This week has been amazing/hard/beautiful/tiring. Missions truly are one of the biggest roller coasters that you can ever get on in your life. We focus on a lot of less actives that are in our area because we have a lot of hindu and muslim people who are very rarely allow you to teach them so knocking doors and even street contacting has very few effects that result to lessons.
Anyway so we have been teaching a less active named Rosy and she fell through cracks because she was baptized and then moved to a new ward and was afraid to ask anyone for a ride to church and let alone she did not even know where a church(she has a hard time reading English so she was unable to find it online) She was baptized three years ago and we started meeting with her just a few weeks ago. She really loves the church and is already doing pretty much every single commitment we have given her so we decided to make a goal for her that was even higher... the temple. In our last lesson we committed her to preparing herself to go to the temple and she responded with "I'm ready." I was so shocked I did not know what to think. We are going to prepare with her to go to the temple soon and it will be so amazing!
We also talked with a man who is married to member and he comes to church every week! We talked about why he has not yet been baptized, because even when his wife is gone he still goes. He already has had the missionary disscussions so we are just going to see if we can help him come to understand that the Book of Mormon is true. He is one of the most amazing people I have met in my life.
This week I had a focus on dilligence and learned a lot. I came to understand how our thoughts affect our works and vis versa. I realized often my thoughts were being distracted and I wondered why I was not feeling success in lessons, in contacting, etc. When I realized what it means to be truly dilligent. The idea of being dilligent to God moved from my head to my heart. When you are focused on what you should be then God endows with the spirit. The day that I tried to stay the most focused I truly felt the spirit in all of our lessons.
The last thing is a shout out to my father! This fathers day was the first one I have ever been to with out being with my dad and because of that my thoughts tended to turn to both my physical and spiritual father. I realized how important fatherhood is and how much comes from having a father who just wants you to find success this was probably when I realized my new goal as a missionary, and that was that I will not do anything to dissappoint my father....either of them. I know that God loves us so much and he micromanages each part of our life, he gives us what we need most to help us become our best. I love both of my fathers so much and I know that I have inherited charecteristics of both and what a blessing that is.
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