This week has been so much fun! Another short week for emailing,
Elder C is going home next week, so we have to spend a lot of
Pday time doing "going home" stuff, so we don't cut into proselyting
time, which is good :)
We had a goal in the mission set by our Mission
President to give as many church tours as possible. I don't know if it's
good or bad, but once we get a goal like that, it becomes a game. So
it's been a way fun week haha :) We had a lot of success, I've never
given so many church tours in one week before. We gave more last week
than I've given in entire transfers before. It just goes to show you
that you can get what you go for.
That's something that Elder Christensen and myself
have been talking a lot about. Faith is the first principle of the
gospel, and yet sometimes we don't really live by what we preach. We as
missionaries pray about our goals before we set them, which is the
process by which we try and align our will with our Heavenly Father's.
If our goals are in line with his goals, then we should be able to
bring them about if we really put our all into it. We won't always hit
every goal, and that's ok- but sometimes I think we use that as a cop
out to only say we believe in it, but not really do all we can.
Preach My Gospel recommends that in a companion study, you make a
list of every proselyting activity you did that past week, and then
evaluate whether or not it was an effective use of your time. The idea
isn't for us to look busy for two years, while in actuality we're
spinning our wheels, but to be as productive as possible. So we've been
focusing on only filling our day with the BEST of activities, and
minimizing the "good, and the better. It's fun and satisfying :)
In my personal
studies I've been studying a lot about Obedience. I think it was
Benson, who said that when obedience ceases to be an irritant, and
becomes our quest, we are endowed with power.
Good thought :)
Hey, short again I know, please forgive me :)
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