Hello hello! :) January 27, 2014
I'm staying in Guelph YSA! I'm super excited about that!
Sister Dyer is leaving me though :( She is going to Oakville North. And my new
companion will be Sister Sites. All I know about her is that she has gorgeous,
dark hair and she works hard! So I'm excited to get to know her.
Austin didn't get baptized this week :( He's really going
through some hard times. But soon. Keep praying for him. He's SO CLOSE! I don't
think he realizes how close he is... He was working a lot this week and had
family things so we didn't get to meet with him as much as we usually do. We
should be meeting with him tonight though, so we'll see how that goes.
We met a guy named Dennis a few weeks ago, I cant
remember if I told you about him but he's so amazing! We met him on a SUPER
cold night as we were walking home in the snow. He had missed his bus so he was
waiting at a bus stop. So we taught him about the Gospel of Jesus Christ right
then at that super freezing cold bus stop :) He is from Ghana and is a first
year University student. He is really Christian, so we knew that an
understanding of the Apostasy and Restoration was crucial. We taught him last
Monday night, and he loved it! He was a little wary when we told him at the
beginning of the lesson that we would invite him to be baptized, because he was
already baptized Christian, but by the end of the lesson he accepted the
baptismal invitation and is working toward being baptized on the 16th of
February! Then we met with him again and taught him about the Plan of Salvation.
He loved that too. We use a lot of scriptures when we teach him. A LOT of
scriptures because it adds another witness and validity to what we are saying.
There have been times when we teach him something, then give him a scripture to
read about it and he reads it then looks at us and says, "Okay. I
understand. What happens next?" Hahaha. He's so cool. I'm excited to see
him progress in the Gospel.
For district meeting this week Elder Hardick asked us to
pick someone from the Book of Mormon and three attributes about this person
that helped them to be a good missionary. I picked Jacob :) The brother of
Nephi. The three attributes I picked was that he "Labored Diligently"
(Jacob 1:7), He was bold (Jacob 2:11), and he kept good records (Jacob 4:2). I
studied for a while about diligence. In Preach My Gospel, chapter 6 is all
about Christlike attributes, and diligence is one of them. It says, "The
Lord expects you to work diligently-persistently and with great effort and
care...Diligence in missionary work is an expression of love for the Lord and
His work." (PMG 121) So I've been really focusing on setting goals and
making plans to be a more diligent servant of my Father in Heaven and Savior
Jesus Christ. I realized we need to be diligent in three ways to be fully
diligent. Diligence in MIND. Diligence in ACTIONS. Diligence in WORDS. I have
started memorizing hymns to be more diligent in mind. And the hymn for this
week was "O Savior, Thou Who Wearest a Crown." #197 in the hymnbook.
If you have time today, go look up those words! They are incredible! We sang it
for the sacrament hymn yesterday at church, and I love it more and more every
time I sing it.
I hope you all have a fantastic week :) Christ lives. Never forget it.
Quote of the Week: "If you want to be near Him, to feel His peace, you can do it best in His service." -President Henry B. Eyring
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