The past couple of weeks have been so busy that we haven't had time nor energy [long days!] to add to our blog. Please excuse. However, this coming week is transfers again, plus Sister Hawley is hosting not one, not two, but three dinners at our flat -- two for missionaries being transferred, and one for our couple missionaries' Family Home Evening on Monday night. So, having read a short quote or two from Elder Hawley's brother's wife on their blog that impressed us, we are giving another Sister Hawley credit for this week's entry. See the photo above: Elder Jerry & Sister Marilyn Hawley, currently serving an 18-month CES mission for the LDS Church in Tonga. Here they are in Tongan dress, standing in front of the Tongan LDS Temple there.
"A grandson of ours loves to work with clay. He finds it' not easy to mold and form it into his desired shape, however. It takes practice, practice, practice; and long hours of work and patience. Each of us is like a piece of clay with the potential to be molded and shaped into a beautiful and useful vessel. However, sometimes flaws or errors appear that must be repaired.... [Sometimes] when the clay is placed in the fiery furnace of the potter's kiln it will break or crumble.
We do not reach our full potential until we have been through the fiery heat of the potter's kiln--the trials of our lives. Then as we truly repent and center our lives in Christ, through the power of the Atonement we will come forth from the fire transformed into an eternal being of beauty." [Marilyn Hawley]
Thank you for that quote we need that. We love you guys Again thank you!
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