Grateful to miss my missionary

I’m going to share a story from my daughter’s letter to her dad this last week. My daughter is on a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She will serve for 18 months. She can e-mail us once a week. She can also send letters which we usually get once a week. She can call or skype us two times a year: Christmas and Mother’s Day. I miss her and am more grateful for this opportunity for her than I ever imagined.

“The other day we were leaving an appointment to park at the church to go tracting. I went to turn the key in the truck and it wouldn’t turn! I remembered that the Hyundai used to do that and you told me to just turn the wheel and that would unlock it. Only it didn’t work. Sister S was upset at me, because she thought I broke the truck. I told her it wasn’t broken but we just needed to figure out the trick. She wasn’t impressed. I wanted so bad just to call you. I knew if I called you that you could fix it. We said a prayer. The wheel turning thing still didn’t work. We called three different people for help and no one answered. I wanted more than anything just to call you and you could help me. I thought of your phone number in my head and the phone was in my hand. But guess what, I didn’t call you. Just then Brother C (an 82 year-old man that I had called for help) called us back. He told us about the wheel turning trick. I tried and it didn’t work. He said he was getting in his truck to come get us, even though he lives twenty minutes away. I told him to walk us through it again, and all of a sudden, it worked. It was a miracle and he didn’t have to get us. I love you! Someday I will be able to call you for help with all my dumb problems.
Love,
Sister RH”

This story teaches me that:

1. She loves her dad.
2. She listened to her dad when she lived at home.
3. She knows how to pray.
4. She is obedient.
5. The Lord lets us put in effort and use what we know before providing a way.
6. The Lord often provides an answer to our prayers through someone else.
7. She is a good story teller.

​I look forward to the day when she can call us with all her dumb problems. But I’m willing to wait, because she is gaining skills, experience, and conversion that will be invaluable.