There wasn't anything that happened that was too out of the ordinary this week. Just regular missionary work. Knocking doors, teaching lessons, driving around Perth Amboy all that fun stuff. BUT, last Monday our President issued the challenge to have at least 10 contacts per day and he promised us that if our mission started doing that we would all be blessed with people to teach. So, we took that commitment and promise pretty seriously. I LOVED it. In West New York we would contact people, but only when we felt impressed too or something like that, so we weren't really trying to just go around contacting people, so really up until now in my mission I haven't really set a goal for myself about how many people to contact a day so I really just haven't been focusing on contacting people. Because of this challenge though, we have been putting specific time and specific places to knock. Just to knock not to go try anyone in specific and we have seen such great blessings from it. We have been talking to so many people and about their lives and about Jesus Christ and we have found so many ways to serve people. I have come to realize that its not just missionary work, but it's life. This is how life should be. We should always be making time for people and we should be telling God exactly what we are going to be doing every day and where we are going to be and asking Him to put them in our paths. If we do that and we are listening for the promptings of the spirit, we can be of great help to people.
I was reading in preach my gospel this morning in the first chapter "my purpose" underneath where it says "a successful missionaries" - It said that a successful missionary is one who shows kindness to everybody and offers their service to everybody whether they accept your message or not. I have come to realize how true that is. IT is not about whether or not they accept our message, it is about doing what Jesus Christ would do and loving them the way Jesus Christ would love them if he were there talking to them. Soooo, I guess that is the big thing that I learned this week... That I actually love knocking doors. At the beginning of my mission I hated contacting and knocking doors, but now I love it. It's not about me, its about them.
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| The sisters in my zone with the one mascot "Cleatus." |
There wasn't anything that happened that was too out of the ordinary this week. Just regular missionary work. Knocking doors, teaching lessons, driving around Perth Amboy all that fun stuff. BUT, last Monday our President issued the challenge to have at least 10 contacts per day and he promised us that if our mission started doing that we would all be blessed with people to teach. So, we took that commitment and promise pretty seriously. I LOVED it. In West New York we would contact people, but only when we felt impressed too or something like that, so we weren't really trying to just go around contacting people, so really up until now in my mission I haven't really set a goal for myself about how many people to contact a day so I really just haven't been focusing on contacting people. Because of this challenge though, we have been putting specific time and specific places to knock. Just to knock not to go try anyone in specific and we have seen such great blessings from it. We have been talking to so many people and about their lives and about Jesus Christ and we have found so many ways to serve people. I have come to realize that its not just missionary work, but it's life. This is how life should be. We should always be making time for people and we should be telling God exactly what we are going to be doing every day and where we are going to be and asking Him to put them in our paths. If we do that and we are listening for the promptings of the spirit, we can be of great help to people.
I was reading in preach my gospel this morning in the first chapter "my purpose" underneath where it says "a successful missionaries" - It said that a successful missionary is one who shows kindness to everybody and offers their service to everybody whether they accept your message or not. I have come to realize how true that is. IT is not about whether or not they accept our message, it is about doing what Jesus Christ would do and loving them the way Jesus Christ would love them if he were there talking to them. Soooo, I guess that is the big thing that I learned this week... That I actually love knocking doors. At the beginning of my mission I hated contacting and knocking doors, but now I love it. It's not about me, its about them.
A fun lesson that we are doing tonight. I'm excited.
We had a really powerful lesson with her. She listens very intently to what we are saying and she tries really hard to understand her. We ask her a lot of questions to check to see if she understands and she always answers back perfectly and she understands what we have taught her. We went back two days later and taught her the restoration and about the Book of Mormon. She was so excited and she felt the spirit. We asked her if she wanted to know for her self if Joseph Smith was a prophet and if the Book of Mormon was true. She said she did and we committed her to read and pray. She is so so awesome. I'm excited to see her progress. We hope to put her on date for baptism soon.
Well, I'm out of time on this computer, but I love you all and thank you for your prayers and support. Have a good week!
Paula's family. Cutest kids ever. They made cookies.
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