Familia y Amigos!
This week has been packed with some pretty cool experiences and learning. It was a pretty hard week as well. But before I get into those things I want to give a little bit of how my daily routine is. We wake up at 6 30 and have personal study from 7 to 8. Then we go eat breakfast. After that 9 to 11 is companion study and 11 to 12 is language study. 12 to 1 is lunch and 1 to 8 or 8 30 we go out and proselite. After that at 8 or 8 30 we eat dinner. Then at 9 30 to 10 we plan and then we get ready for bed and go to bed. And suprisingly enough the time flies! Its crazy honestly.
Okay now I want to take a couple minutes to talk about some things I have learned this week. I will start by sharing a story. So right now me and my companion are teaching a family and this family has 1 daughter who is a recent convert and the rest are investigators. The Dad isnt too intereted but the two sons are because they accepted our invitation to be baptized. BUt earlier this week, me and my companion went to go teach these two brothers and the only person home was the Dad. People here even if they are not too interested will still let you share your message, its just part of the culture here. So we taught him about baptism and the gospel of Jesus Christ. He didnt acept our message but I could tell he felt the spirit. I know he did. And right before we left, I bore my testimony to him that I know that The Gospel of Jesus Christ is what God wants all of us to follow, and that if he comes to church he will feel the love that God has for him. He didnt come. But for me, it was a special experience because I bore testomony of what I knew to be true. And I left that house with a strong spiritual feeling that I had done my part and that God loves me and God loves him. But their is more that I learned from this. I felt a strong spiritual witness that God knows me and that he is proud of me for being here serving a mission. He knows. And of course these are things all of us know. All of us know that God is there and that he knows everything. But just because we know it does not mean we are permitted from feeling the truthfulness of this over and over and over again. We can ask God to help us feel the truthfulness of all things.
So about my investigators, we have a 15 year old girl named Jennifer who is going to be baptized this week! And the two brothers will be baptized in a few weeks if they will come to church. And a cousin of a member in the ward I am serving in wants to be baptized, he is 11. So good things are happening here! I am working hard and doing all that I can to be successful. I am not the perfect missionary but I am doing my best to be the missionary that my Heavenly Father wants me to be. I think that this can apply to all of us. We can all try our best to do what we know we should and be the people our Heavenly Father wants us to be.
The language is coming along really well, I can communicate pretty well with most people, but some are easier to understand than others. The gift of tongues is definately real. Well, thats good for this week. I want to end with my testimony that I know that this church is true and that living the principles of the gospel is the way to be truly happy. I want my family to know that I love them, and I want everyone to know that I am not going to hold anything back from the Lord.
This week has been packed with some pretty cool experiences and learning. It was a pretty hard week as well. But before I get into those things I want to give a little bit of how my daily routine is. We wake up at 6 30 and have personal study from 7 to 8. Then we go eat breakfast. After that 9 to 11 is companion study and 11 to 12 is language study. 12 to 1 is lunch and 1 to 8 or 8 30 we go out and proselite. After that at 8 or 8 30 we eat dinner. Then at 9 30 to 10 we plan and then we get ready for bed and go to bed. And suprisingly enough the time flies! Its crazy honestly.
Okay now I want to take a couple minutes to talk about some things I have learned this week. I will start by sharing a story. So right now me and my companion are teaching a family and this family has 1 daughter who is a recent convert and the rest are investigators. The Dad isnt too intereted but the two sons are because they accepted our invitation to be baptized. BUt earlier this week, me and my companion went to go teach these two brothers and the only person home was the Dad. People here even if they are not too interested will still let you share your message, its just part of the culture here. So we taught him about baptism and the gospel of Jesus Christ. He didnt acept our message but I could tell he felt the spirit. I know he did. And right before we left, I bore my testimony to him that I know that The Gospel of Jesus Christ is what God wants all of us to follow, and that if he comes to church he will feel the love that God has for him. He didnt come. But for me, it was a special experience because I bore testomony of what I knew to be true. And I left that house with a strong spiritual feeling that I had done my part and that God loves me and God loves him. But their is more that I learned from this. I felt a strong spiritual witness that God knows me and that he is proud of me for being here serving a mission. He knows. And of course these are things all of us know. All of us know that God is there and that he knows everything. But just because we know it does not mean we are permitted from feeling the truthfulness of this over and over and over again. We can ask God to help us feel the truthfulness of all things.
So about my investigators, we have a 15 year old girl named Jennifer who is going to be baptized this week! And the two brothers will be baptized in a few weeks if they will come to church. And a cousin of a member in the ward I am serving in wants to be baptized, he is 11. So good things are happening here! I am working hard and doing all that I can to be successful. I am not the perfect missionary but I am doing my best to be the missionary that my Heavenly Father wants me to be. I think that this can apply to all of us. We can all try our best to do what we know we should and be the people our Heavenly Father wants us to be.
The language is coming along really well, I can communicate pretty well with most people, but some are easier to understand than others. The gift of tongues is definately real. Well, thats good for this week. I want to end with my testimony that I know that this church is true and that living the principles of the gospel is the way to be truly happy. I want my family to know that I love them, and I want everyone to know that I am not going to hold anything back from the Lord.