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| I think this clearly demonstrates our relationship....we love each other a whole bunch. |
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| The district at the one and only museum in Kalgoorlie. |
Another
amazing week here in Kalgoorlie! I seriously can't get over how happy I am to
be here. I love everything about it! We were blessed to have a lot of people to
teach this week. We were able to find 9 new investigators and with the 10 we
found last week, it really helps keep our teaching pool flowing nicely. I love
it. I think it was a huge blessing, especially since we set up soo many member
present lessons, but heaps of them fell through. We were still able to get a
good amount but we had potential for heaps.
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| With the "netball girls" after our lesson, I love them! |
I think
some of my favorite lessons were with the “netball girls”. We taught them in
between and after their netball games. So it wasn't the ideal setting, but they
still received them well. They are really grasping what we're teaching, even
though it's so different for them. We invited them to pray daily and they've
been following through perfectly. They are golden! This week we should be
setting a very firm baptismal date with them! They're so good! And the members
are awesome too with helping us, since they live so far away and we have
limited k's.
Saturday
was an amazing day. It was full on! But it was so good. That's the way I like
it. We had appointments all day and a lot of them fell through but we had good
back up plans with former investigators to follow up with and through that we
found a lot of new investigators. It was such a blessing. God is good.
Church was
great. We had four investigators there and a few less actives as well, which was
so rewarding. It's just so nice to be sitting at church with people who are
progressing in the gospel. It's perfect. You never have to think about you,
it's just all focused on them. I love that about a mission. You don't have time
to think about yourself. It's the best.
There was
one hard part of Sunday though. We had our missionary coordination meeting and
it was going well we even had the Bishop and a member of the bishopric there,
but one of the Elders started saying things that I think just put them off. I
know he meant well, but it just felt to me like it may have seemed a bit
judgmental and condescending. It also feels like sometimes, that our missionary work is a
competition to him, like he has to beat us or something. I was tempted to get out of there after the meeting ended and give him a piece of my mind about how I felt he’d handled the meeting and
for being competitive, but I prayed a lot instead. I knew that more important than
anything was acting out of love rather than reacting to a situation. We came
home and did personal study and I was still thinking about how to handle the
situation. I read D&C 121 and at first I was thinking about how he really
should read it, then I realized that I really needed it too. I need to make
sure that I'm not doing the same thing to him that I feel he may be doing to
the ward. I felt a lot of love for him and was able to focus more on what the
intentions of his heart are and giving him the benefit of the doubt. It helped
me feel a lot freer and it helped me keep the unity in our district, which is
so important with just four of us. He's a good elder who has good intentions
and I saw him more how God sees him today, which really helped me a lot.
We were
also teaching a lesson this week and the investigator was asking us about all
of our rules as missionaries. Then he asked how long we had left. I started
telling him that the rules weren't a burden for us. We didn't mind because it's
worth it for the experience. Then I started crying... thinking about not having
all the rules any more. I felt sad. I'm glad a still have ages left so that I
can keep living this life style. I love it. I love it with all my heart. Don't
get me wrong I'm excited to see you all and be with you, but I just love being
here as well. God is blessing me so so much.
I love you
all and hope you have a great week! Thank you for your love and prayers.
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