Dear Family, 8-5-2013
I'm jealous that you've been able to
spend so much time in the mountains. That something I miss a lot is the
mountains, because I can never tell which stinkin' direction I'm going. :) I
also keep trying to find investigators that fish, because then we could teach a
lesson to them an fish at the same time! But alas it hasn't happened yet. Haha
So you and mom are cooks. You should make Navajo Taco's for everyone. That's a
lot of fry bread. Mmmm :) An Elder in my district carries around a bottle of
honey with him everywhere,because he teaches so many Natives and they are
always making fry bread for them so he just makes sure he has honey all the
time. :)
So in District Mtg a couple of weeks
ago our District leader challenged us to memorize our patriarchal blessing.
Mine is like two and half pages so at first I was like. Um, no. But I
started anyway and I have the first part memorized. There is so much power in
memorization. I can always tell when I have the Spirit because it quickens
ability to memorize things. :)
So many miracles of happened this
week. We went to go follow up on a Book of Mormon that Sister W and
I had given out earlier to this lady named D. Her husband came out to
talk to us and his name is H. He's a non practicing Jew. But he was really
curious about everything. He had actually been to temple square for work and he
went up to the statue of Christ. So this guy is prepared. So he said that
he would read the Book of Mormon and we're going over this week to teach them!!
Woooooo!!! Next miracle. One night we had 20 minutes before we
needed to be home. We had finished everything that we planned and we were
all out of ideas. So we prayed. I had a thought to go to this apt
that we had been earlier and we knocked on door 23 for this less active, turns
out she didn't live there anymore. So I had a thought to go door
number 32, thinking maybe they wrote it down wrong on the ward list. So door 32
doesn't exist, but we met some people and talked with them. Then I realized
that we were in an area that Sister W and I had already tr-acted...So I
remembered talking to this one lady named E. :) We offered her a Book
of Mormon before, but she refused. So I was like "Okay, we have 10
minutes let's make them count" so we knocked on E's door and she
opened it up and was like "Hey! I was thinking about you Sisters! My mom
actually has a Book of Mormon from my brother's college friend, I'm curious and
would like to read it." Cool right?! She asked for the Book of Mormon
and said she would read it. We are also going back to teach her this
week. :)
I liked what Dad said about personal
purity. I have had that internal battle myself. We are told to be in the
world but not of the world, but how do we have that balance? Because we either
tend to be on the worldly side or the extreme spiritual side. I think it comes
down to moderation in all things. Yes, we need to be careful on the tv shows
and stuff we listen to. But at the same time it's okay to like some of the
stuff of the world. My guide was always the For Strength of Youth and I
would just gauge my Spirit whenever I was listening or watching something. I
don't know. It's a fine balance. I wasn't very good at it... I have it
easy right now because as missionaries we are literally "set
apart" from the world. However there still needs to be balanced. I
had this talk with my companion a lot this week. She is SUPER obedient,
which is so great because as missionaries we are asked to be exactly obedient
and there is so much power in that! :) But if we get home at 9:01 rather
than 9:00 we don't need to spend the next half and hour repenting. So
there really is a balance and a need for moderation. This coming week the
Christlike attribute I'm working on is Humility, because I'm a prideful
soul. I love PMG definition of Pride. "Pride means to put greater
trust in oneself than in God or in His servants. It also means to put the
things of the world above the things of God. Prideful people take honor
to themselves rather than giving God the glory. Pride is competitive;
those who are prideful seek to have more and presume they are better than other
people. Pride usually results in feelings of anger and hatred, and it is
a great stumbling block." So yeah. Pray for me please. :)
This week I have also been reading
out of Mosiah a lot. Chapters 3 and 4 are incredible! I especially like Mosiah
4:9-11 "always retain in remembrance the greatness of God." Powerful
stuff. :)
Well I love you all so much. Thanks Dad for the email. I
love you tons and I often find myself relating to investigators something that
you've taught me in the past. :) So thanks for your example and counsel.
Love, Sister Curfew
P.S. "Lobser Bisque!" ;)
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