The work
So its kinda different here in
Kearns. I only cover 2 wards and my area is super small! I swear the
other day we walked past the same house like 4 times! And we walk
everywhere. We could use our bikes, but if we use our bikes we would
have to lock them up and its really annoying to lock them up after we go
to every house so we just walk. The ward members are great and their
really sweet, but the wards are really small. In one of my wards there
are supposed to be 600 members and only about 100 are active! So we have
a lot of work to do. In another ward it's really challenging to keep an
up to date list of members because we have apartments and people are
always moving in and out of the area. In my short number of days being
here I have learned how important it is to know and love our neighbors.
We need to serve one another and let others serve us. When we do things
like that connections between one another grows and we can better invite
them to know more about the love the Savior has for them.
The sisters that were here previously left some good trails for us
to follow, were just trying to find those trails. We are teaching two 9
year old girls. And they are amazing little girls. Their parents are
less active members who don't want much to do with the church, but they
don't care if their daughters get baptized, but we are starting from
scratch with these little girls, we are teaching them how to pray, read
and who Jesus Christ is. And hopefully we can get into more homes this
week and find more people to teach :) It's just hard because most of the
people we talk to speak spanish... so I guess I really need to learn
spanish.
A miracle
There has been lots of
miracles this week! First of all I got here. And the fact that the Lord
is trusting me enough to teach His children and train a brand new
missionary is a miracle! Another miracle is that we were knocking on
some houses that people told us to knock on and the houses that we
knocked on either the people we not interested or weren't home. My
companion felt that we should knock on one more door, I just said
whatever. We knocked on the door a woman answered and she would not come
out of her house. She told us that she was very upset with the church
because of something that happened about a year ago. This woman has not
been active since she was 14 and she was about to shut the door on us,
and then I started talking to her about her dogs and how cute they were
and then I told her that her wedding ring was beautiful. Then she came
outside and she talked to us. She told us her troubles and how much she
missed her mom who passed away and how things were hard. She was very
upset with the members of the church, but we didn't correct her we just
let her talk. She began crying and then my companion began to cry with
her and then she allowed me to sing her a song, so I did. And you just
saw this womans heart soften. She said that we could come back another
time and we never know what will happen in the future :)
Something I learned
This week I
learned that the Lord is going to shape us into what HE wants us to be.
He is going to test us and give us callings to make us better. I am
learning to lean on the Lord, because I cannot do this on my own. This
is His work and His children and I need to do His work His way. I was
reading this talk called Becoming a consecrated missionary and Tad
Callister was talking about how this Elder didn't want to be obedient
and he told his mission president that all these rules were changing his
nature and his mission president told him that that is what it is
supposed to do. When we allow the Lord to change our nature we become
patient, submissive, meek, humble and full of love.
I hope this e-mail makes sense this week. It's been a crazy week! But I am so glad to be here! I'm love being a missionary.
Aloha wau ia 'oukou!
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