Dear Familia, amigos y mundo!
This past week was hard and fun and stressful
and just great! Yeah, I know what youre thinking how in the name of
Barrancabermeja can a week be good when it’s hard and stressful? The honest
truth is, I don’t know! But that’s the mission for ya!
Where to start is the good question? Well, first
maybe a Happy Birthday to my Grandma Weaver which is today!! That’s pretty
sweet! HAHA hope you have a good one! I love ya!
Well the week started off pretty normal
teaching and preaching ya know and I think maybe I started to see and feel the
pressure of the goals that our zone has set. We set goals that were fine but, I
felt the pressure not gonna lie. And I have enjoyed getting to know a lot of
people and it has helped my Spanish but sometimes it feels like we are just
repeating the same things over and over again and I would love to mix it up a
little bit. But, my companion insists on saying almost the same things over and
over again to start every discussion. Well, in companionship inventory I told
him, “Hey, let's mix it up.” And then that was the thing he told me to improve
on... Ok thanks... So, during that day I was kind of struggling and I was
frustrated and I was trying to just be patient and I don't know but I kinda
just broke down a bit. I was struggling. Well, after being with one of the zone
leaders for a day he helped me a lot to see what I'm really doing and to help
me with patience and all that jazz. I decided that the only way to get better
was to let things role off my back. To just work and to teach to the best of my
ability and try to be me. Try to have a bit of fun and look at the day
differently. And so that's what I did. I stopped letting the little things get
to me such as my companion snapping and meowing at every cat he sees! Yes, he
does that! And the week was great! We got a lot of new investigators and I
really felt the spirit in the lessons. And, I actually understood these people!
So, like I titled this I am still learning. Learning to be patient and humble
and how to adjust to the mission life and how to do everything!
I don't want this email to sound like, “Oh
poor Elder Weaver” cause it’s not! I'm fine. I was trying to remember what
happened this week, but it went by so fast! We have found soooooo many great
people and I am so grateful for the members! They are really starting to help
us more cause we have been pushing for it! We have one investigator named Rubis
and by the second visit she had read the parts we designed and wrote a summary
and then told us the things she thought and it was amazing. My comp and the
member and I were about shocked to the point we couldn't talk for a hot minute!
She didn't come to church though because she got really sick... Then, we received
some great news that Sharik y Melani who are these two sweet little girls with
parents who aren't members or married but their older sister is. The mom really
wants them to be baptized now before she was waiting for the permission of the
dad who just said, “No, they’re too young.” And yesterday she was like, “yeah I
don’t care I want them baptized it’s better for them I will convince their dad…”
OK sounds good to me! These girls have said constantly how they believe and
want to be baptized and it finally will happen in February! So that’s a
miracle! Then little things like in a taxi the diver asks, "Are you
Mormons cause I have your book and I really want to learn more......" Or,
finally getting into houses and teaching because we have members with us!
Sometimes it’s the little things ya know. And I think that’s what I really
learned this week. It’s the little things in life on the mission.
Yeah, the mission is tough and life is tough
but sometimes we need to slow down and just look. Look at the day and really
pick out the little things that happened and the tender mercies. I am sure that
they are full of things you just don’t know. I had to do that this week and just
step back, breath, and look. Look at the lives I have affected, look at what my
trials have actually brought me and wow I have a lot. This week I saw miracles!
It may not show in numbers of people that came to church but I do know I did
something. I did help in some way, shape, or form. It’s the little things. It’s
being patient when you really don't want to be. Such as why won’t this dad let
his children receive baptism? Then, all of the sudden with patience hey this
might happen. It’s about looking beyond yourself and reaching out in any way
possible, trying to apply the attributes of Christ every day. The mission is
stressful, hard and difficult. And people may say you shouldn’t say that. Well,
I say the sooner you accept it the better off you’ll be. I use wrestling an my
example. Wrestling was tough, hard, and difficult and the sooner I recognized
that the better off I was and then I just set my eyes on the prize. That's how
it is here.
This may not be the best email in the world
and it might be all over the place. Sorry dyslexia... But, I do know that The Book of Mormon and the Gospel Of Jesus
Christ changes lives and it’s changed mine and continues to change me! I love
it! I’m so happy! And I am really starting to see the blessings more and more
every day!
Elder Weaver
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