• Here's what I learned at zone conference:
• Mark 9:23-24. I have always loved this scripture, but reading it again, I realized that I need to have that belief in my investigators and know that truly ALL things are possible when I have enough faith. I have seen that with Gertrude. I need to constantly work and pray to overcome my unbelief.The other thing that really stuck with me is that I am accountable to Christ. He is the one I am trying to please. Although I report numbers and the people we are working with to others, the only person I am really accountable to is Christ. I am doing what I am doing for Him.
• I also enjoyed zone conference. I especially enjoyed the parts when we talked about accoutablity. We are free to choose to do what we want here in the mission field, but the Lord can only bless us if we are accoutable.
• AT zone conferece, i learned how to plan better and the importance of Daily planning.
• I also enjoyed zone conference. I especially enjoyed the parts when we talked about accoutablity. We are free to choose to do what we want here in the mission field, but the Lord can only bless us if we are accoutable.
• I liked Zone Conference though, really learned about how important planning is, and how most missionaries, if not all, don't do it properly.
• I really enjoyed Zone Conference last week. Accountability is just what a lot of our companionships need right now. Daily and Weekly planning help us remain unified and allow us to work harder. This is something that we sorely need to improve. Conferences always bring in the spirit.
• Thank you for Zone Conference, and just like you said, if you pay atention you will have answers to your questions, and you answered some of mine. Thank you for helping me feel better, and lift up my head and work.
• On a brighter note, I LOVED ZONE CONFERENCE. it was a s if you answered my all time mission question. Why did i come to Utah? I know that i came here to be obedient and i am so grateful to be here and be tutored by the Lord himself through experiences and trails. I know that this is where i am supposed to be and i am working on my faith so that we can be able to find spanish speaking families in our area that are interested in the gospel.
• We've been teaching a family named the Balladares. Brother Balladares is from Nicaragua and hasn't been to church in a while, and Sister Balladares wants to learn more and has come to church two weeks in a row, the second week she brought a neighbor. It was great, we just knocked on the door, she saw us and said that she'd be at church on Sunday, and she was! Turns out she'd been praying right before we came by; I've heard of that happening before, but it's nice when it happens to us.
• My scripture of the week is Moroni 9 : 6. It's when Mormon realized that no one was listening to the gospel and everything was going to be destroyed, but he still said "...notwithstanding their hardness, let us labor diligently; for if we should cease to labor, we should be brought under condemnation; for we have a labor to perform whilst in this tabernacle of clay, that we may conquer the enemy of all righteousness, and rest our souls in the kingdom of God."I think it's cool that even though he knew it was a lost cause, he kept at it. (Don't worry, we don't have a lost cause...)
• I'm very grateful to serve here and consider it a huge blessing from the Lord. What I learned from Zone conference that touched me was when you talked about how the Lord is preparing us to minister to our family. I hope that I'll be able to help my dad become temple worthy again when I get home. I also took from it to be diligent in making worth while plans helps us to prepare. I know personally that the Lord does bless us as we make plans and follow the Spirit he goes before us to prepare the hearts of those we plan to contact. I love helping people come unto Him. I'm truly happy.
• Zone Conference was great! I learned of all the things I had to repent of! I have a lot of work to do. For a long time, I've been trying and trying to please you. You are like a 5th father to me (because we have our Heavenly Father, we are the Children of Christ, we are adopted into Abraham's seed and my biological father)... But when you said you didn't want us trying to please you, but the Lord, that really hit me.
• I learned a lot at Zone Conference I learned to organized the area book and to write the names of the potentials on the list.
• I finished the book of mormon on saturday it was a great finish as I ended the challenge I have learned so much. I have started going throught preach my gospel and marking every scripture in there in my scriptures its been great as I relearn them.
• i really enjoyed zone conference. spirit felt great there. especially during the humanitarian video clip you showed, i was holding back tears, cause i know what the church does for the world is of God. The things i learnt at conference is what i needed to know for what lies ahead of me, so im gratefull for what the spirit taught me that day.
• Thanks to the Zone Conference we had a very enlightening weekly planning and companionship inventory. The training given was exactly what i needed. I was feeling quite lost and not knowing what to do but I was not focusing on what i could do to better the work and just what i could do just to better the companionship. I realize that if i focus on the work and do what I can in that sense, everything else will fall into place if it is the Lord's will.
• Zone Conference was great. Mainly what impressed me the most what the video clip from Pres. Eryn called Ripples, he said: " And you what kind of impact are you having on others."
• Thank you so much for all that you said during Zone conference. It really was what I needed to hear. I know that god is with us and wants to help us. I am optimistic about the coming week. I know that as long as we are as obedient as we can be, the blessings will come.
• Zone Conference - Improve my GPA (Goals, Planning, and Accountability).
• Thank you so much for zone conference this past week and for coming to train the Stake that we work in. People have already started to give us more referrals and everyone we visit who was there is excited about missionary work and the success they expect to have because of what the Lord has promised them. This next week looks to have huge improvements in the number of lessons that we have been teaching and we are being asked by bishops to hold them accountable for everything you taught Thursday night. My companion and I will!
• For gospel study I am going through PMG and doing all of the Activity boxes that are meant12 for personal study.
• In zone conference I was impressed when Elder Wirthlin touched on the principle of compensation. It made me realized that the Lord can be pleased with my performance in the present situation even when the outward results might not show the dilligence and faith put forth. Eventually they will. Whether on the mission or in life.
• Zone confrence was amazing. I learned how the first vision showed the eternal nature of families. Also my testimony of Joseph Smith was strenghtend. I am now starting to get up at 6 am so i can get an extra half an hour of studing in.
• Reading the Book of Mormon in 90 days has renewed my resolve to share the message it contains with all I see. And the assignment to write 10 reasons why we know Joseph was a prophet of God caused me to sincerely consider my feelings on the subject.What I learned from this previous Zone Conference was just how glorious it is to have a prophet on the earth. As I ponder on what the meaning of a prophet is, I marvel at the fact that Joseph Smith was a literal mouthpiece of the Eternal Father. To me, the fact that Christ would call another prophet to lead and guide us is yet another witness of his boundless love. My renewed conviction I have received from this Conference is to put myself to more sincere study and more frequent prayer about these matters. I've reached the conclusion that if I am going to challenge my investigators to read and pray to discover the reality of our message...I need to have an unshakable, unchangeable testimony of these things.
• Zone conference was amazing! I learned alot about the prophet Joseph and his life. I also loved the activity that we did in writing the 10 reasons that I know that Joseph Smith is a prophet. Doing this helped to strengthen my testimony of him and his work. I am going to strive harder to help my investigators to learn more about the Prophet Joseph and help them to find out for themselves just like I have that he is a prophet of our father in heaven.
Monday, February 15, 2010
• I really enjoyed zone conference. What hit me the most was when you said that our mindset should be "I don't want to do what I want to do. I only want to do what you want me to do." I think the way we can see our Christlike growth is by measuring how in line our will is with the Lord's will. In my personal studies, I was reading from the Ensign and in President Monson's message he said that we need to constantly be asking ourselves questions like: Am I what I want to be? Am I closer to the Lord today than I was yesterday? Will I be yet closer tomorrow? Am I brave enough to make the changes I need to bring me even closer to Him? I hope I can continue to learn how to make my will the same as the Savior's.
• I may have told you this already but this story i will never forget. We went to the hospital in my last area and I gave this lady a blessing. Later that day, the doctors were looking at her X Ray and suprisingly they found nothing wrong with her. What makes this story even more cool and meaningful for me is that she wants to meet with the missionaries now. The fact that me and my comps were able to share the gospel even through a blessing and that something might come out of it is just beyond words.
• I learned a lot. I actually understand how the spirit works in conversion, and that it is the ONLY thing which will bring a lasting change in people. If we try to do this work without the power of the Holy Ghost backing us up, we're just wasting our time. They might be able to find their own witness and conversion on their own, but frankly it's our job to provide a lot of that. To preach with power, with authority, and with the spirit. I'm a lot happier now. I gave my heart over to the Lord. I think I gave nearly all of it. My desires and actions have changed. My motives are much more out of love now, not duty or responsibility. Wish I could have found this out a year ago.
• One thing i learned at zone conference is really how to do Weekly Planning effectivly. I always thought i did but i realized i needed to go through all the 13 steps and not just the ones that will help me get done faster and i need to spend the whole time doing weekly planning usually we had about 30 min left but now i need to do it for all 2 hours.
• Wow, this week has been a doozy. I found out that a close friend passed away. It all went down hill from there until about friday when I just had to tell my self to be happy no matter what. No matter how many doors are slammed, or people say no, or how horrible my numbers are. I have to be happy. I am doing the best thing I could be doing with my time. I am serving. I have desires to teach and help heavenly Fathers children make covenants with him. I know that things cant always be great, but we still have to be optimistic because as soon as we give into the discouragment its a downward spiral of not good feelings. I am trying to think about all the amazing blessing I have.
• Zone confrence was amazing. I learned how the first vision showed the eternal nature of families. Also my testimony of Joseph Smith was strenghtend. I am now starting to get up at 6 am so i can get an extra half an hour of studing in.
• I loved this zone conference, and am glad that everything that was taught were things that we can use to improve our area. I enjoyed the area book training that spoke about a lot of things that we had already done, and also that reminded us about the events that lead to baptism portion of the teaching record. I had forgotten that they were in our planner. We are now using that every night when we plan to select commitments we will give to our investigators and less active people we are teaching.
• Zone Conference was amazing as usual, accountability i think is one of the most important values that we have to learn for ourselves. especially accountability to ourselves. I only want ot look back and say i did my VERY best and worked my very hardest the whole time!!
• I loved Zoneconf. it was great to have focus on planning
• Also from the scripture I learned that we have been called to be a watchman among the people that we are serving here and we will be responsible for the people that we could have saved.
• So those are some of the highlights. I also really enjoyed Zone conference. One of my favorite things I learned was, "you didn't come here for what you are, you came here for what you could become." This helps me to constantly try to learn and not to worry about being perfect or say things perfectly in my lessons. This has been a problem for me in the past, so I am glad that I can find peace on that subject. So I will try more to trust the Lord what to say.
• Zone Conference this last week was helpful for organizing the area book and planning more effectively. We are spending more time on daily planning now. I always worried about how big and messy our area book might get to be, and then I would think, "Well the next missionaries will have to sort it through", but then what if every missionary thought that? Then we would ALL be stuck with a mess. So, we are fixing up our area book and it will be perfect for whoever serves in our area in the future.
• Zone Conference: I learned about accountability, that subject has come up acuople of times this week. I think the Lord has been teaching me important lessons about that. I am going to bear my testimony to more people that are put into my path. I will be held accountable someday. I also felt the need to report to the Lord every night for my efforts. I also learned how I can be more effective with following up and keeping track of commitments we leave. I am going to do better about being accountable to our investigator about commitments we leave with them.
• I was very excited about Zone Conference last week, and it turned out better than expected. From Zone Conference I took a few things to imporve on. Mainly on planning, both daily and weekly, as well as better use of the Notes section in the planner. I was really struck by the accountability portion of Zone Conference. I read over that section again in Personal Study and am now commited to put accountability to leaders and the Lord into my daily life. Thank you for your talk on accountability and the G.P.A. portion of Zone Conference.
• I really appreciated Zone Conference...Elder Tolman's training really hit me when he said that we shouldn't go home saying, "I wish, I wish, I wish!" Just go DO IT NOW! I also realized that the more organized we are, the better we'll be doing. So we're going to keep the area book up, among other things.
Studies are fun.
• ZONE CONFERENCE
What I Learned: Accountability is nothing to be afraid of, but it's a principle thats going to guide me and help me the rest of my life. It's also a understanding my responsibilities that they lord has given me.
What I felt: I felt like i actually might have improved how i do missionary work since the Ch. 8 zone conference last year.
What I am going to do: I am going to update my area book. seriously. like make it a habit every day or at least every other day. Also be prayerful about the needs i need to include for every investigator on the progress records.
Zone Conference was really great, I think what I liked the most was Elder Tolman's training. He talked about making life goals when we get home, I had planned on doing that, but now my goals will be more specific and planned. I appreciate your comments a
• I may have told you this already but this story i will never forget. We went to the hospital in my last area and I gave this lady a blessing. Later that day, the doctors were looking at her X Ray and suprisingly they found nothing wrong with her. What makes this story even more cool and meaningful for me is that she wants to meet with the missionaries now. The fact that me and my comps were able to share the gospel even through a blessing and that something might come out of it is just beyond words.
• I learned a lot. I actually understand how the spirit works in conversion, and that it is the ONLY thing which will bring a lasting change in people. If we try to do this work without the power of the Holy Ghost backing us up, we're just wasting our time. They might be able to find their own witness and conversion on their own, but frankly it's our job to provide a lot of that. To preach with power, with authority, and with the spirit. I'm a lot happier now. I gave my heart over to the Lord. I think I gave nearly all of it. My desires and actions have changed. My motives are much more out of love now, not duty or responsibility. Wish I could have found this out a year ago.
• One thing i learned at zone conference is really how to do Weekly Planning effectivly. I always thought i did but i realized i needed to go through all the 13 steps and not just the ones that will help me get done faster and i need to spend the whole time doing weekly planning usually we had about 30 min left but now i need to do it for all 2 hours.
• Wow, this week has been a doozy. I found out that a close friend passed away. It all went down hill from there until about friday when I just had to tell my self to be happy no matter what. No matter how many doors are slammed, or people say no, or how horrible my numbers are. I have to be happy. I am doing the best thing I could be doing with my time. I am serving. I have desires to teach and help heavenly Fathers children make covenants with him. I know that things cant always be great, but we still have to be optimistic because as soon as we give into the discouragment its a downward spiral of not good feelings. I am trying to think about all the amazing blessing I have.
• Zone confrence was amazing. I learned how the first vision showed the eternal nature of families. Also my testimony of Joseph Smith was strenghtend. I am now starting to get up at 6 am so i can get an extra half an hour of studing in.
• I loved this zone conference, and am glad that everything that was taught were things that we can use to improve our area. I enjoyed the area book training that spoke about a lot of things that we had already done, and also that reminded us about the events that lead to baptism portion of the teaching record. I had forgotten that they were in our planner. We are now using that every night when we plan to select commitments we will give to our investigators and less active people we are teaching.
• Zone Conference was amazing as usual, accountability i think is one of the most important values that we have to learn for ourselves. especially accountability to ourselves. I only want ot look back and say i did my VERY best and worked my very hardest the whole time!!
• I loved Zoneconf. it was great to have focus on planning
• Also from the scripture I learned that we have been called to be a watchman among the people that we are serving here and we will be responsible for the people that we could have saved.
• So those are some of the highlights. I also really enjoyed Zone conference. One of my favorite things I learned was, "you didn't come here for what you are, you came here for what you could become." This helps me to constantly try to learn and not to worry about being perfect or say things perfectly in my lessons. This has been a problem for me in the past, so I am glad that I can find peace on that subject. So I will try more to trust the Lord what to say.
• Zone Conference this last week was helpful for organizing the area book and planning more effectively. We are spending more time on daily planning now. I always worried about how big and messy our area book might get to be, and then I would think, "Well the next missionaries will have to sort it through", but then what if every missionary thought that? Then we would ALL be stuck with a mess. So, we are fixing up our area book and it will be perfect for whoever serves in our area in the future.
• Zone Conference: I learned about accountability, that subject has come up acuople of times this week. I think the Lord has been teaching me important lessons about that. I am going to bear my testimony to more people that are put into my path. I will be held accountable someday. I also felt the need to report to the Lord every night for my efforts. I also learned how I can be more effective with following up and keeping track of commitments we leave. I am going to do better about being accountable to our investigator about commitments we leave with them.
• I was very excited about Zone Conference last week, and it turned out better than expected. From Zone Conference I took a few things to imporve on. Mainly on planning, both daily and weekly, as well as better use of the Notes section in the planner. I was really struck by the accountability portion of Zone Conference. I read over that section again in Personal Study and am now commited to put accountability to leaders and the Lord into my daily life. Thank you for your talk on accountability and the G.P.A. portion of Zone Conference.
• I really appreciated Zone Conference...Elder Tolman's training really hit me when he said that we shouldn't go home saying, "I wish, I wish, I wish!" Just go DO IT NOW! I also realized that the more organized we are, the better we'll be doing. So we're going to keep the area book up, among other things.
Studies are fun.
• ZONE CONFERENCE
What I Learned: Accountability is nothing to be afraid of, but it's a principle thats going to guide me and help me the rest of my life. It's also a understanding my responsibilities that they lord has given me.
What I felt: I felt like i actually might have improved how i do missionary work since the Ch. 8 zone conference last year.
What I am going to do: I am going to update my area book. seriously. like make it a habit every day or at least every other day. Also be prayerful about the needs i need to include for every investigator on the progress records.
Zone Conference was really great, I think what I liked the most was Elder Tolman's training. He talked about making life goals when we get home, I had planned on doing that, but now my goals will be more specific and planned. I appreciate your comments a
Monday, February 8, 2010
• In Doctrine and Covenants 123:17 it says we are to be cheerful in the work then are we able to withstand the powers of the devil. And when we are happy and doing what is right then we have the power of God to lead and guide us in this work.
• When my companon and I white washed into the Kearns South Stake we began doing Family Home Evenings with a less-active family named the Johnsons. The Elders had found them the week before and set up the appointment. Randy was baptized at 8 but never went to church. Robyn I think went to church until her late teens. They had a little boy and a little girl. While we met with them we focused on their 6 year old son, knowing that was probably the best level for the dad as well. They began attending church regularly and he received the Aaronic Priesthood. Since I've been home, Randy received the Melchizedek Priesthood and blessed their new baby boy. On Friday night I was able to attend the sealing of the Johnson family. I cannot describe exactly the joy that I felt as I watched that family be sealed for time and eternity. Randy had tears in his eyes as his children were brought to them. And they all were so happy. (which Robyn always scared me because she looked like she was always annoyed). The Spirit was so strong and my testimony that family can be together forever was strengthened. I know that Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ love us so much and want us to return to them. And I know that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is Christ's Church with His Priesthood Authority.
• We had tried to put Joe on date in September, but he was very stubborn and hard hearted then. He accepted this committment. We came back for our next lesson last Saturday with the stake president and another fellowshipper from the ward. We taught the Plan of Salvation and Joe was so involved! We had practiced all week on asking questions because that is one of our main goals for this transfer is to be able to ask questions that will really help our lessons be more affective for the investigator. We were both able to ask really great questions. Joe asked how he would go about repenting. His wheels were turning. He also asked about how he could get his sisters work done. At the end of the lesson the stake president told Joe that he felt that he should consider the 14th of February as his baptism date, because there would be no greater way to show his sweetheart how much he loved her than to get baptized. Now this was really amazing because when we started teaching Joe and I began to ask Heavenly Father which date we should extend to him the 13th of February came so clearly. We then told Joe of that experience. Of how I knew that God had told us and the President that the weekend of the 13th was the time for him to get baptized. He nodded his head ,but didnt say anything. Then our fellowshipper Said " Joe I am gonna call you out on some things. I love you, but you havent kept any of the committments the Sisters gave you last week. You havent prayed specifically about the Book of Mormon, or about your baptism date. (we had asked at the beginning of the lesson) You need to repent and do these things this week. Joe I know that your biggest hang up is if Joseph Smith is a Prophet or not" Joe then replied " Actually I have seen enough, read enough, and felt enough that I know that he is now" Woooohooooo!!! Then our fellowshpper preceeded to put Joe on date for the 13th of February. His reply was " Well, I already told me boss that I am gonna get baptized,so I will pray for the 13th" His wife's eyes were as big as saucers!!! It was great! Joe called about 30 minutes later to tell us that he prayed and is gonna get baptized on the 13th. It is great to see this family come together. Joe and Mechelle lost 2 sons a year ago and will be sealed to them when they go to the temple. This is what we are here for. To see families come to the temple. I can’t wait for that time!!!! We were also able to see Matt Jaglowski get the priesthood on Sunday and see his wife Shirley get her first calling.
• This week has been great. I am loving being out here on a mission. we taught 6 lessons my first day and that was a shock but it was so amazing. Teaching is really not nerve bending any more.
• Well this week was great we were able to find some new investigators and we were able to help the investigators that we do have come closer to the gospel and help them understand better the pricipals of the gospel and the things that they have to do to be baptized. We have some amazing investigators right now and we just found a family of 4. They have a lot of questions but they are a great family and are very excited to learn.
• When my companon and I white washed into the Kearns South Stake we began doing Family Home Evenings with a less-active family named the Johnsons. The Elders had found them the week before and set up the appointment. Randy was baptized at 8 but never went to church. Robyn I think went to church until her late teens. They had a little boy and a little girl. While we met with them we focused on their 6 year old son, knowing that was probably the best level for the dad as well. They began attending church regularly and he received the Aaronic Priesthood. Since I've been home, Randy received the Melchizedek Priesthood and blessed their new baby boy. On Friday night I was able to attend the sealing of the Johnson family. I cannot describe exactly the joy that I felt as I watched that family be sealed for time and eternity. Randy had tears in his eyes as his children were brought to them. And they all were so happy. (which Robyn always scared me because she looked like she was always annoyed). The Spirit was so strong and my testimony that family can be together forever was strengthened. I know that Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ love us so much and want us to return to them. And I know that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is Christ's Church with His Priesthood Authority.
• We had tried to put Joe on date in September, but he was very stubborn and hard hearted then. He accepted this committment. We came back for our next lesson last Saturday with the stake president and another fellowshipper from the ward. We taught the Plan of Salvation and Joe was so involved! We had practiced all week on asking questions because that is one of our main goals for this transfer is to be able to ask questions that will really help our lessons be more affective for the investigator. We were both able to ask really great questions. Joe asked how he would go about repenting. His wheels were turning. He also asked about how he could get his sisters work done. At the end of the lesson the stake president told Joe that he felt that he should consider the 14th of February as his baptism date, because there would be no greater way to show his sweetheart how much he loved her than to get baptized. Now this was really amazing because when we started teaching Joe and I began to ask Heavenly Father which date we should extend to him the 13th of February came so clearly. We then told Joe of that experience. Of how I knew that God had told us and the President that the weekend of the 13th was the time for him to get baptized. He nodded his head ,but didnt say anything. Then our fellowshipper Said " Joe I am gonna call you out on some things. I love you, but you havent kept any of the committments the Sisters gave you last week. You havent prayed specifically about the Book of Mormon, or about your baptism date. (we had asked at the beginning of the lesson) You need to repent and do these things this week. Joe I know that your biggest hang up is if Joseph Smith is a Prophet or not" Joe then replied " Actually I have seen enough, read enough, and felt enough that I know that he is now" Woooohooooo!!! Then our fellowshpper preceeded to put Joe on date for the 13th of February. His reply was " Well, I already told me boss that I am gonna get baptized,so I will pray for the 13th" His wife's eyes were as big as saucers!!! It was great! Joe called about 30 minutes later to tell us that he prayed and is gonna get baptized on the 13th. It is great to see this family come together. Joe and Mechelle lost 2 sons a year ago and will be sealed to them when they go to the temple. This is what we are here for. To see families come to the temple. I can’t wait for that time!!!! We were also able to see Matt Jaglowski get the priesthood on Sunday and see his wife Shirley get her first calling.
• This week has been great. I am loving being out here on a mission. we taught 6 lessons my first day and that was a shock but it was so amazing. Teaching is really not nerve bending any more.
• Well this week was great we were able to find some new investigators and we were able to help the investigators that we do have come closer to the gospel and help them understand better the pricipals of the gospel and the things that they have to do to be baptized. We have some amazing investigators right now and we just found a family of 4. They have a lot of questions but they are a great family and are very excited to learn.
Monday, February 1, 2010
• And about conference, I felt that I hadn't done my duty as I should have in testifying of the Prophet Joseph Smith and his vital role, I thought that this was an easy mistake to fix and would probably make me a much better missionary, and I will bear witness of Joseph and continue to refine myself as a priesthood holder and missionary.
• My goal is to find at least one positive thing about everyday, and write it down on my planner, that usually helps me count my blessings. I guess I just need to relax, and to work smart. See my resources, and see what can be improved.
• This week was really amazing. On Sunday it was Stake conference and Richard G. Scott came and talked. During his talk he called me and Sister Ford up to the pulpit in front of everyone! He asked us why we decided to go on a mission, how the Atonement has helped us on our mission and then he had us bare our testimonies!!! We were in shock the whole time we were up there. He was standing right next to us. It was completely unexpected. It was very, very scary but amazing at the same time. Richard G. Scott also went to the house of one of our investigators and visited them. We haven't had a chance to see how that went but we can't wait to find out. I can't believe all this happened. My testimony of apostles has grown so much. He was so kind and his testimony is powerful. wooowwww.
• We went around to teach her and, when we extended the commitment to be baptized, she immediately declined and said that she might be ready in about a year. AS we taught the Word of Wisdom and bore our testimonies we could feel the spirit so stong. When we normally teach her we're realaxed and at ease - We're rolling with the waves. But as we felt the spirit both of us became a little different. We were really bold, testifying of what we KNOW to be true. Instead of rolling with the waves, we ploughed right through them. We then again extended the same baptismal date, to which she accepted without hesitation. No matter how hard you pray for something, the Lord is NOT going to give it to you without you doing something. The brother of Jared had two problems when it came to building the barges. The Lord helped him out with one of them, but told him to find a solution to the other problem. When the brother of Jared found his solution and proposed it to the Lord, then the Lord provided aid. Had we not acted upon the strength of the spirit that we felt, we would've left that home without a baptismal date.
• This week and last week I really focused on increasing my faith in Jesus Christ. I know that is where all of my inspriation lies. When I have faith, I will be closer to the spirit and be able to more effectively find those that are ready to hear the gospel and be baptized! I feel like we are working hard. I know we are being obedient and faithful. We are here to find those people that are ready to hear the gospel. We are here to be successful! That will come as we continue to work in dilligence and faith.
• read the talk on faith that the traveling assistants gave us at interviews so we are trying to implement it in our work. Faith is essential in this work as we are always hearing. It made me re-evaluate some of the goals that I set at the beginning of my mission to make me work even harder for the next few months. I know with the Lord's help and with a lot of faith I can do anything.
• Things are going great. I hope we will be able to keep it up. I know the Lord is blessing us with all these people to teach and we are doing our best to keep prepared. We already have appointments to pick three knew investigators this coming week as well. Our motto is find daily baptize weekly.
• During last Zone Conference I had an overwhelming feeling about the prophet Joseph Smith and knew that was something I had to ponder about and I came to Zone Conference and found that my feelings were showing me that I needed to know more about the prophet and I did. Its amazing how the Lord works.
• The area is doing fantastic! I am loving being able to always have lots of referrals to check, investigators to stop by, and also reporting back to bishops on the referrals we have already checked. When I first got in to the area, some people may have considered it dead. My companion and I however worked hard, remained dillagent and had faith and now we have a constant flow of investigators. The thing that we have to work on now is still finding. We do an ok job of finding right now but we need to do better. I know that as we continue to check these bishops referrals, then follow up with the bishops afterwards and ask them for more referrals that they will continue to give us more and better ones.
• Scripture of the week-Doctrine and Covenants 4:6- what I like about verse 6 is that it says remember and then it lists the qualities of a missionary! I think we all know that a missionary needs to have those qualities in order to show the Lord our willingness to teach his children, but its how well we remember those qualities and do our best to sharpen those qualities that the Lord wants to see.
• My goal is to find at least one positive thing about everyday, and write it down on my planner, that usually helps me count my blessings. I guess I just need to relax, and to work smart. See my resources, and see what can be improved.
• This week was really amazing. On Sunday it was Stake conference and Richard G. Scott came and talked. During his talk he called me and Sister Ford up to the pulpit in front of everyone! He asked us why we decided to go on a mission, how the Atonement has helped us on our mission and then he had us bare our testimonies!!! We were in shock the whole time we were up there. He was standing right next to us. It was completely unexpected. It was very, very scary but amazing at the same time. Richard G. Scott also went to the house of one of our investigators and visited them. We haven't had a chance to see how that went but we can't wait to find out. I can't believe all this happened. My testimony of apostles has grown so much. He was so kind and his testimony is powerful. wooowwww.
• We went around to teach her and, when we extended the commitment to be baptized, she immediately declined and said that she might be ready in about a year. AS we taught the Word of Wisdom and bore our testimonies we could feel the spirit so stong. When we normally teach her we're realaxed and at ease - We're rolling with the waves. But as we felt the spirit both of us became a little different. We were really bold, testifying of what we KNOW to be true. Instead of rolling with the waves, we ploughed right through them. We then again extended the same baptismal date, to which she accepted without hesitation. No matter how hard you pray for something, the Lord is NOT going to give it to you without you doing something. The brother of Jared had two problems when it came to building the barges. The Lord helped him out with one of them, but told him to find a solution to the other problem. When the brother of Jared found his solution and proposed it to the Lord, then the Lord provided aid. Had we not acted upon the strength of the spirit that we felt, we would've left that home without a baptismal date.
• This week and last week I really focused on increasing my faith in Jesus Christ. I know that is where all of my inspriation lies. When I have faith, I will be closer to the spirit and be able to more effectively find those that are ready to hear the gospel and be baptized! I feel like we are working hard. I know we are being obedient and faithful. We are here to find those people that are ready to hear the gospel. We are here to be successful! That will come as we continue to work in dilligence and faith.
• read the talk on faith that the traveling assistants gave us at interviews so we are trying to implement it in our work. Faith is essential in this work as we are always hearing. It made me re-evaluate some of the goals that I set at the beginning of my mission to make me work even harder for the next few months. I know with the Lord's help and with a lot of faith I can do anything.
• Things are going great. I hope we will be able to keep it up. I know the Lord is blessing us with all these people to teach and we are doing our best to keep prepared. We already have appointments to pick three knew investigators this coming week as well. Our motto is find daily baptize weekly.
• During last Zone Conference I had an overwhelming feeling about the prophet Joseph Smith and knew that was something I had to ponder about and I came to Zone Conference and found that my feelings were showing me that I needed to know more about the prophet and I did. Its amazing how the Lord works.
• The area is doing fantastic! I am loving being able to always have lots of referrals to check, investigators to stop by, and also reporting back to bishops on the referrals we have already checked. When I first got in to the area, some people may have considered it dead. My companion and I however worked hard, remained dillagent and had faith and now we have a constant flow of investigators. The thing that we have to work on now is still finding. We do an ok job of finding right now but we need to do better. I know that as we continue to check these bishops referrals, then follow up with the bishops afterwards and ask them for more referrals that they will continue to give us more and better ones.
• Scripture of the week-Doctrine and Covenants 4:6- what I like about verse 6 is that it says remember and then it lists the qualities of a missionary! I think we all know that a missionary needs to have those qualities in order to show the Lord our willingness to teach his children, but its how well we remember those qualities and do our best to sharpen those qualities that the Lord wants to see.
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