Teaching the gospel to every creature...
Hey thanks for the training tip! I hope that you guys liked the photos and
some of the stories... i cannot believe that we have been apart for a whole
year. One year on the mission and now one year and 3 days... it is so crazy to
think that all this time is and has passed by. I still feel like i don't know
what i am doing at times haha. I find myself at times questionning why the Lord
called me to be zone leader. He has a purpose for me and we had a really neat
experience on my hump day. We had marked to do a division, bought the tickets,
and then... there was an emergency transfer and a new Élder came into the area.
To us it didn't make sense to do a division. only the district leader knew the
area and the other elder didn't even know how to get home... poor thing. his
second day, and 3rd week in the field (he is doing a "mini mission"-3 month
mission and after he will go to the mtc and his mission). it wasn't too far from
our city so we could have returned to our area. So to us- one companionship
would make visits and the other would... make contacts? It made more sense to
wait a week, but we felt very strongly that we needed to stay. so we stayed, we
worked with them, and in the end the Lord revealed WHY we had to stay. The mini
mission elder had asked for the emergency transfer because he had been with an
elder who was not working. that day we had attacked the area book and taught
them how to work better with members, investigators, and each other. We had a
mini training session with them and then left for work. I went with the DL and
elder banner with Élder antunes. After the day was over he told elder banner: "I
thought missionaries were perfect, i know they aren't, but what i saw in my
other area was not missionary work. Thank you so much for everything you guys
have done today. Thank you for taking this work seriously." In tears he thanked
Élder Banner for the work that was done. I didn't find out until after our
division when we were on the bus coming back home. The Lord knows better than we
do.
I need help with being patient, because recently i am not. I am picking and
choosing when i want to really truly love people ya know? i am more frustrated
with myself than others. I feel less than sufficient and i just want to help.
But i feel like despite our work, and we are working HARD, we don't have the
fruits to show it. This week we are going to have to cut 3 families that we have
been teaching. in 3 weeks they haven't been progressing and we when they go to
church it is so 1 or 2 of 5 or 6... it is frustrating. i don't know how else to
bear testimony and explain how this will bless their lives.
I love you guys a lot and am so glad that the Lord put me into the Grondel
family. We are blessed and the athletic side with jake, cake, and levi just goes
to show it. Way to go you guys, jake i will be praying for you. Maybe this will
be a time for reflection. when my acl tore i learned a lot about god and who my
real friends were. What does the lord want you to learn from this? this has to
be the focus- what can i gain? not what did i lose?
YOu are perfect i love you... don't change! for anything!
Love,
-Élder Grondel jr.
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