Dear Family,
Wow! Changes are coming in
the way we do missionary work! "The Work of Salvation" broadcast
yesterday announced changes in how we do missionary work and I am so
excited to be a part of them!
This week has been fairly slow but we have been out doing all we
can. We were able to get the husband of a part member family to start
progressing in the lessons! He believes all that the church teaches and
sees that baptism is where his journey needs to lead him but he doesnt
want to just do it, look back, and then realize that he left something
out. We are working with him to help him dig deeper inside himself and
see what he really needs to work on and how we can help. It is so great
to get humble people that are willing to accept our help, who know why
we are there! I feel like I am actually needed somewhere when we find
people like this. I will give you a short history of this family:
so the wife is has been a member for around 5 years and about 6
or the 8 kids are baptized. The husband is out of work and they have
one car. 4 of the children that live at home have jobs, the mother works
as well. They are able to get their schedules so that they can have a
rotation between who will drive the car and pick people up. They all
come to church every week! I have seen from their examples that none of
us have any excuses to obey gods commandments. "does the journey seem
long" (I think the name of the hymn is). does it matter that the journey
is long? would you have it any other way? Elder Pierre-Louis says "if
the mission were easy I wouldnt be here". Exactly! If life were easy I
wouldnt want to be here!
I have learned so much from this families example and I hope that
we all can follow the commandments of god, regardless of our status,
position, or posessions.
"when we are on the lords errand we are entitled to the lords help."
This week has been another great learning experience for me and I
am sorry I havent written that much but I am running our of time!
I love you all!
Love,
Elder John
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