Good Morning Family!!
I hope you have had such a wonderful week! I know mine has been! and to put the icing on the cake - yesterday I got my new scriptures! and I was so excited! One of our recent converts in the ward was sure to tell me that I was weird because of my excitement. You know you are a missionary when... I thought I would send you a picture of the exciting moment! and those are my new glasses too- good work momma! I love them!
As a missionary - we have to do hard things (duh! tell you something you don't know..) one of which is deciding when to stop teaching investigators. That is a hard thing. Someone recently explained the role of missionaries in relation to the Law of the Harvest (I wish I could remember who said it - let's say it was President Miller.. It probably was anyway). In a harvest, there is 2 weeks of planting, 3 months of growing and nurturing and then 3 weeks to harvest. As missionaries - we are not here to plant or nurture. We are here to harvest.Which sounds so wonderful right? It is! If that is how it worked all the time - but it doesn't - at least not yet.. and that is where sidelining investigators comes in to play - when they aren't progressing anymore and we are simply trying to nurture and instill in them a desire we need to move on and allow the members to do the nurturing and return when it is time to harvest- to teach them the things they need to know to prepare them to enter into a convenant with Heavenly Father. Last week during planning -Sister M and I realized we were trying to nurture a lot of our investigators and we realized it was not the most effective use of our time. That purge left us with 2 investigators who we are still working with and who are progressing yay! so we needed to refocus our efforts on the ward and building up the members we already have- and that led to heaps of less active work this last week which was so incredible! we have 5 that are really progressing now and a few more that are just on the verge of taking off! It is so exciting! and showing Heavenly Father that we really are working and trying to use our time effectively is really opening us up for miracles! In the last couple days we have gotten referrrals from other missionaries and from memebers who are quite solid and we are putting an investigator on date for baptism tonight and it is all just very exciting! I don't think I am explaining it at all very well right now.. but you know me! and that is what I have for you on this 4th day of February.
I feel like this email is another one of my stories- it had a lot of potential with that analogy at the beginnning and then, what was the point? There was none. But I love this work! and I am so thankful to be part of it!
and my companion is designated driver right now and she is CRAZY! that is why our supply box looks the way it does.. our supplies are to be kept in the trunk - but what you might not know - they should be INSIDE the box. Who would have thought looking at that picture? But no worries. we stay safe. I am not scared for my life and neither should you!
and with that - I lvoe you!
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