𝗜𝘁’𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝗨𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲 – 𝗚𝗶𝗳𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗟𝗼𝘃𝗲. 𝗔𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗺𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗮𝘀𝘀 𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀. 𝗠𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘆 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗼. 𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗔𝗹𝗽𝗵𝗮, 𝗢𝗿𝗲𝗺𝘂𝘀, 𝗖𝗵𝗼𝘀𝗲𝗻, & 𝗙𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗹𝘆 𝗙𝗮𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
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News from Pastor in Training (P.I.T.)

When I was in FOCUS, I had the opportunity to work with many amazing and faithful lay men and women. I always enjoyed coming together for our summer training where we could reconnect and share the amazing ways that the Lord had worked in our lives. We would share everything from our daily struggles to the many graces we encountered in serving the Lord. One of the stories that remains with me to this day came from a missionary who was hesitant that she could even do this type of amazing work when she first arrived. Her dad was a deacon in the Church, and she came across FOCUS not through her own experience, but through outside recruitment. She was hired, but felt overwhelmed as she compared herself to the other missionaries. She felt like she didn’t have the ability to reach others for the Lord. However, she eventually overcame that fear and it literally changed her life.

In her first couple of years, she gained confidence and grew to trust in the Lord. Her “yes” to missionary work would eventually lead her to find her vocation and her spouse. She encountered a man who was not practicing any faith. She doubted that her invitation to him to encounter the Lord would bear any fruit, but something happened. Grace entered him, his heart was opened to the Lord, and he had a conversion of faith – which led to a deepening of their friendship. Before she knew it they were dating, which led to a proposal, marriage, and now a beautiful family.

What struck me the most was . . .

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