Trial of Faith

Ether 12:6 "..wherefore dispute not because ye see not, for ye recieve no witness until after the trial of your faith"

The other day my companion and I were walking around in an area, trying to talk to people, but it seemed like no one wanted to listen to us, well this had been happening the whole week. We were starting to get discouraged, and I was close to just giving up and going to another area to try to find people, when I decided to just go a little longer in the area, when we happened to see 2 young girls playing jump rope. After talking to them for a minute, we explained who we were and started to talk to them, when eventually their older and younger sisters came out and started to listen to us. The parents were busy cleaning a home, but when they were finished we were able to explain to them who were are and what is our message. They agreed to let us come visit them and we have plans to visit them on wednesday. It was such a cool experience, because it was a testimony to me and my companion that as we seek the miracles in our lives and expect miracles to happen they will, but only after the trial of our faith. If we just give up when things get hard we will never grow and we will miss out on so many wonderful oportunities to recieve blessings from our Heavenly Father. I want to encourage all of you to remember this scripture and to remember that many times as we seek for something that we want, even something for our benefit, we won't recieve it right away, but after we have struggled and show our faith to God.