Tuesday, January 10, 2023

LIL LATE, SORRY I WAS BAPTIZING NATIONS - 9 January 2023

This is a super super late email but just pretend that you got this yesterday and didn't open it till today.... 

But how's it going yall!!! Hope you have had an awesome new years so far, it's crazy to think but 2023 will be my full blackout year as a missionary, I will be a missionary this entire year! In a way, that scares me but at the same time I don't want this year to end!

So ima keep this email a little shorter because it's so late but, some things that happened this week was we had an awesome lesson with a girl we are teaching!! It was my first time leading the lesson out because my new comp obviously still didn't know much about the area, but I pushed through my anxiety and had a banger lesson!!! We talked about baptism and what it means to take upon us the name of christ then talked about the spirit and how its a blessing to feel the spirit but it's even more of a blessing to have the gift of the holy ghost with you!! Then we invited her to pray about baptism and she was more than happy to do so!!! We are gonna have another lesson with her this week so wish us the best of luck cause we really feeling like we can put her on date soon!! 

Another thing that happened this week was we had zone conference!! It was an awesome zone conference, we talked a lot about temples and how temples are the end goal in conversion, baptism is just the first step. We then talked about how temples are centered around the family and Jesus christ! Because with temples one we know we can live with our families forever and two, we can perform those ordinances that give our ancestors the opportunity to come unto christ! Temples truly are the backbone of this world. I then had to give the closing prayer, and I mean I've said the closing prayer in church a lot but there was something about being up in front of a bunch of missionaries and behind me was my mission president, his wife, and the APs and the STLTs. Needless to say I said an awesome prayer to finish out Zone conference lol. 

Another awesome thing that happened was yesterday aka Monday, we had district Pday and we went bowling, went got dairy queen, went to Dickson sporting goods, then got haircuts, did missionary work for a little bit and played a board game at the end of the night. Prolly one the best Pdays I've had, for one I smacked the crap out of my district in bowling, I don't know what happened but I felt a little extra spice in my hands that day. I basically beat everybody by like 100 points, ill tag the picture so yall can see the proof. It was so fun though, had an awesome time with our district and that was my comps last district Pday before he goes home. Crazy!!! 

That's about it for the week but I did want to share a couple thoughts from my personal study today. Backstory, I've been a little frustrated and down lately because we've been doing a lot of finding, lots of knocking doors, lots of making phone calls lots of grinding!! And you would expect us to at least have some success right? Well no. It's been about a week and a half of just nothing. What stinks is each night I go to bed and I pray with all I got asking the lord to let me be an instrument in his work, what I want is that I can experience that miracle of bringing one of God's children to the light of christ. Sometimes I wonder if it's my personal worthiness like maybe the lord hasn't let me perform miracles because he doesn't trust me. I've even thought to myself that I just am not capable of doing what the lord wants me to do. But every night I still plead, praying for forgiveness for anything asking if I can help even a little. Well today I was reading in Alma 21, and this chapter is basically talking about the sons of mosiah when they went out to the Lamanites and the Amalekites to preach the word of God. Specifically this is the account of Aaron, and Muloki, and their brethren. But we read that they went to three different places, one was with the Amalekites in their synagogues but they did not want to hear the words Aaron spoke, he then went to a village and both Aaron and muloki preached but they didn't want to hear their words, then they went to the land of middoni and everyone there didn't want to hear the words he preached. So much so that they were cast into prison and of their brethren that weren't in prison fled out of the city. But those inside prison suffered horribly, fortunately they were released because ammon came with king Lamoni to help. After reading all this failure and their sorrow, one would suspect, they must be done preaching, I mean finding no success and even being cast into prison would be a breaking point for me. Instead of doing that, they went out again! And preached even more back to the synagogues and to every place that they were allowed to be in the land of the Lamanites. And a few verses that I love are Verse 16 and 17.

"16 And they went forth whithersoever they were led by the Spirit of the Lord, preaching the word of God in every synagogue of the Amalekites, or in every assembly of the Lamanites where they could be admitted. 
17 And it came to pass that the Lord began to bless them, insomuch that they brought many to the knowledge of the truth; yea, they did convince many of their sins, and of the traditions of their fathers, which were not correct."

After all that effort and sorrow, they finally started to be blessed from the lord with those miracles that I want to see in my missionary work!! The reason I wanted to share this is one for me to realize that if I keep pressing forward, not worrying about the failures I have and looking forward to those times when I can too be blessed for my efforts with those miracles I yurn for. I'm so grateful for the scriptures because I was feeling pretty crappy the past couple days and this was the perfect thing I needed to hear. I can testify that the Book of Mormon can answer questions to our souls and help us feel the love of God more than anything else on this planet! If you haven't opened the Book of Mormon in a while, I pray that you will do so, without the Book of Mormon, for one I probably wouldn't have given up two years of my life to preach the gospel, and two I wouldn't feel my saviors love as much as I do right now. 

I'm grateful for everything I have in my life, this gospel, the savior, the scriptures, the power of prayer, my family, and all my loved ones, and my friends. I love you all and I hope you have an awesome week, hopefully next week I can send this email out on time lol. 


I am a glowing Chad


Zone Conference!


My bowling score, I am “Milly”
and also the only one over 100 points lol 

 

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