Well hello everybody!
This week went by really fast.
There was a holiday at the end of the week, so everybody was out of the house Thursday
Friday AND Saturday. The holidays are always like that here... I fooled myself
thinking there would be a ton of people home! haha.
So, this week, we started a new
thing in the mission where we are supposed to visit one family in our area
every day to strengthen the ward and to get references. So we started by going
to families who knew lots of people, and we had them indicate families needing
visits, so we could get the most effective work in. We have about 35-40
households we can visit now, so we should be set on that the next week.
Also during our lunches, we
started leaving a special message with a copy of the Book of Mormon so the
member could give it to someone to prepare them to receive the lessons. I
thought a lot about what Mom had said about the lack of sincerity that some
references had. So I tried to help the members understand the importance of
preparing someone to receive the message. I wanted to instill a practice of
preparing people to be taught, rather than hoping that they would be prepared
to receive the message. The message I left was in Alma 26. I talked about what
the blessings of missionary work was.
1 And
now, these are the words of Ammon to his brethren, which say thus: My brothers
and my brethren, behold I say unto you, how great reason have we to rejoice;
for could we have supposed when we started from the land of Zarahemla
that God would have granted unto us such great blessings?
3 Behold,
I answer for you; for our brethren, the Lamanites, were in darkness, yea, even
in the darkest abyss, but behold, how many of them are brought
to behold the marvelous light of God! And this is the blessing which hath been
bestowed upon us, that we have been made instruments in the hands of God
to bring about this great work.
5 Behold,
the field was ripe, and blessed are ye, for ye did thrust in the
sickle, and did reap with your might, yea, all the day long did ye labor; and
behold the number of your sheaves! And they shall be gathered into the
garners, that they are not wasted.
The blessings that they received
was their ability to be instruments in the hands of God. If we do nothing but
talk about a person to the Elders, we will receive no blessing. That is why it
is important that we help people with an invite to church, a Book of Mormon, or
inviting someone to a family night. If we work, we will be blessed, and the
blessings will come in the form of more and more people that the Lord trusts us
to share our message.
At the end of the week, we had a
good visit with a less active and his wife. She had gone to church a lot when they
were dating, buy when she was told she couldn´t stay with him in his ward, she
didn´t want to be baptized. I took the cue and asked the obvious question that
she wanted to go to church and be close to him. She responded yes, and I told
her that they can be together if they go to church again. We talked about the
temple a little bit, and then answered some questions. The next morning, they
were at church at 8:30 and they participated the whole time. They were really
happy to receive our visit, and they were pretty self motivated to go back to
church. Our plan is to strengthen their testimonies again so that they can be
able to go through the temple together and be sealed as a family for eternity.
So, that was our week! There
wasn´t a whole lot that went on, but we were plenty busy.
Love you all!
Elder Cornwell
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