This week was a bit of a
flop...That happens sometimes. We had a ton of stuff cancel but we were
at least able to have a few good things happen. We had a super good
lesson with our investigator Sarah, who is dating one of the guys in the
ward. She's super ready to be baptized but she needs to get passed off
to a different ward before she can get baptized. We're going be having a
lesson with her at the Mission home this weekend because Sarah lives
like way close to it! It'll be sick. Her boyfriend Jake is the man! He
helped us teach a bunch of the lesson. Also another fun little fact,
Sarah plays water polo and yesterday her team won the Junior Olympics
qualifying tournament for the US, so her team is the #1 team in the
nation and will be representing the US. Sick huh?
We also received some great instruction from our
leaders this past week. It was a really good meeting. I'm super pumped
to try and implement some of the things that we learned from them. They
focused a lot on how we can accurately get information down to all of
the missionaries we're in charge of. It's not very easy sometimes. It's
sort of like playing telephone sometimes but it doesn't have to be that
way.
We've been working hard and talking to everyone we
see. Luckily people here seem to walk a lot. Not only do people walk a
lot but the normal people walk too! In my last area in Long Beach plenty
of people walked around but they were usually crazies... But here it's
better. One of the things that Elder M. Russel Ballard told us to do
while he was here was to have each companion contact 10 people each. So
20 per companionship. That's something Elder Renguul and I are really
trying to work on and it's been great so far! Whenever we put in all our
effort we have a promise to the best blessings the Lord has to offer. A
common misconception about obedience is that there is either obedience
or disobedience. That's not always true. Sometimes it is but not always.
Our level of obedience guarantees our level of blessings. Disobedience
does not cause God to turn his back on us and not bless us, He just
can't allow us to receive his most choice blessings because He cannot go
back on his work. "There is a law irrevocably decreed in heaven..."
(D&C 130:20) God cannot take back his laws and we cannot afford to
break his laws. When we do we "have no promise" (D&C 82:10) We need the Lord's promise. Let's make it so.
I love all of you great people. I appreciate your
love and support. As Elder Jones says, "Be happy." Have fun! Heavenly
Father gives us so much, use it!
Keep it Real,
Elder Sanderson
