We had a week full of humble miracles. The first being Steve pink. We
took two of our brethren in our ward and we talked about baptism with
him. He out of the blue asked brother van voorst last week in the
church hall to baptize him. Steve has many other he is closer with but
he chose this particular person for a reason and so he came to our
lesson and helped us get Steve ready. We talked about the word of
wisdom and I really do think he can make it. He is out of town now and
on his true turn he will be interviewed and then baptized. We met with
a less active named dayna. It has been forever since we have been able
to meet with her because she has been so busy and sick. She has been
suffering so much and so we talked about a spiritual goal that we can
help her with. She really wants to do so many things and her ultimate
goal is to go through the temple. I have learned so much this week
about goals and the ways in which we can reach our goals. It starts
with a desire and then we need to act upon that desire with faith,
taking the small steps to accomplish the things that will help us
reach our goal. Setting spiritual goals push us and teach us. I know
so many of us have pure desires to do things but we lack the speed and
momentum to get started. Or we start to do great and then fall and
decide to slow down to a stop. We are not perfect but God does ask us
to strive not just try. We need to make great efforts in what we
desire to accomplish or become. Something that I have learned on my
mission that has really helped me with setting goals is 1) pray to
know what God would have you accomplish and then write it down.
**align your will with his** As a companionship every 6 weeks we pray
and set a goal for how many people to baptize. That number is turned
into a more specific goal when we put actually names to those numbers.
Some times we have to be very specific with our goals to accomplish
them. This will show God our willingness, sincerity and our
determination. Writing down a goal puts in from your head to paper. 2)
daily check your location. Every morning my companion and I check to
see where we are at with our goals. How we are doing, how we can
improve and what we need to do to push ourselves. That is something I
didn't do before the mission and I slacked in accomplishing my goals.
Having a daily check where we are at helps me remember our goal, keep
my speed and direction and my motivation. I challenge you all as you
set goals to do and find ways to accomplish them at doing the small
things.
Graci was a success this week. Her boys are in school so we were able
to actually have a sit down lesson with her in her home. We taught her
the restoration and she learned so much! Crazy how you learn stuff
when you listen to the spirit. Two of our gators came to CHRUCH for
the first time. Sid-bishops brother and namin who is on date for
baptism. We went tracting after church and we found a YSA less active
who was just dog babysitting for his buddy. He was way surprised we
knocked on his door and he said he was interested in coming back to
CHRUCH. He said he saw us earlier this week and hoped we would make it
to his place. Well the lord knows what he needed and he needed our
awesomeness. We sent his information over to hopefully the elders
*cough cough elder sanders-smith won't ruin the miracle. We also had
cool experience with a member who did some missionary work and found
us a less active to work with. It was really awesome because that's
what we want members to do. Be in the right time and the right place
and invite them to meet the missionaries. It was another awesome week!
The church is true because miracles are still occurring and so is
revelation through the priesthood. Have a great week and look for
those miracles!!
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