President talked
about how we are out here to baptize X number of people, but also to climb the
spiritual ladder found in the third lesson (faith, repentance, baptism, gift of
the Holy Ghost, persevere <--- I don't remember this word in English)
faster and farther than we would if we were at home; and this past week
in church one of the speakers who is also a return missionary said that while
he was on his mission, his Mission President told him that he was doing things
of far greater worth on his mission than any other thing he could be doing at
home. Both these points reaffirmed that I'm right where I'm supposed to be - in
the center of God's plan for me and how grateful I am that THIS is God's plan
for me. His plans were definitely greater than mine, but I'm working on living
up to my potential (shout out to Sister Bocanegra's email this week) both on
the mission and in life in general, you only get one of each!
I had a teaching
moment this week I thought would be kind of fun to share. We've been trying to
teach one of our recent convert's brothers for several weeks now, but whenever
we find him at home, he's always playing war video games and can't pull his
attention away from the screen long enough to hear what church we are from.
This week though as he was absorbed in his game, I conversationally said,
"Did you know I could help you beat this game with the Book of
Mormon?" He paused the game (cheer!). I then showed him some strategies
war heroes like Moroni and Helaman used in the war chapters of the Book of
Mormon. He was genuinely intrigued! I then bore testimony of the Book of Mormon
and how cool it was that God decided to give us his word through action stories
and war scenes. He thought that was pretty cool too, and I think this week
we're going to see some real progression with him. You have to teach how you
would want to be taught, and if that means teach to beat video games than on
men, on to victory!
Signing out,
Sister Hanzel
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| District Activity |
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| with Vera, our member in Achada Gomes who helps us with lessons out there |
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