so busy stressing about how "I" would do, or if "I" were good enough- But the lesson of humility has made an eternal imprint on my heart and in my life. :) Elder Halleck of the 70 said:

"Humility does not come by thinking less of yourself; but by thinking less about yourself." ...Those 12 short weeks I spent training Sister Phillips were some of the most Beautiful, Difficult, Faith Building, Miracle Filled weeks of my life! And I will never forget them! Til this day, she is one of my closest friends :) It is a part of our mortal experience that we have weaknesses; but everyone also has strengths! I would soon learn much about that.

We have a theory that we were best friends in heaven before we came to earth.

But that the world wouldn't know what to do with us if we were both born on the same continent. So of course God would allow us to find each other again, and have us be companions all the way in New Zealand :)