Good morning everybody, this is Elder
Record and today is February 6th, and it's P-day. I'm
pretty excited about that.
This week was AWESOME!!! I LOVE
MISSIONARY WORK!!!! I LOVE THE SAMOAN PEOPLE!!! I LOVE THE SAMOAN
LANGUAGE!!! I LOVE THE SAMOAN FOOD!!! I love everything about life
and the great plan of happiness that our Heavenly Father has laid out
for us. I'm grateful for His tender mercies and for the opportunity I
have to make a difference in peoples lives.
It has probably been one of my favorite
weeks so far, just because I have an awesome companion and we are
doing a lot of good work. This last week we had a day where we got
snowed in, so we had to stay and were not able to do any work. It was
also transfers, so we weren't able to do anything for the first
couple of days.
On Wednesday I took Elder Thorne out to
meet with the bishop and a couple of the active members in the ward
to kind of introduce him. So really we kind of started on Thursday,
but we had an awesome week. We taught a lot of lessons, and we set up
a ton of stuff for next week. We have like four investigators who are
planning on putting on date for baptism, and they are just
progressing awesome. We are excited to be teaching more people in
this coming week. Yeah, it's been very exciting (haha). We have been
able to do a lot. I am pretty sure every mission has what they call
standards of excellence. It's just goals for the whole mission to
help the missionaries be able to work toward something, so they can
make sure they are working their hardest. With our standards of
excellence, there are a certain number of lessons that we should be
able to be teaching a week. Pretty soon, hopefully, we will be able
to get to that. So I'm pretty excited. We are starting to use a lot
of the members; a lot of the youth too, in taking them out with us.
So we are excited about that. We might be getting a treadmill (haha)
from one of the members who isn't using it. Yeah, we are just meeting
a lot of people and getting a lot of potential.
In my studies this week, I was reading
in Alma
chapter 43 verse 19. It is kind of talking about how Moroni had
prepared the people with breastplates, arm shields, shields to defend
their heads, thick clothing, and all these things to kind of prepare
them individually. Later in the story after they go through the whole
ordeal with Zerahemna
and surrounding them in the valley, they go back and Moroni prepares
the people kind of as groups and cities. He fortifies the cities. So
I just kind of took that and applied it to families.
In the gospel we need to prepare ourselves individually and work from
the inside out. It is most important for us to be prepared
individually with armor, you know for the temptations and the hard
things that are out there in the world. Then we can prepare and
fortify our families so that we have a place of refuge from the storm
there. I think it's kind of neat how Moroni goes through the same
thing. It says while he's fortifying the cities, in chapter 48 or
something, he is also preparing
them spiritually. So to be able to not only physically meet the
demands of the war and the battles that are going on, but also to
spiritually meet them.
So, I'm thankful for my
family, and the strength all of you have provided for me. It has
made things definitely a lot easier. I'm thankful for the gospel. I'm
thankful that when we go and teach people, that it's so easy because
it's something that I care about and something that has blessed my
life. It's very easy to share that with somebody. It makes it so much
fun because a lot of times they have a lot of questions, but the
gospel has a lot of answers (haha); so there's never a question that
can't be answered. I love that about the gospel. People find a lot of
comfort in that, and they are able to go and seek an answer from
their Heavenly Father for themselves and know that it is true. We
just invite them to make that choice to look for the answer. It's not
really up to us (haha), we just provide the people with the
opportunity. I am thankful to be serving in this area with Elder
Thorne. I'm starting to get a hang of Samoan more. I'm starting to
learn more about the structure of everything. I am starting to be
able to understand a lot of what's going on. I am excited for this
next week! It will be fun!
In the Spanish district that we have,
things are going pretty good. It's fun. We had district meeting in
Spanish, and I recorded some of it. We went and played some games
with them when we were snowed in. I think we are going to start going
on exchanges. Elder Thorne will go with people into the Spanish
Branch, and I will bring somebody in here and we will work here. It's
been pretty fun to associate with everybody speaking Spanish (haha).
Everybody, have a good week. Make sure
you all go to Church (haha), and read your scriptures and pray. I
love you so much, and I say that in the name of Jesus
Christ, amen.
See you later.
Love, Elder Record
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