This week has flown by and we received our trnsfer information. Elder Holmes and I will remain together. The only change is that I am now the district leader.
Things went well this week. We did some service for Terry, one of our investigators. He needed an irriagaion ditch cleaned out. Most of the week however was just meetings with ward leaders. We have a rather finite pool of just non-members in the area so we spend a lot of time trying to meet with ward members on how we can help them be missionaries in day to day life. Sunday was really good. We had Daniel show up at church again. We talked with him a bit afterwards and he agreed to start meeting with us for the lessons. We are looking forward to teaching him. We tried to approach him a couple of other times but the friend he comes with is brought by his grandfather. The grandfather has always made it a little hard to comfortably talk with Daniel. He's a great guy with a good heart but he just says whatever goes through his mind. So it was always a little awkward. The very first time we met Daniel, the grandfather introduced him and talked about how he was already going to pay for his missiona dn all this stuff and we didn't even know Daniel had any real interest. Things have progressed well in any case.
Something that has been on my mind recently has been reaping what you sow. How iif we want joy we should bring it to others. If we want to feel the Spirit we need to make opportunities where the Spirit can dwell. Or even better, share spiritual insights with others. Besides the obvious part of that, I think in our lives we are constatntly sowing, it doesn't really stop. Many times we are not mindful of what we sow; especially as a missionary. There are times when we are just going between appointments or houses and my mind isn't really on the work and I've started to poinder how much would improve if even when it wasnt' study time, I was pondering things of the gospel or how we can help different people. With that last part, there's a scripture that I read this week that really impressed me. Luke 6:45 "A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringesth forth that which is good; and an eveil man out of the eveil treasure of his heart bringest forth that which is eveil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh." If we want to be kind, uplifting and happy people we must trasure up that which is good and good about others. Pharisees and many others found fault with Christ who was perfect. Even so how much easier is it for us to find fault one with another, we being imperfect. But that's not what life is about. If we are fault finders we will treasure up to ourselves that faults of others. We will not speak kind things because that is not what is in our heart. Thus we will sow faultfinding and it will return to us. So treasure up that which is good and positive and uplifting and we will be good, positive and uplifting people beacuse that is what is in our hearts. Then we can expect the goodness, positivity and upliftment to come back to us.
Anyway, that's my rant for the week. Hope it can help someone somewhere along the way.
Things went well this week. We did some service for Terry, one of our investigators. He needed an irriagaion ditch cleaned out. Most of the week however was just meetings with ward leaders. We have a rather finite pool of just non-members in the area so we spend a lot of time trying to meet with ward members on how we can help them be missionaries in day to day life. Sunday was really good. We had Daniel show up at church again. We talked with him a bit afterwards and he agreed to start meeting with us for the lessons. We are looking forward to teaching him. We tried to approach him a couple of other times but the friend he comes with is brought by his grandfather. The grandfather has always made it a little hard to comfortably talk with Daniel. He's a great guy with a good heart but he just says whatever goes through his mind. So it was always a little awkward. The very first time we met Daniel, the grandfather introduced him and talked about how he was already going to pay for his missiona dn all this stuff and we didn't even know Daniel had any real interest. Things have progressed well in any case.
Something that has been on my mind recently has been reaping what you sow. How iif we want joy we should bring it to others. If we want to feel the Spirit we need to make opportunities where the Spirit can dwell. Or even better, share spiritual insights with others. Besides the obvious part of that, I think in our lives we are constatntly sowing, it doesn't really stop. Many times we are not mindful of what we sow; especially as a missionary. There are times when we are just going between appointments or houses and my mind isn't really on the work and I've started to poinder how much would improve if even when it wasnt' study time, I was pondering things of the gospel or how we can help different people. With that last part, there's a scripture that I read this week that really impressed me. Luke 6:45 "A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringesth forth that which is good; and an eveil man out of the eveil treasure of his heart bringest forth that which is eveil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh." If we want to be kind, uplifting and happy people we must trasure up that which is good and good about others. Pharisees and many others found fault with Christ who was perfect. Even so how much easier is it for us to find fault one with another, we being imperfect. But that's not what life is about. If we are fault finders we will treasure up to ourselves that faults of others. We will not speak kind things because that is not what is in our heart. Thus we will sow faultfinding and it will return to us. So treasure up that which is good and positive and uplifting and we will be good, positive and uplifting people beacuse that is what is in our hearts. Then we can expect the goodness, positivity and upliftment to come back to us.
Anyway, that's my rant for the week. Hope it can help someone somewhere along the way.
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