This week was one
of the best and hardest weeks of the mission! We had a mission wide fast
on Friday. We fasted for investigators, and for the hearts of the people to
soften. That was the hardest fast of my life! I had no energy. I just about
passed out! I was not the only one, everyone in the zone said that it was
really really hard! All of our appointments cancelled. Someone for sure did not
want us to be fasting for this cause! That whole day was rough, it started in
the morning. We were going to go to the temple. My comp started the car to warm
it up because it snowed that night and there was a bunch of snow on the car. We
were going to drive to a member’s house so he could take us to the temple. I
do not know how this happened but someone tried to keep us from going to the temple.
We locked our keys in the car with the car running! Dad this reminded me of
you! Unable to get into our car, we went to our member that lives upstairs and
he called AAA. The member that was going to take us to the temple came and picked
us up, and we went to the temple leaving behind our car running. Our member
that we lived with took care of our car. When we got to the temple, he texted
us saying that our keys were on the table. That text was relieving because
those Chevy Cruizes are not easy to get into.
We went to Magrath
for a Zone Conference. That went really well. Lots of things learned and not a
whole lot of changes in the mission. After Zone Conference we made it home just
in time for our lesson with our investigator. There we got another new
investigator! When we taught our investigator Todd, his mother-in-law was there
and we invited her to come and listen. She listened well, had lots of
questions, and was engaged in the lesson. 30 years ago she was kicked out of
her church and never went into a church again. As we were talking she agreed
with everything that we said. She accepted a Book of Mormon and two pamphlets.
We have a lesson with them today. Yesterday we were planning for them and
role-playing at the Church. We were planning on teaching the Plan of Salvation.
Role-playing that lesson was hard! It was had to know what to say and how to
say it. The Spirit was not there. We both knew it was not there. Both of us were
not feeling it, but it was easy to talk about the points in that lesson that
are the same points in the Gospel of Jesus Christ. After that role-play we went
home. This morning we were about to role-play the Plan of Salvation again, but
I said, “Maybe we are not suppose to teach this lesson. The Spirit was not
there last time and we’re not feeling it this time.” So we placed the
Restoration, Plan of Salvation and Gospel of Jesus Christ pamphlets on the
floor and we prayed about it. We both came to the conclusion that we need to
teach the Gospel of Jesus Christ! We role-played that lesson for companionship
study and it went really really well! The Spirit was there!
That just shows how
it is so important and so critical to have the Spirit there when you teach
because he is the teacher! Without it you CANNOT teach. Without the Spirit the
words will struggle coming out of your mouth and they will almost choke you as
they come out. That is why as a missionary you are held to a higher standard,
and you need to keep yourself worthy and use the Atonement. That is what it’s
there for. That way you will have the Spirit to be with you as you teach.
Tanner you are the next one to go on a mission. It’s crunch time. Keep leading
by example. Hopefully this helps. Where ever you go it will be the experience
of a lifetime! You will be a great missionary! Stay worthy!
On Friday we had
the opportunity to watch the Mormon Tabernacle Choir sing Handles Messiah at
the Church. We invited members from the community choir. The head guy, John,
the one that told me not to sing very loud, came. He LOVES the Mormon
Tabernacle Choir. He watches them every chance he can get. He watches them at
Christmas time. All during the broadcast, when he sat behind us he was
basically leading them. Tenor 1, Basses go, and now the Sopranos are going to
come in. He loved it! We had one other person from the community choir as well,
and a member who had her records removed came with her husband who we have been
trying to teach.
I’m really looking
forward to General Conference it is going to be really good!
I sent a package
along with my coat with a member that was going down to Utah, He should be
calling any day. The funny thing is after I sent my coat, the next day it
snowed! haha but its all gone now.
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