Kia Ora Everyone!!!!
Well i hope everyone has had a wonderful week it feels like
just yesterday i was in this email shop! the week has just flown by!
We had so many wonderful experiences this week and we were
working really really hard this week! This week we went on exchanges with
all of the District Leaders in the Zone and also on Thursday we went on a short
exchange with the Assistants and that was awesome we had a really good
exchange.
One of the big lessons that i have really learned this week
and also that i have been learning throughout my mission and that i'm sure i
will continue to learn for the rest of my life is how the Lord prompts us to do
certain things and then we act on the prompting and the outcome is not what we
expect. For example this week when on an exchange with one of the
Assistants we were walking down a street and we felt like we should go knock on
a door, so we knocked the door and no one came to the door so then we felt like
we should knock the next door so we did and same thing no one answered so we
walked down the drive and looked to the right and there was a man standing on
the sidewalk with his dog and he wasn't there before so we went and talked to
him had a good talk and got a return appointment for some other missionaries
because he doesnt live in our area. After we talked to the man the
promptings made sense the Lord needed us at that spot when that man was going
to be there so he "sidetracked" us a bit and then we were at the
right place at the right time. Not the outcome we were expecting from the
promptings but it is the outcome the Lord wanted.
I think a really cool story that i would also like to share
this week is about one of the missionaries who i was on an exchange with this
week he is from Tonga and when he came out on his mission he didn't know how to
speak any English and he also couldn't really understand it, so he said instead
of using the material given to him in the MTC he decided to just read The Book
of Mormon in English and then pray and fast and tried his best to speak the
language and he has been out five months now and man he has probably the best
English i have heard from and elder straight from Tonga. It is incredible
the power that The Book of Mormon and also praying and fasting has those simple
gospel principals truly bring about wonderful and incredible miracles!
My testimony has really been strengthened this week of those
simple gospel principals of attending church reading the scriptures and
praying, by doing those three things a true testimony is planted and also made
stronger, and faith is grown.
Well i think i will end this email by talking about our day
yesterday! we had a really good day yesterday, we had stake conference
and it was really awesome there were a lot of really good speakers but the best
part again was we had 4 of our investigators their and the best part two of
them are 9 years old and they came again even though their parents didnt want
to and they had a wonderful time! I have so much respect for these kids
when i was their age i probably would not have gone to church if my parents
weren't going! I for sure see why The Savior says that you must be as a
child to enter into the kingdom of heaven because man these kids have some
great faith!
Well I hope everyone has a good week this week! I want to
thank everyone for all of the prayers and love! I can for sure feel it all the
way down here in NZ!
Remember the church is true! and I love you all!
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