So Hma Shaw and I got a new companion
this week! Her name is Hma Johnston, and she's so great. She's been here
6 weeks and has two more with us cause her mission to Trinidad (in the Caribbean) got changed from English to Spanish the night before she came
into the mtc so she has to stay for 8 weeks to fit the transfer dates.
But we are so happy to have her, since she's been here longer and has
had different teachers she's taught us a lot about teaching and how to
improve our appointments and such. She's been a great example to Hma
Shaw and I. She's also from Gilbert and lived in Provo the past year, so
she and I will definitely be seeing each other sometime after.
The
Lord still teaches little by little, and it can be a little frustrating
sometimes. Sometimes you just want the teacher to tell you the answers
or tell you what to fix, but that's not the point. The point is to learn
how to listen to the inspirations of the Spirit so you can teach people
and not lessons, and that really is a lesson that is learned though
practice and over time. You just have to have faith in the Lord's
promises. "Those he calls he qualifies."
Hmo Nordfelt our
teacher is also great. He really does a great job of focusing on how we
can invite and help people to become converted rather than just join the
church. Those are two very different things. Someone can be baptized
into the church, but if they don't take the steps to really change their
lives, they'll never stay. It's an important lesson, and I love that he
focuses so much on that. People can't just accept the Gospel of
Jesucristo. They have to live it.
Story of the week, so last
week we had a lesson with our investigator and Hma Shaw and I had been
on splits all day because of the confusion of having random people move
in our room due to scheduling errors and her getting asked out of the
blue to host new missionaries while I was in the shower. Basically it
was a crazy preparation day and we didn't see each other much until that
night when we had to teach. I had the impression that we should totally
change our lesson plan that we had had planned all week and this was
like 20 minutes before we were supposed to teach. Now Mercedes is not a
fan of the Book of Mormon, and since that is essential to getting people
to come unto Christ, we had planned on talking about that and reading
the introduccion with her. We instead felt that we needed to teach about
the plan of Salvation, god's plan for us in this life, and focus on why
we have trials and the freedom to make choices. It was an awesome lesson and she cried as we read in 2 Nephi 2 about our ability to choose
to have joy in this life and in the life to come. Another thing is that
she only had 10 minutes, and our original lesson plan would have taken
way longer. The Spirit is real and Heavenly Father really knows each of
his children and will do anything to bring them unto Christ, all we have
to do is listen and he'll tell us what to say
.
Missions are
great. I love being out here, and am starting to get sooo excited to go
to DC. Se que Jesucristo vive y ama todos de nosotros. He wants us to
come closer to him, and I'm so excited for the chance the share that
with other people! Until next time!
Hma Bree
Also lo siento, I totally forgot to bring my camera so I'll have to
double up on pictures next week!
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