Area: Grange area of the Firle Zone
Companion: Elder Hamilton
Excerpts from Mom's email:
Hey Mom!
So this week Elder Hamilton has really been trying to have me lead out the whole time to prepare for the future. It has been tough, but I am learning a lot faster being thrown in the fire. I do really good with lesson, finding and everything. The only thing I really struggle with is knowing where I am going most of the time. I have been here for many weeks now so I grasp the concept of where I am going, but a lot of the time when I am trying to find my way, I get a little turned around. I really will need a GPS of some kind at some point, so I really really want to get one today. I have trade offs this week which I am a little nervous for because I will have to take over the area for a day especially since the zone leader will have no idea where we are going. Wish me luck for that lol.
Again I have had such a great experience with teaching our investigators. It is funny because we have started to find ways to change up our teaching a little bit. We love to use analogies and object lessons now. We use this one with a tea bag that is particularly good. Dad or James probably know the one I am talking about. As well we really try to build our relationship with our investigators and that has really helped us enjoy our teaching, because we really do care about them. Even with D..., we try to contact him in some form throughout the week besides the lesson itself. Last week we dropped of what is called fairy bread. Now fairy bread is an Aussie delicacy. It is basically bread, butter, and sprinkles haha. Yeah that's an actual thing hear... Anyway D... was teasing us about it and said sometime we should try it so we ended up making it for him and dropped it on his door step. He really liked it especially because we related it to the gospel as we do. We left a scripture about the bread of life, haha I can't remember the exact scripture though. Things like that helps us build that relationship and we really love reaching out to our friends whenever we can.
This week have been noticing key concepts in the gospel that I have not really noticed before. Our president talks about the miracle zone having to do with obedience. It's something that "Our Search for Happiness" talks about as well. "We must get up to the level when our heart is in our throat and if we opened our eyes, we would expect to see angels. We have to take things to the edge. We have to move into the realm of the miraculous. We must live in such a way that we cannot do it alone anymore, where we resort to the Lord where we cry, without thy help I will fall! We must go to the edge where the miracles happen." Now this is something that I have seen more and more as I have been out on a mission. The blessing we receive and the miracles we see don't happen when we are partially working hard or when we are mostly obedient. They happen when we have our "heart is in our throats" and we have that faith sufficient to know "if we opened our eyes, we would expect to see angels". This is something I wish to continue to learn about and understand. Something that I hope to live the rest of my life.
Love you mom! Have a great week!
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| Singing "If You Could Hie to Kolob" to start companion study. |
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