Well we had a weird week. It's always hard to sum it up…
We had interviews, which were good. Interviews are
an all day process where if you aren't in an interview with Pres then you
are in training with the Mission President's wife.
Pres H always talks about how Tempe Zone is different than the rest of the mission
and how it sets the pace for the rest of the mission. The
missionaries have to be more creative because the rest
of the mission is suburbia and Tempe
is more rural full of people with lots of unique
situations.
Tempe
is definitely unique. I just need to find something new to love about it so I
can stay here forever without going insane.
So lately I feel like we have been teaching about the Priesthood a lot and helping people to get Priesthood Blessings. And I’ve kept feeling like I need to ask for
one but I'm stubborn and I don't like to ask,
which totally makes me a hypocrite
of what I teach everyday. But I just never
felt like asking since the first greenie blessing I got in the
mountains. So in my interview Pres talked about not getting
stressed and
he gave me a blessing. It was really cool and exactly what I needed. The
blessing just made me appreciate the priesthood that much more.
One part President Howes taught about that I really liked
was "unhitching the trailer" and getting rid of anything that holds
you back from your potential as a missionary and as a child of God. Whether it
be doubts, fears, stuff from home, past, lack of faith, the list went on and
on. So Hermana H and I really like
everything he said and we haven't burned anything on our missions. So yes, we decided to
have a burning party
and "unhitch our trailers" and we burned anything that distracted us.
It was good.
We burned a lot of stuff. We got a little carried away. I burnt my hand pretty good, but it worked and we've been so much happier since:)
Our little "J" got baptized on Saturday. We're trying to
see if we can teach his Mom now. She's the only one that's not a member yet. She's really sweet and helped us teach "J". She knows everything.
We're not
sure why she never was baptized though.
We had a really cool lesson with "L". "L" is the
investigator that always buys us flowers and chocolate and we are his best
friends. He is a super lonely guy who cries
a lot. Well, he is on date to get
baptized on the 27th but we've been having a
hard time because he has a testimony but he's not really doing anything to
strengthen it and he's not super consistent.
We've been trying to figure out if he wants
to get baptized because he
has a strong testimony of the church or if he wants to get baptized because we
invited him. We planned a lesson on a
conference talk about The Atonement and how to use the atonement to overcome
abuse (he has a serious history of abuse and has had an
extremely hard life). We
planned to have it in the church this time so the spirit would be really strong
because it was a sensitive subject. When we got to the lesson we realized we left
the conference talk at home. But it was meant to be because we had an amazing
lesson. We brought this woman from our ward that's like twice his age and she was PERFECT for him. She just kept telling how much Heavenly Father
loved him
and knew him and he just cried and talked about how he felt so good. There was
a man playing the organ in the chapel practicing for Sunday and it was perfect.
She said something that stuck out to me.
She was trying to explain to him the church isn't for perfect people. That everyone in church on Sunday has a story and they have had their own
trials and challenges. The church is like a hospital for down
spirits/souls/ broken hearts. We're all
broken and weak and we recognize we can't be perfect but we come to the
hospital every Sunday to learn from one another and to remember Jesus Christ
and His Atonement.
It was one of the lessons where we were teaching, but we
were also learning from the spirit as well. I love being a missionary and being
part of really cool experiences. Everything was
just so clear. At the
end of the lesson he looked at us and said "keep me
on date for the 27th I know this is true I can feel it." It's cute he
always calls us his "angels"
Another investigator last night broke down and told us we
were like his "shepherd" and he was the lost sheep. He keeps wandering off and we always seem to
sense when he is wandering and come just in time to bring him back. I thought that was really cool seeing as for
this short time we are representatives of Jesus Christ and he is always
referred to as our Shepherd. How cool.
Okay I love you
Have a good week:)
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