Hullo,
It was a very tiring week last week. Elder Pike and I were working our butts off so that we might be able to find someone to prepare them for baptism. We were able to learn a lot of things this week.
I noticed that we had kind of picked up a negative attitude about the work, because we were literally doing everything we could, but were finding little to no success. We went back to the house for a couple of minutes and talked about how our attitudes were affecting our work. We didn’t necessarily feel unsuccessful or like we were wasting time, but we were working ineffectively and sluggishly, and my companion was getting slightly frustrated. When we had talked about it, we decided that the Lord would only bless those missionaries who were going to continue to work as if everything depended on them, but prayed as if it all depended on God.
We were able to finish the week working positively. Even though we didn’t find much success, we were blessed with a couple of referrals from other missionaries in this zone. We are in the last full week of May, and then we will be working towards our goals in June.
Something interesting I came across in the Book of Mormon the other day was a couple of chapters in 2 Nefi. I don’t remember which chapters, but in one chapter, it talks about how the Lamanites were condemned for their wickedness. The chapter right after talks about how the Jews are condemned (the last will be the first and the first the last). I found it interesting because I felt that they were almost comparing the Lamanites to the Jews, and then using that to teach the Nephites. Just interesting.
Anyways, I have attached 2 videos. One is a story of our weakness to ice cream. The other is a little bit of Mexico night life.
Love ya Guys,
Elder Scott Donner
It was a very tiring week last week. Elder Pike and I were working our butts off so that we might be able to find someone to prepare them for baptism. We were able to learn a lot of things this week.
I noticed that we had kind of picked up a negative attitude about the work, because we were literally doing everything we could, but were finding little to no success. We went back to the house for a couple of minutes and talked about how our attitudes were affecting our work. We didn’t necessarily feel unsuccessful or like we were wasting time, but we were working ineffectively and sluggishly, and my companion was getting slightly frustrated. When we had talked about it, we decided that the Lord would only bless those missionaries who were going to continue to work as if everything depended on them, but prayed as if it all depended on God.
We were able to finish the week working positively. Even though we didn’t find much success, we were blessed with a couple of referrals from other missionaries in this zone. We are in the last full week of May, and then we will be working towards our goals in June.
Something interesting I came across in the Book of Mormon the other day was a couple of chapters in 2 Nefi. I don’t remember which chapters, but in one chapter, it talks about how the Lamanites were condemned for their wickedness. The chapter right after talks about how the Jews are condemned (the last will be the first and the first the last). I found it interesting because I felt that they were almost comparing the Lamanites to the Jews, and then using that to teach the Nephites. Just interesting.
Anyways, I have attached 2 videos. One is a story of our weakness to ice cream. The other is a little bit of Mexico night life.
Love ya Guys,
Elder Scott Donner
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