In front of their apartment
Well, it was an interesting week here. It was actually really wacky. First off, winter decided to come back as this week it dropped from the 60's and 70's down to the 30's and 40's. Time to break out the sweaters! I'll just say that we've really come to appreciate our car this week.
This week we weren't able to meet with very many investigators, but we were able to meet with H! He's now been taught everything he needs to know so we just reviewed some of the third lesson with him about the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Pretty sweet. H also made it to church this week, which was great. He hadn't been coming very often the last month with the holidays and everything, but he's starting to come back! Also this week, Hermana V and her daughter, Hermana P (some of our less actives) came to church for the third week in a row! They told us that it's a process, but that they've been feeling the spirit more, and they want to keep coming back! A reactivation is just as good as a baptism, so it's been great to see them come back to the church again. Our branch council has really put a focus on less actives (especially since we have so many), which has shown in our efforts. This week we visited with lots of different less actives which was great.
Also this week we had exchanges. I was back to being an English missionary from Wednesday to Thursday, as I worked with our district leader Elder M in his area. We didn't have too many set appointments, so we spent most of the time tracting and contacting potentials. We didn't see too much success, but we still had fun, and it was good for me to get some tips from an experienced missionary. Also, right at the end of the exchange we tracted into a Hispanic guy, so I got to use my Spanish.
On Friday we weren't allowed to proselyte, so we rang in the New Year with an all-day Super P-day! Pretty sweet. The Murfreesboro ZL's came up with another group of elders from Blackman, so there were 10 of us hanging out, playing games, basketball (lots and lots of basketball), and we watched a few G-rated movies. We watched "The Lion King," and "The Emperor's New Groove" (I forgot how funny that movie is holy cow). Also, President approved the movie "The Cokeville Miracle." It was so good! It's about this psycho who goes into an elementary school and is going to blow up the school and stuff, but through some miraculous circumstances, the children survive. It was exciting and spiritual, nearly brought all of us manly elders to tears. I definitely recommend it if you haven't seen it! Yeah, pretty awesome way to start the new year.
My first ponderizing scripture of the year is Alma 60:23 which says, "Do ye suppose that God will look upon you as guiltless while ye sit still and behold these things? Behold I say unto you, Nay. Now I would that ye should remember that God has said that the inward vessel shall be cleansed first, and then shall the outer vessel be cleansed also." This week I'm really trying to understand how to have the Holy Ghost as a constant companion. The first step is cleanse our thoughts, which will then cleanse our words and then our actions. We are promised in D&C 121:45 that if we garnish our thoughts with virtue unceasingly, the Holy Ghost can be our constant companion. Yup. Hope y’all have a great week!
Love,
Elder Mitchell
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