My week…well, my week was pretty good. I think there’s this funny phenomenon as a
missionary where you sit down to review your week and you can’t remember a
single…solitary…thing that happened!
That’s me right now. So in no
particular order…my week:
We started teaching Brad this week! Brad is a 21 year old guy with a really
really troubled past. He’s been wanting
to change his life for quite some time but never could seem to break the cycle
he was in. Well we’ve taught him twice
this week (restoration & plan of salvation) and he’s on date to be baptized
for the 25th. I have never
seen someone so excited to be baptized…he has caught the fire of the
Gospel! He’s even doing more missionary
work that the members down here! So far
he’s brought a friend to church, invited the lady down the street to hear the
missionary lessons, and he even committed someone to be baptized for us! God is sure blessing us and we’re doing our
very best to deserve it! J
One night we were knocking in a neighborhood chuck-full of
DNC’s (do not contact…scary stuff!) we were doing our very best to avoid the
people who were mean, and knocked right into a miracle instead J We were walking and there was a guy outside
taking a break from his football game,
and smoking up a storm. We started
talking to him and it turns out he had just been thinking about how he needed
to find a good church to join for the New Year.
Perfect! We just happen to have a
really fantastic one off of Bacons Bridge Road!
J We gave him a BOM. explained what it was, and
are super excited to go back J
I got to teach Mission Prep last night…oh my heavens…teenage
boys start out as such awkward teachers!
It was hilarious! But we taught a
pretty good lesson, if I do say so myself!
J
Kitt bought us an ASL Book of Mormon! It’s on DVD, and has people sighing…way
neat! J My goal is to be able to sign my testimony by
the end of next month…wish me luck!
I got to go on exchanges with Sister Warden on Monday! Remember her, who lived with me in
Simpsonville? She was so fun to work
with! President Holm always talks aout
how we should work with urgency, bordering on emergency and Sister Warden has
mastered that! She’s got more energy and
drive than anyone I’ve ever met! J
MLC this week! They
announced tons of meetings coming up (miles are gonna be fun this month!)
including another big lift, and no more strangers, and specialized training by
President/Sister Holms (I Pads? Who
knows…) Here is a sublist of President
Holm’s quotes:
1. “We have finite number of clean slates”
2. “You show me a person who
strives to do the Father’s will and I’ll show you someone who's celestial material"
3. “The new day has nothing to do
with the past day”
4.
“Honesty is the only answer, 100% of the time, no matter the consequences”
President talked a lot about the Savior, and how almost
everything we have recorded of him happened with a span of 3 years. Three years and yet the things that occurred were
so important, the world changed its calendar according to his life. Crazy!
The Brethren have also asked us to double the # of baptisms. Whoa!
The work is hastening, guys. Israel
is being gathered.
I got to give a training @ our Zone meeting. 20 minutes on being a “fire in the belly”
missionary. I know my family is dying at
the thought of me standing in front of people and running my mouth for 20
minutes. ..It’s hard enough getting me to talk for 5. But I actually do it about twice a
month. It’s good stuff. It was a cool training to plan for. As I researched what I was going to say I
realized that almost every time the scriptures refer to “fire’ they’re referring
to the Holy Ghost. Ex : The baptism of
water and fire…God descending in a pillar of fire…the spirit of God like a fire
is burning…I could go on. There’s a
reason that people describe the Holy Spirit as warm! Being a “fire in the belly” missionary is simply
having the spirit with you. That’s what
gets you excited and pumped…that’s what gives you the miracles. Cool training to give. J
Welp there’s my week.
It was pretty good one. Hope y’all
enjoyed your New-Year’s celebrations, and I see ya next week!
Y’all have a blessed week,
Sister Derrick
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