This past week has been really busy. We were visited by a
team of people from FamilySearch this week. They showed us some really simple
solutions to taking photographs of two pages at once. So now we are taking the
plunge to try to learn how to do that on our own. We would sure appreciate your
prayers to help us with that.
We had a young woman move into our area. She has two little
children who are 5 and 1. They are so cute and very mild mannered. One of the
sisters in our Ward gave them a ride to church Sunday and they stayed for the
whole block and the Linger Longer. She was baptized in March and the Hiram
Sisters called us and asked us to find her since she moved to our area. Our
young Elders found her and we followed up with her. She rode with us to Stake
Conference too. The Ward and our missionaries are all working very hard to
further the work in our area. Everyone is planting seeds and it is so rewarding
to watch them start to grow. We have a great Ward and Stake.
A Linger Longer is a Potluck. Everyone brings a hot dish,
and a salad or dessert that they would have made for their family with a little
extra food for those who come that didn’t know about the potluck. It is a
fellowshipping time to get to know someone you haven’t met or catch up on old friends
in the Ward that you haven’t talked to in a while. We have a great distance
area to travel in our Ward. Everyone pulled together to help with what was
needed. The gym was packed with people and we had a great time. The food was an
International Theme so we had Neil’s great chili! There was taco salad, meat
balls, yummy salads and delicious desserts too.
Our FHE family went to Katie’s Korner for homemade ice cream
this week. The 2-year-old went around the table for a bite of everyone’s ice
cream. So cute. That reminds me of home. Our Stake President challenged all of
the children to do the next FHE with something he talked about in Stake
Conference. He held up his fingers and said, “Number 1, your Heavenly Father
loves you. number 2, your Heavenly Father wants you to love Him, and number 3,
your Heavenly Father wants you to love your neighbors.” They remembered it very
well.
Zone Conference was awesome. We had our Stake President and
our Mission President and his wife there. The Stake President taught us about
listening for the real issue with people, the power of 3 with your
companionship and the Holy Ghost, the growth development of a Monarch Butterfly
as compared to the growth development of new members of the church, and a
powerful testimony. Our Mission President has a great knowledge of the
scriptures and brings them to life when he teaches. The Spirit was strong and
we left feeling so good about our missionary work and being on a mission at
this time and in this place.
We are so grateful to be here and grateful for the learning
and growing we are experiencing on our mission. We can see so much difference
in the young Elders growth and have to admit this has been very humbling and
worth it. The quote, “I never said it would be easy, I only said it would be
worth it” really applies to a senior mission. We love our mission and mostly
our companions. We love and miss you all.
Posted: 14 Sep 2012 06:19 AM PDT
"Life is perfect for none of us. Rather than being judgmental
and critical of each other, may we have the pure love of Christ for our fellow
travelers in this journey through life. May we recognize that each one is doing
[his or] her best to deal with the challenges which come [his or] her way, and
may we strive to do our best to help out."
—Thomas S. Monson, "Charity Never
Faileth"
Topics: Charity
Topics: Charity
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