His new companion has nicknamed their car "Rosy the Riveter."
Buenos!
Well, this week has been a pretty good one! Monday and Tuesday we were busy getting ready for transfers, saying bye to people, and then, Wednesday morning I met my new greenie! My new companion is Elder M!! Just a little about him: he is from Mesa, AZ, is the second-oldest out of 4 boys, age 19, he did a year of college before the mission at BYU/UVU, loves just about every sport out there, and he is absolutely stoked to be a missionary! He is just full of fire, ready to share the gospel with everyone! His Spanish is pretty good too, since he studied it in high school, so he's doing good with that. We had a pretty good first day after getting back from transfers. We were able to work hard, knock a lot of doors, and right at the end of the day we found a solid new investigator, M, who has a lot of Joseph-Smith-type questions. It was great. This week we were able to teach a lot, find some new investigators, and work with a lot of less actives, so it was a pretty good week.
This week we did have some trouble meeting with some of our top investigators. We couldn't meet with E this week, and R is about to have her baby any day now, so we weren't able to meet with her and A this week either. We did have a great lesson with one of our solid guys, H. We finished teaching him the Plan of Salvation, and invited him to baptism on October 8th. He told us that he wants to be baptized, but he wants to keep learning more before he sets a date. But, he's doing really well.
Probably the highlight from this week was our lesson with our long-time eterni-gators D and O. I figured we'd just go in and explain that we were dropping them, but the spirit led us another way. We followed up with D on her Book of Mormon reading, and she told us that once again, she hadn't read. We laid down the law with her, explaining the importance of keeping commitments, and how we need to put God first in our lives. The spirit was so strong in that room, we felt it guiding the words that we should say, and it really touched her heart. That lesson was exactly what D needed. I think this will really start to change things with her, and we are already seeing that. This week, D and O came to church!! We are hoping that they will continue to progress, and we're excited to see what happens.
My ponderizer this week is 1 Nephi 3:5. In the church, we always read 1 Nephi 3:7, but check out verse 5! It says, "And now, behold thy brothers murmur, saying it is a hard thing which I have required of them; but behold I have not required it of them, but it is a commandment of the Lord." This was one of the scriptures we were prompted to share with D, and it teaches a powerful lesson. It's so easy to feel like we have to do so many things as members of the church. We’ve got to pray, we’ve got to read the scriptures, we’ve got to go to three hours of church each week, pay tithing, and live the high standards of the church. If you're a missionary you’ve got to get up at 6:30, stand outside the car when you back up, etc. But, we need to recognize that the Lord is the one who requires these things from us. He expects us to keep our commitments, live the commandments, and honor our covenants. As we do so, he will bless us with the power to accomplish anything that he requires of us! I know that's true, in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen. Hope y'all have a great week!
Love,
Elder Mitchell
Elder J saying goodbye to the T family
With his new companion Elder M
He probably got up pretty early that day!
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