How have you been, what is happening, I have been
working hard to get this area ready for in case we are transferred on out, but
I think we will be together for another transfer. We have been doing as dad instructed and have
seen some things come from it, but we have to wait for the end of the week
before we can see any definitive results. I have been working on planning
better, but at last I still will do better than last time. We are having a BBQ
as a zone today so that is AWESOME but they won't let me grill, (don't worry,
it’s because missionaries can't play with fire so we are all "pyro-maniacs.")
Yes, BOOK OF MORMON READING IS ESSENTIAL, FOR
CONVERSION, people have a hard time understanding that, but I understand it
more than I did before I was on my mission. Silence is something that I have
gotten better at. Our District Leader (Our
DL) told me to shut up and let Elder Facer Talk more, because Elder Facer is
the quite type that is perfectly fine with being silent for EVERYTHING, even in
the lessons, and it is usually me teaching.
So, our DL also told me "Be more like a Greenie and don't say
anything just look at your companion with a confused look and let them take
over briefly." Yeah Elder Van, Being Quiet, I would
pay to see that day. Teaching has gotten better for me I
now can go straight in to testifying, and I teach by the spirit because there
is NO OTHER WAY TO TEACH, ask any Spanish missionary, they will tell you.
Well My mother's day talk went great, the meeting was
15 minutes late in getting starting, due to the fact that there was no one
there till 5 minutes after the meeting started.
My talk was mainly to a bunch of people who are of the senior side of
life, and they loved it. I got up and
basically bore my testimony to them for 10 minutes. I never thought that I would be able to stand
there for longer than 3 minutes max to talk to a ward, but as a missionary you
are expected to go out and to testify, so yeah I have been getting better, it
also helped that it is a small ward and about half were out in the foyer.
Yeah, Elder Facer groaned because we have a difference
of opinions of how we should progress in teaching of the investigators, and I
am of the opinion that dad is right, and we tried it and we get to see the
results of it by the end of this week; and usually yes, we keep on going on and
teaching, but we are trying this for a week to see. I am going to push for 2-3
weeks before we stop. We dropped some people that weren't willing to accept but
if all things work out (thank you Atonement) they will come around to what we
taught them. The Atonement is real, without it I would be woefully discouraged,
and it is what is necessary for me to teach with the spirit, if I don't partake
then the spirit ceases to abide with me, so I will be the best I can be and
partake of the atonement as often as I can. I think of Alma and Amulek when
they were cast into prison and made to watch the righteous be martyred. I think of this in comparison with me and the
people of California, I wish like Alma and Amulek to stretch for our hands and
exercise the priesthood to save them, but some of them refused to be saved and
will not accept the gospel. Oh how I wish I could save them from their choices,
and remove it from them, but at last I will not take their Agency from them,
because the Lord will exercise Perfect Justice and Perfect Mercy. Oh the
vainness and the frailties of man and the desire to exercise unrighteous
dominion, (Doctrine and Covenants 121: 36-37)
Yeah, I know people have their Agency, and it sucks when they use it so
wrong, is this what it feel like to be a parent with a kid?
Love you,
Ammon
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