Hey!
This week I have thought
a bit about what Josh and Sarah taught at a mission-prep thing and scouts one
night. They basically said the best way to prepare for a mission is to let
something change you. They said that a mission is so impactful to so many people,
because people expect it to be and thus let it change them. But that is what
everything in this life is for. School, sports, etc. They are meant to change
us, but often we do not let it change us. So I guess my thoughts are connected
to Dia's talks and Mom's thoughts that she shared with me. Having the attitude
of an advocate or having a soft heart means we will let things (like a mission,
or relationships like marriage, or school, or church) change us. We won't be
proud and follow the status quo and not change. So that is my goal.... Kind of
big but still.
This week was also really
cold. I don't know degrees but I do know if felt freezing! My cheeks were
freezing! But our house gets warm at night so it is ok! :)
Anyway I love you all. I
pray for you.
I
really like my new companion, Elder Yang.
He works hard and really wants to make a difference in
the ward. Our ward had Ward Council this week and set up goals and stuff. For
the missionaries we are texting the ward every night so that the ward can pray
for missionary work together (well at the same time.) We want to get at least 2
ward members at each of our activities. And then get a lot more practice
lessons with members. So we made a list of about 15 members that are pretty
solid and would help and will try to do just 20 minutes with each of them every
other week or so. Anyway our ward is also making a push to do home teaching,
which I think its previous percentage was about 0%. So basically I think our
ward is "catching fire" a little bit.
This week as far as stats
was perhaps my worst. We were really trying to get Handy to read the Book of
Mormon straight through. I think it is hard for him, but I don't think he wants
to admit it. So he kept asking for some other lessons like an overview of the
stories of all the scriptures and stuff. So we did, but finally at Elder
Swanson's last meeting with him, Elder Swanson really pushed for him reading
from the beginning, he said he would but then called and said he isn't sure he really
wants to meet with us much because he doesn't like that method, so we will try
to meet with him either on Sunday or hopefully before to figure out how we can
help him out the best. Other than that Jung Soon Eh kind of dropped us, Andrew
is maybe getting a little more buy and Gang Jean He hasn't answered his phone
recently.
We did have a
worldwide missionary conference, which is the first time in like 10 years. No
big announcements, just reemphasizing the ideas they teach at the MTC. They said
to treat less actives like investigators. And heard from several people too that we should treat all members as investigators. I guess I just don't totally
understand what that implies. Thoughts?
Hurrah for Israel!
Elder Sabey
These are some of the ward members--they are deaf. There's a sign language missionary with them.
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