This week has been so full
of so many spiritual experiences and amazing things that I have learned that I
honestly cant write them down. Some stuff I have learned through the spirit and
none of it is something that I can write. Most of them are just feelings and
answers to prayers. It’s been a really amazing week.
This week’s email is mainly going to be
about the conference that we had this week. I was lucky to be able to meet
Elder Kearon of the 70 and to get to be in 2 conferences with him. One was for the
leaders of our mission and the other was for our zone. It was one of the most
amazing weeks of my mission and I will never forget the things that I learned.
The first thing that I wanted to share was
something that is so true in our church. Church members thrive off of
opposition. If we look back in church history we can see that it has been rough
for a while and there will always be opposition. The reason why Elder Kearon
shared this with us was because as missionaries we need to learn to thrive off of
rejection and the hard things we are going through on a mission. To be honest I
feel like I learned this lesson a while ago from playing football and doing
sprints at the end of practice. If you go hard and put everything you have into
the sprint and just about kill yourself you will be so much better next
practice and even faster. Same goes for missionary work. We get rejected and
mean stuff said to us and we get just a whole lot of opposition as a missionary
and I honestly love it. Whenever someone is rude to us or is trying to be mean
or say stuff to us it just gets me pumped and my companion has to calm me down
all the time so I don’t just flip out on people ha-ha. After getting rejected
the next door is even better and makes me want to work even harder so it’s a
good lesson to learn.
The next thing I learned was that we need to
be the architect of our own success. If you want to be successful then go out
and be successful and put your mind to it and if it’s not working then you need
to do more or do something differently. I loved this because it’s really true. Everyone
has 24 hours in a day it just depends on what you do with those hours to get
work done!!
I also heard this super cool quote. "You
bring your own weather to the picnic" I love this. You have to make the
decision every day whether or not you will be happy or sad. Which leads into
another thing I learned that it’s a choice not chance that determines your
destiny. So find what you want, and go out and get it. I’m getting pumped up
just writing this stuff. Do I sound like a public speaker yet?
Now to get more spiritual I want to talk
about prayer and something that has really helped me to make prayer a much more meaningful thing in my
life. We need to pray like we are drowning. Like it is the last ditch effort
before we are going to go under the water. Because it is!! If we are not begging
for the help of our Heavenly Father we will never grow or be able to have the
strength to over come the trials of life. So how do we do this? It’s simple.
Pray like you can’t do anything else, like it all depends on God and then wake
up and work through the day like it all depends on you and then repeat. God
will bless us if we put it all on him and then work as hard as we can.
I will come back to the conference but I
wanted to give and update on our investigators. They are all doing great and we
are having so much success. We had such a great week and they are all doing so
well. We did not have the baptism interview for Attila and Dora yet because
they have not yet stopped drinking coffee and tea but we bought them tea that
is allowed and they love it so it’s not going to be a problem. We are super
excited!! We had an amazing teaching with them and we talked about fasting and
they fasted with us this Sunday and they said they loved it. We were super
proud of them and then the next day Dora read 100 pages in the Book of
Mormon... talk about the power of fasting. So it’s all going really well and
this will for sure be a week that anyone should ask me to explain when I get
home because I am leaving out a lot but this week was really amazing.
To finish I want to finish with the
message that hit me the most from the conference. It was that we need to become
the message. I have realized that that right there is the point and goal of a
missionary. If you can be the message all you need to do is open your mouth and
people will accept the gospel. So for the last couple months of my mission that
is what I will be working on. Is being the message. Being happy. Being kind.
Serving and helping because that’s what I am here to do and preaching the
Gospel, and I will open my mouth if I have to. I believe that we can share the
gospel with all those that are around us just by who we are. So.. Be the
message! I love you all. Have a great week.
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