So glad to hear about the work done on the house! And thank you for talking to Jordan and Kolt about writing me, I need all the help I can get, seriously. This is all completely new to me, obviously... I need all help that anyone can give me. Thank them for me, will you?
Going to Jerusalem without me, huh??!!! GO!!!! Holy cow, the chance of a life time!!! I am so jealous right now... Wow. Plan Argentina as the next vacation for the fam!! Haha! But seriously mom, this is a chance you cannot pass up, Dad, you too!! Seriously, you shouldn´t pass up an opportunity like this! (Before I forget, Grandma, Melyn, Aubrey... I´m not ignoring you! I get your letters every week, I just don´t have the time to always write back, but I´m in the process of writing a huge bunch of letters to send home, don´t worry, I love you guys!) Go, Mom. Go to Jerusalem. Ah, wow... So cool. We have such a loving family. Omi and Buppi are incredible to us. I would love it if you could send me CD´s!! Wait for another transfer or two, though. Ludovico Einaudi has some of the best piano songs ever. Jon Schmidt would be good, and also a bunch of MoTab and other church artists, but I don´t need it right now. :)
Tulio is leaving on a 15 day trip to Buenos Aires, so I´ll be working with him later. Manuel came to church again, but halfway through the second hour, he told me he had to go to the bathroom, but he ended up booking it! I think it was because he was feeling uncomfortable, not understanding everything. The fault of a missionary who still doesn´t know what he´s doing... ;) He has his baptism this Saturday, I´m praying that he will be ready. I love that quote, and I gave a blessing to an inactive member named Gumer. He´d been having a problem with his jaw, and now it´s fine. :) The power of Faith....
Last Monday was by far a day of emotions. I can´t tell you how difficult it was that first week. He isn´t Trucho, but he needs encouragement. He will not work if you don´t work. He also has a very interesting way of teaching.. It´s very difficult for me to get a word in sometimes. He´s always pointing his finger at the person we´re teaching and trying to convince them of stuff without listening to their doubts or concerns. It´s such a hard thing to have to deal with. I can tell you one thing... I have learned that prayer is the most important thing in this work. There´s a sign that Kolt gave me that says Missionary Work is 100% Spiritual. How true that is. I have gained a greater relationship with my Heavenly Father through hours of pouring out my soul to him in help and supplication. Prayer is by far, the most important thing that we can do to strengthen our relationship with our Heavenly Father!!! PRAY!!!
One cool experience we had was with a girl named Belyn. We taught her once before, and then came back, but couldn´t go into the house because it was only her. So what I decided to do was have the lesson right there at the door! She grabbed a chair, and we stood and began to speak about the BoM and the importance of reading and asking God about it. It was such an interesting experience to have a lesson with half the people inside the house, and us outside. Haha!
We have a planning session every Thursday for the week. It´s a 3 hour session of deep planning for everything we´re going to be doing for the week. This last Thursday was... terrible. E. Rojas and I fought for an entire hour about Manuel. I had been worried that Pres. Leal the Branch Pres. wouldn´t let him get baptized this week because he didn´t come to all three hours of church the week before, I said we needed to postpone the fecha for baptism. E. Rojas did not like that, and we began to have an argument about everything we didn´t like about each other. It was intense, ha... But necessary. A lot of it was my pride and stubborness. One thing you cannot do in life is blame others. It was my fault. I learned a lot from that fight. Manuel IS getting baptized this Saturday, if he can realize the importance of this sacred ordinance. Since that day we´ve been better as a companionship. I´m still trying to do the leading, and more and more i´m realizing how little E. Rojas knows about really being a true missionary. More on that in a little bit.
Remember Diego? He said he didn´t want to talk to us again, remember? Well we went back, and he accepted a fecha for the 16 of July. It was a good lesson, but I didn´t say one word. Seriously. E. Rojas spoke the entire time, and I don´t want to say this, but I kind of think Diego accepted a little just out of pressure...I don´t know. But he has the fecha, so that is incredible.
Had my interview with President Peterson. What an incredible President I have. I love him and his wife so much! We talked about the things that had been happening with E. Rojas, and also about how I can more better strengthen my studying and things of that nature. It was a very good interview. E. Smoot and E. Woodbury, the assistants to the President stayed in our Pench that night and the next day, Sunday, we did divisions. E. Smoot with me. It was such a good day. To finally work with a missionary who has been in the mission for a long time, and really, truly, is a missionary. Everything he taught me was just incredible and awe inspiring. The advice he gave me was so needed. We did a lot of preparation to prepare me long term, but also I learned a lot about teaching through the Spirit, contacts, references and things like that. We had a lesson at the end of the day with a family named Hernan, Maria and their 1 yr old daughter. The Spirit was SO strong. We didn´t go in with any plan, we got to know them more as people, and then began to teach through the Spirit, the things that they needed to hear. It was such a good experience. I loved it. I´m kind of scared of taking E. Rojas to them because I´m afraid he will try and dump a whole lot of info on them. This is not how you teach through the Spirit. He is very... I don´t know how to explain it. Robotic. E. Smoot and I spoke a lot about him, and he said that he´s worried about E. Rojas because he can´t see any light in his countenance. He told me, there´s no light in his eyes... He doesn´t teach through the Spirit. I´m scared for my Investigators. We are so close to exploding in Esquel with baptisms. I have to put ALL my faith in the Lord for this to happen. Your prayers will help a ton as well.
I´m here to be a missionary. I love missionary work, and I want more experiences like that with E. Smoot. Stud of the earth. Mom, you should encourage yourself, Dad, and Jared to write me on DearElder. Write me everything... I love hearing about your thoughts, worries, desires and dreams. I want to stay close to my family, no matter how far away I am from them. That is one thing I have learned... The importance of family. To every single person that is reading this letter, give your mom, your dad, your brothers and sisters the biggest hugs... Your family should mean EVERYTHING to you. I miss my family incredibly. I dream of the day where I will be able to hug my family, sit down and just talk with them... and I just see happiness. Do this for me, and for yourself. Your family is the single most important thing on this earth.
I love you guys. Ah, I love you guys. Pray for me, please. I need all the help I can get. The sooner I can learn the quickest, most efficient, effective way to do missionary work the better. E. Rojas is not that answer, so it will come from prayers and from the Spirit. Pray that I can be humble enough to receive that help.
Until next week.
E. Cuthbert
Thank you so much for that package, mom. I love you and Dad so much... I hate the fact I don´t have more time to write you both an email. If I did, I would write you both every single week. Love you guys. Dad, I love you.
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