Wow! Sweet 16 :). Our mission is slightly different when it comes to transfer week. On transfer week we have our P-day on Wednesday. The new missionaries get here on Tuesday and then everyone has a P-day the next day, making things a lot nicer. But it throws off people's P-day schedule. But yeah I'm getting second half trained! So Elder Bodily trained me my first transfer and now Elder Gordon is training me for my second transfer. So I'm all packed up and ready to go! Since our mission is so small, there isn't a travel concern, but everyone is taking people to their new houses. So it can be chaotic from time to time.
The house I was in last transfer was pretty cool. It's called Granite house and we had the Zone Leaders, Elders Cooper and Beus, and Elders Anderson and Rosenkrantz. All super cool Elders, so I'm definitely going to miss them, but I'm excited for the new Elders! What was funny is that this past Saturday, Elder Cooper sat us down and announced his divorce to the whole house, from Elder Beus :(. He's an AP now! So he had to pack up and leave to help with transfers this week. But it was sad :( and funny :). That was interesting.
Yesterday Elder Bodily and I gave a super cool training on the Fundamentals of Finding. And it has a cool story behind it all.
Our District Leader asked us to give a training on this topic and he told us to study it. Somehow I didn't hear that and a couple days latter I asked Elder Bodily, and I don't remember him saying anything. And this happened multiple times, but I never heard anything. Over this transfer I've been studying certain topics, like the Atonement, Godly sorrow, and how to deepen your conversion. And what was cool was that I've felt my personal studies have been bad, because of how random they are. One day I'd be studying this and another day this. So I felt unfocused.
But Elder Bodily felt prompted the night before the training to study "What are the Fundamentals of Finding"? And I just spoke for 30 minutes straight at the training. It was cool to experience. Heavenly Father used what I was studying over the past, basically whole, transfer.
It was cool, because when people usually think of finding people, they're expecting like literally, "How do I find people?" So asking good questions, building good relationships, and many more things. But the approach we took was the steps before that. Be like the great missionaries of old: Peter, Paul, Alma, Amulek, and the Sons of Mosiah. Here are the steps:
1. Study and truly know and ponder the Word of God!
2. Pray and apply the knowledge you now possess! Apply the Gospel to your life.
3. Take action and trust in God and go out and do.
Another step that kind of connects all three, is that you must find your own joy in your personal salvation. If you don't possess that joy for yourself, how can you help others come unto Christ? You can't... There's a lot more details, but those are generally it. The point is, that if you have these three things down and you're doing your best and exercising faith, God will lead you to people who need you. You will find those who are ready. Some good scriptures
Alma 17: 2,3,5
Enos 1 (He applies these points very well)
But yeah I'm excited for Christmas and hopefully we can have some cool experiences in the new ward! I'm excited to see what I learn and see this transfer.
ใใใใ (Second to last picture is with new comp
)
ใพใฆใญ ใฟใชใใ！ ใใใใใใใใชใใ！
ใญใใผใใฝใณ้ท่
PS--Haha forgot to say, but last week we had an awesome Christmas devotional and party! President Wright gave an amazing devotional and we watched some short videos and then we had the slowest bike race :). I won my bracket :), but I lost in the championship. Then we had dinner and went outside and sang Christmas carols! Super cool and fun, here are some more pictures ;)!
No comments:
Post a Comment