Hello!!
Wow, this last week was crazy! We weren't able to meet with E___, but we made plans with the S___'s to have dinner with them and E___'s whole family in a couple weeks. We were also able to go and visit another family named the K___'s, and their son E___ who is pretty nice and we are hoping to teach him in the future.
On
Tuesday
we had a mission conference with Elder Kopishke of the 70 that was super legit
and revelatory! He talked lots about receiving personal revelation and acting
on promptings. He talked about how in Doctrine and Covenants 82: 3-4, it says
that when we receive revelation, but then break or don't follow it, we are
'condemned'. To explain, he took a piece of paper and put it on the floor and
asked how thick it was. Apparently, according to one Elder, it is 7 one thousandths
of an inch thick (not very thick). He stood on that piece of paper and
said "if this is all the light we have, and we are condemned, we
only fall 0.007 inches. But if we were standing on the podium, and were
condemned, we would have a whole lot further to fall!" So then we talked
about ways to use revelation and to avoid being condemned. It was good stuff!
My
favorite quote came from Sister Alexander, who said "every little effort
you make on your mission is counted, and is not wasted." Another plus of
the meeting is that I got to hear about
J___ from some sisters who had served their recently! Man, I love that
guy!
Our
Relief Society President told us that there was a Sister they had been writing
letters to, and just this last week she emailed back and said she would like to
meet with the missionaries! It was a tender mercy because we had tried hard all
week to see some good things, but lots of plans fell through. It strengthened
my testimony of the things President and Sister Alexander talked about at
mission tour. I know that when we do all we can, no small effort is wasted.
P___ loved church, and she came again this week! Later in the week, we got to go out with our Bishop on some visits to Brother R___ and to P___. She said going to church had really helped her throughout the week. :D She is the best. I'll send a picture of her either today or next week. Brother R___ also is doing well. He just has it so rough. He says he is getting better slowly but surely, and he does eventually hope to get back to church, but he has never been to this building without his wife. I feel so deeply for him too, and I'm going to miss him.
P___ loved church, and she came again this week! Later in the week, we got to go out with our Bishop on some visits to Brother R___ and to P___. She said going to church had really helped her throughout the week. :D She is the best. I'll send a picture of her either today or next week. Brother R___ also is doing well. He just has it so rough. He says he is getting better slowly but surely, and he does eventually hope to get back to church, but he has never been to this building without his wife. I feel so deeply for him too, and I'm going to miss him.
Speaking
of missing people, I am getting transferred this Tuesday. I will miss the people
here.
Now, not to be nostalgic or sappy or anything, but I was thinking about missions last week, and I came up with this summation. Missions can be stupid-hard sometimes when nothing is going on, and they are way challenging, but it is so worth it whenever you are able to actually teach someone. You get all excited and happy and it's just the greatest feeling ever. Haha, and I can't wait to find more of that wherever I go next!
Now, not to be nostalgic or sappy or anything, but I was thinking about missions last week, and I came up with this summation. Missions can be stupid-hard sometimes when nothing is going on, and they are way challenging, but it is so worth it whenever you are able to actually teach someone. You get all excited and happy and it's just the greatest feeling ever. Haha, and I can't wait to find more of that wherever I go next!
Thanks for all you do! You're the bestestest!
Elder TooBlessedToBeStressed Branch
SO I
don't know if y'all heard about experiences of children seeing 2 angels holding
up President Monson at conference, but there were 2 kids in our ward, both with
autism, who saw them too! This is one of the pictures they drew the night
of conference. Pretty neat!
Training
A few of the awesome people I'll miss in Greensboro
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