Hello Everybody,
This is Elder Record. This update is
for the week of Monday the 10th through Sunday the 16th.
Today is going to be so exciting, even though it isn't part of that
week. I am still going to say it anyway. We are going to go to the
Canada
Game Center for P-day. I'm pretty sure it's an Olympic sports
center, like rec center. It's kind of cool because now that is
starting to snow and starting to get colder outside, you can go there
and it costs like six bucks to get in. They have indoor soccer fields
and indoor basketball courts. They have a pool, which we won't be
using (haha). I don't know if they have racquetball, but I know they
have squash.
They've got a track and exercise equipment and everything. So all
four of us missionaries are going to be going there today, and I'm
pretty excited! (haha) I've never been there, but it looks really
fun. It will be cool.
This week as been kind of busy. We
weren't able to do as much as the other weeks, as for finding and
things like that, mostly because we have been following up a lot with
our potential investigators and seeing if they really are interested
in the gospel. We did exchanges this week, and I was in our area with
Elder
Hartman. I was running the area while Elder
Johnson was in the other Elders' area. We were able to do a
little tracting on this one street – it's Basswood
road in Porter Creek. We were knocking on the doors and got to
this one door. The person answered the door, and I told her about how
we have a prophet on the earth today just like Christ
had when He set up His
church, and we had that same organization. She's like, “how do
you know that?” I told her that through prayer and things like
that. I then started talking to her about the
Book of Mormon, and that it's convincing evidence of the
truthfulness of the restored gospel. She didn't have too much time,
but she's very bold in her speech and she had a lot of bold
questions, but at the same time, I had answers. It was awesome. It
was very quick and brief, and she said, “yeah, come back tomorrow
anytime before three,” because it was like three o'clock and all
her kids were coming home from school, so she had to run back inside
and be busy with that. Before going back the other day, Elder
Johnson asked me since one of our lessons fell through if I
thought we should bring a member to that lesson because we were
planning on having a member to our previous lesson. So he was
wondering if we should have her come to visit the person we
met. I said, “yes.” I felt like she was very … I don't know, I
just thought she should be there. So we took the member with us to
visit her at the time we said we would come back. So we go back and
knock on the door, she answers the door, well actually first she
didn't answer the door. I prayed that she would be there and that we
would be able to talk with her and trusted that Heavenly Father would
provide the way. Anyway, we went there and knocked on the door – no
answer. We knocked on the door again – no answer. So I started
writing a note saying sorrow we missed you lah de dah de dah, and
just that we would come back. I was going to leave our number on the
card and leave that note with her. Elder
Johnson was like, “you know what, just try one more time.” So
we knocked one more time (haha) and almost immediately she opened the
door. So we started talking about the
Book of Mormon and how it answered those questions that she had
and how it's convincing evidence of the truthfulness of the Gospel,
and that it is another witness
of Jesus Christ. It clarifies a lot of confusion in the Bible and
how it goes hand in hand, side by side with the Bible in testifying
of Christ. She was very impressed, and the member with us, she bore
her testimony about the Book of Mormon. It went sooo well, I mean it
was a fantastic lesson, and we even had a prayer – all on the
doorstep. It took about five minutes (haha) which was crazy, I mean
it went by so quickly, but it was so powerful. We were able to, I
felt, speak with the Spirit, because if I was using my own brain, I
would not have thought that fast. So we are going to see where that
goes and follow up with her again, but I just love that experience
because I kind of saw how my faith grew from that. I saw those little
miracles that happen through prayer and trusting in the Lord. It
works! You just have to trust Him and do your best to follow through
and He will provide the way.
We were also able to visit with that
referral we got from Church headquarters in Salt Lake that I talked
about to Lorielle and her question. That was neat. That whole entire
trailer park is kind of new, but doesn't exist on any of the maps. So
we went there and we were like, “holy cow” there is this huge
trailer park with these nice houses that we need to tract out (haha).
We are excited to see where that goes.
On Saturdays we started volunteering at
the museum, the MacBride
Museum. That's kind of fun (haha). We kind of get the insider
access to the museum, so we get to see everything, but at the same
time we get to help out and be a part of the community. We are good
hard workers. Elder
Johnson and I pride ourselves on how hard a workers we are and
how efficient we are (haha) because we are. We are very quick and
very efficient and we get the job done. It's fun and feels good to
work hard. We love going to the museum.
As for other things that have happened
this week, we just taught lessons and helped this one lady out with
her family history.
Yeah, just basically your average week (haha) as a missionary. It's
so hard to just sit down and think of what happened, that's why
journals are so important because everything turns into one day.
Every day that passes turns into one day, so it's hard to distinguish
one week from the other, just because you're working so fast and so
hard. You're growing so fast too. I wouldn't ask for anything else. I
mean a mission is exactly what I need and want right now, because I'm
growing so much. I know that the Church is true and my testimony has
grown so much. I already knew that our Heavenly Father hears and
answers our prayers, but now I know even more that He does answer our
prayers. If we trust in Him and ask for those things that are good
that we should ask for, He will answer those prayers, and He has
been. It's amazing to see. As a missionary you rely so much on the
Lord – you cannot do this all by yourself. It's so overwhelming
that you have to rely on the Lord. I've heard it said in a couple of
different places that every night when you pray that you give an
accounting to the Lord of your day. When you pray in the morning, you
pray like (because it does) everything depends on the Lord, but when
you get up from your prayer and you start going through the day, you
act like everything depends on you. You do your best, you work your
hardest, you do your best to get everything done that needs to be
done. Then when you go to your prayer, you rely on the Lord to take
care of what you weren't able to do, and He does. He puts people in
your paths and prepares the way. It's amazing! (haha) I haven't seen
this happen before that your prayers are answered so quickly and your
guided and directed by the Lord and see His hand in the work that you
don't see anywhere else. I know that He loves us and that He wants
us to be happy, and that He's given us the commandments and the
Gospel and all these things to help us become happy and become more
like Him. I am thankful for the good examples of people that I've
seen to help me kind of learn this. I'm thankful for the opportunity
to serve the Lord on a mission, and I say that in the name of Jesus
Christ, amen.
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