this week has been so crazy! but at the same time
worth while, i really got to understand the power of forgiveness and the
power of love.
our ward right now is just amazing right all
of them just love sharing the gospel, and last year they had 12 baptisms
in a whole year, those 12 baptisms is the highest baptisms out of any
other ward in our intire mission. so our ward mission leader really
wants to reach that goal, but it kinda ridiculous how much he wants it,
all he does is just bag on us all day, and tells us pritty much that we
dont know how to do it. now the stuff he says are really mean and its
hard to get the motivation you need to find those people. the ward
mission leader is supposed to help us with the work but this guy just
gets mad at us. its been really hard on elder rivers, he takes it so
personally and it has really made him sadder than anyone i have ever
met, you can just tell. so we called our mission president to see what
to do and we got some advice, so just keep elder rivers in your prayers
and hopefully we really work through it together.
other than that depressing paragraph this week has been
great, we can see that our hard work is coming together and that soon
the work is going to blossom!!!!! i don't think i will ever have a
companion that wants to work as hard as we do, i mean we get stuff
done!!! and we are doing everything right but its just working slowly
but that's OK, as long as its growing.
this week for the district we are working on "finding with faith"
which simply means knowing with out a doubt that everyday you are going
top find someone to teach and someone who is willing to learn more, and
wow it has been working!
i got a story for you
me and elder ball were tracking for
about 4 hours and then we knock on this door and this old ashian man
answers the door, and we chitchat for a good 15 minutes about him
serving in the war and that's when he found god in his life, and when the
opportunity came we shook his hand and pulled ourselves in the door
into his house, it was awesome and i have found that it works about 50%
of the time so sisters you should try it. when we got in we sat down and
started talking about religion and he said " oh i know about all
religion i study! " then we asked well did you know that god has a body
of flesh and bone? he replies ( what what were do you get this from?)
then we start teaching him about the book of Mormon and man i don't think
i have ever seen some one more interested in the book than anyone i
have ever met, the lesson was so spiritual and so amazing that when we
got down to it we asked him "to know what we have told you today you
need to read and to pray and ask god if it is true" and he looks at us
like hes confused and he says "why do i need to pray? i already know it
is you two are my witnesses!" those are words you just long to hear
from as a missionary! i loved it and soon he will get baptised.
so many other things happened and I'm loving it here and i miss you all and love you all hope you have a great week
!!!!!!!
elder lindmeir
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