she can do hard things

This has been an especially though week for me. My daughter has been testing my parenting skills to the MAX. I have been struggling with it and on the edge of tears almost every day.

I was going through some important papers yesterday and came across the letter my mission president sent my stake president right before I was to come home. He said "Sis Upchurch has been an excellent missionary & she has trained lots of new missionaries. Be sure to give her hard assignments because she is used to them." This made me reflect on the many "greenie" companions I had on my mission & how many of them were difficult or stubborn in some way or another. I could not trade them in for another model I had to learn to love them and depend on my Heavenly Father because I had no one else. Now as I am a parent I am kind of facing the same thing except I am not alone I have a loving and supportive husband and friends and of course a Father in Heaven who know all. I realized he "my Father in Heaven" is giving me "hard assignments" so he must think I can grow from them. I pray that I can become who he wants me to be.