So this week I don’t really remember much of what I did. I
usually copy down from my journal what I do, but I forgot. I’ll try my best. I am getting transferred on Wednesday. Ugh,
its the worst! I don’t want to leave
here, and we are about to have 3 baptisms hopefully in the next two weeks, but
oh well. I’ll probably get transferred
to the boonies or something and get eaten by dogs everyday!
We also had an investigator devotional last night. It was my first one and the coolest things ever! A bunch of people that got
baptized in the last 6 months got up and shared their testimony of their
conversion story and overcoming certain trials and the spirit was so
strong! Too bad we couldn’t get any of
our current investigators to come. Yesterday was rough, we invited so many to
the devotional and to church and only one family came, which is still super
good and amazing, but most of the people who we’re teaching didn’t come.
So as of right now Christen is super strong and just got the
priesthood, so hopefully he will go to the temple next week. Also his sister, Lizette, has taken all the
lessons and loved church yesterday so she will probably get baptized on
Sunday. And Rapha is starting to get his
answer and he has noticed his life has changed a lot for the better. The only
problem is his date dropped and he said he will just tell us when he is ready
to get baptized. That’s the worst
because then you never know how much to talk about baptism and help him
progress without him getting mad because we don’t respect his decisions... But we still see him and are good
friends. He could get baptized by next
week too.
Also, I don’t know if I ever
talked about Diego. He is related to
Floris and we finally got permission to baptize him. So he will either get baptized next week with
Lizette or the week after with some other cub scouts. This is the worst part about missionary work:
We get all this success and so many people ready… and now I have to leave it
all. It’s rough but hopefully I don’t go
too far and I can come back for their baptisms...
So recently I have started all my studies with a conference talk
from the Ensign dad gave me. It is super
nice. Today I read the one about our 4
minutes by the Presiding Bishop. Man, it
was so cool! I must have dazed during that
whole talk because I learned so much this morning! It talks about how life on earth compared to
eternity is like an athletes 4 minutes in the Olympics compared to a lifetime
of practice. And I like the comparisons
it makes between the "checkpoints" and "practice" and how
we should always compete our best but at the same time help others to compete
their best.
I also like Monson’s talk on love. That is something I have been trying
to improve on my mission, always being kind and compassionate and forgiving. Also helping others to succeed and grow. And it helped me to understand a lot about how
far one little compliment can go or how easy for us, but how much that little
act means to someone. You know, if you
ever have nothing to do, now you have two talks you can read.
Love you guys!
Elder Lund
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