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Familia!
What a good week. I love life. I
love my companion. And I love being a missionary!
Random/English culture: I haven't
done this in a while... I should start looking for more English phrases and
differences.
- Someone said
"Cheerio" to us. That was exciting.
- "Bless his cotton
socks"
This week was an interesting one!
Tuesday night Elder Jensen started feeling sick. (this will become relevant soon)
We blitzed the Chelmsford Elders
and the Tendring Sisters on Wednesday. Elder Jensen wasn't feeling too well.
Then we went to The Vincents home (recent convert family) for Leon's birthday.
They fed us there. Then we went to Bishops for dinner there too... wow... Why
does everyone want me to be fat?...
Thursday we had interviews with
President Stevens! It was great. Half the zone met in the morning and the other
half in the afternoon. Here are some takeaways from the meeting:
-"It's not only what you do
but who you are"
-Disobedient missionaries may
have "success" in finding, teaching & baptising, but they
will not benefit from their mission as much as they could! Obedience changes us
(John 14:15)
-Obedience & Diligence AKA
our will are all we can give to God
- President Jordan once said
"Don't make excuses. Make it happen"
Friday, my companion died... not
really but he was max sick and he slept a bunch. Which was good because he
needed it. Friday morning studies was fun. I talked to myself for a bit of the
companion study portion of the morning. :) We put Marcel on date for 30 April!
He's been taught almost everything and he was close to baptism in the past.
Sadly we won't be able to see him until saturday but Saturday, my companion was still
sick. We didn't get to go to the ward activity on saturday night because Elder
Jensen didn't want to get people sick. Bless his cotton socks... We got to do
the progress record though and that was exciting... kinda...
Church Sunday! Yay. The focus of
Sacrament meeting was Sabbath Day observance. It was great! Much of the focus
was on the most important part of the Sabbath; the sacrament. Meaningful
worship during the sacrament will make the Sabbath a delight. A missionary
spoke (namely Sister Idrizi from Albania who's going home soon) and she quoted
a leader in the church; speakers come prepared with a jug of spiritual water.
They spread it throughout the congregation as they speak. In the congregation
there are those with a big jug to catch the spiritual water, those with a small
cup who catch less water, and even those with their hand over their small cup.
Hopefully you can connect the dots and get this comparison :)
Before sunday the Watlings had
asked if we could come over for a meal after church. We said yes, because we
didn't think we had anything schedule. We got to church, looked at the meal
calendar, and discovered we had double booked DA's... Talk about major awkward
and uncomfortable. But we talked with the Watling family, and they were super
kind and forgiving. We just went over to their home for dessert.
Today! P Day. yay. I haven't had
"free time" on P day in a long time.... They've been so busy with
call ins with an AP, cleaning, grocery shopping, 3 hours of missionary work,
getting things we need, and emailing home that we just haven't had time to ourselves.
Which I've been ok with because I'm fine with being productive and using time
for missionary work, but I realise how important it is to have some free time.
Because I don't want to burn out. So, today, we scheduled time to have lunch
with our district and we'll go to the Colchester casltle! It should be fun.
I'll also get a haircut today because I need one.
Thanks for your great letters!
It's fun hearing about your lives and your livelihood. I don't know why but I
just felt like saying livelihood.
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