It is transfer week, but I didn’t
have changes, neither did my companion. Two elders in the district have
changes, one finished his mission and the other went to a different area. I won’t
find out until later who the new people are.
The week has been slow. Not a lot of
people home or any new experiences. Lots of walking and lots of heat. My companion
still is a bit down he has been really quiet lately. I know a lot of his
feelings have to do with the work and the fact that we haven’t had a lot of it.
We spend a lot of time walking around looking and knocking for people. I guess
we will see if we can get some more success going in that aspect.
Caren actually got baptized this
last week. I went on Friday and I interviewed her for the baptism and she was
one of the most prepared people. Usually during the interview I have to explain
a lot like detailed definitions. But she knew all of the answers perfect and
was able to answer all of the questions in depth. It is cool to see that the
lord is preparing people and has prepared them and they are all out there just
waiting to be found.
Thanks for the advice with my
companion. The hard work is what we have been lacking. Lots of walking and sun.
So he has lots of time to think and get distracted by home. I hope this week we
can kick it up a few notches and help him get his mind of home.
This week we had a capacitation from
President Chaves he talked about the importance of work in the building of the
kingdom of god. He talked about all of the work and preparation that the Lord
has done so far. He has been preparing people by moving them around and moving
neighbors around so people get those seeds planted, he has been preparing the
members since the time of the organization of the church for now when the
prophet has announced that this is the time for members and missionaries to
work together.
The lord has prepared President Chavez
with the scriptures all of his life to help us become better missionaries to
help the work of the lord. The Book of Mormon was worked on and prepared ever
since 600 years before Christ came. The missionaries are being called at a
younger age and more is being required of them because we have been prepared
more. We have been preparing and learning in the pre-life ever since the
creation of the earth.
We may not have the capacity to all
of those things or to do things that are even close but we have to do our part.
We have to contribute to the work of the Lord. To be the most effective we have
to learn to work with goals and with mini goals to achieve the bigger goals we
have to lay out a plan with checkpoints to arrive at our goals.
He shared a quote from elder oaks it
says:
“To believe isn’t sufficient,
testify is to know and to say, to be converted is to do and to become.”
He says we believe but it isn’t
sufficient because even the devils believe too, the only difference is that we don’t
tremble (James 2:19) we testify as well but what we lack is the conversion. To
do and to become. We should look at it like this what is it that I want to
become? A good missionary? good comp.?good parent? a god? then we need to look
at what we need to do. what work needs to be done.
If you always have in your mind what
you want to become, e.g. a god. getting up at 6am every day gets easier,
getting along with companion is easier. Because if you can’t deal with you comp
how are you going to deal with a third part of your spirit children when they rebel?
Love Elder Blanchard
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