I've been reading a ton of confrence talks during my studies! I read What Lack I Yet, and it really helped me this week. I realized that I wasn't being charitable enough. SO I have some plans to change it. My patriarchal blessing really talks a lot about charity and love so I think it is somehting God wants me to work on.
Pretty much all of our investigators have dropped off. We haven't been able to have much contact with them. It's pretty hard, I feel like we are doing everything we need to but it's just not coming how it has in other areas. But I know that God will bless us!! We found 12 investigators this week. We found a family of four that is super cool, they are just super Catholic so we are really going to have to rely on the spirit with them. Then we found a family with 12 in total but a lot are little kids, but they are being super difficult so we are probably going to have to drop them.
We also found a really cool less active named Juan. He is like 21. He lives with his mom and sister as well as his nephews. His mom and sister are both super active he just isn't. We went and got to know him and he should be ready to come back. We talked about the covenant that he made at baptism. He is super cool. None of his family came to church this week so I think that is why he didn't make it but I know that he will make it next week!!
Something that I have learned on my mission is the importance of the sacrament. Before the mission I didn't really understand what it meant or why we did it. On the mission I've learned that we are literally renewing the covenant that we made or in other words remaking the promise that we made. I love teaching the true meaning of the sacrament to everyone. That is a lot of what we focus on. Especially with the huge list of less active members that we have.
There is an active family that we eat with twice a month that asked us to share with them the importance of doing the little things. They really had been lacking. So I used your lesson mom!!! I didn't have little rocks and a ball so I used rice and apples. I put the rice first and then the apples and it didn't fit in the bowl and then later I put the apples then the rice. We have to put the things of God first. Then we shared 3 Nephi 13:33. Seek ye first the kingdom of god. The mom of the family really felt like she was the only one that was trying to do the family scriptures and prayers, so we told them that it's everyone's responsibility!!! Thank you for the inspiration with the lesson. Also thank you for always making sure that we did the little things. Also thank you for always having us eat together. That is something that no one does here. They are all mission out... I love you so much!!!!!
Love,
Elder Hurst
Well this pretty much sums up the week! I taught the other elders how to play cover your assestws and we've played almost every day. One day we played scum and cover your assests at the same time. That was intersting!! This week was super good. We found alot of people. Now we just ahve to help them all progress!!!!
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