Hello :)
We had a wonderful week this week. Well, transfer meeting is on November 21st, the day before thanksgiving? ya! So this last weekend was trainer calls. Guess who got called to train? Elder Weaver! Oh ya! This is our last week of the training program and he gets called to train right at the get go! He is a fantastic Elder and he will do a great job! So yes, that means I will be getting transferred on November 21st. You should be fine mailing the package btw! It will get to me by then.
Wow, I really have loved Ocala! The Bishop here is incredible, and everyone else is just as amazing! We went out with our Bishop last night, and our Bishop is just super encouraging and uplifting. He really made me feel good about my time here in Ocala. Bishop always tells the missionary leaving what there gift is. haha. He told Elder Bennion his gift was music. He told me that my gift, was when I walk in the room, there is a special powerful spirit, and just by walking in the room I draw attention. So I thought that was pretty neat. It definitely made me feel good. He said it helps that I am tall : ) Elder Weaver and I really do have a good relationship with the Bishop, we joke around with him a lot.
Yesterday in church, they had two youth speakers speak who gave extremely short talks. Bishop was the only other speaker and he had about 30 minutes to speak. Right before he got up to speak, I had to leave (I got really sick this last weekend and my throat was killing me in Sacrament so I had to duck out just for a little bit.). After I left, Bishop announced that he would have me bear my testimony after his talk. I came back into the chapel and he stopped talking right in the middle of his talk and let me know, as I was walking to my seat, that I would be talking after him. He thought it would be funny to scare me a little bit. So he said I will take about another 5 minutes and I will have you come up. Well, there was still 25 minutes left in sacrament meeting. So I thought, oh boy, I better prepare a talk quick. So I started thinking of a bunch of things I could talk about, scriptures I could share. Well, he was just messing with me. He gave me 5 minutes to bear my testimony.
I first started off by sharing Ether 12:27. I let them know that I have weaknesses and that I am only 20 years old. I told them I do my best to do the Lord's will. I then went to Doctrine and Covenants 84:88 where Christ promises that He will go before us and prepare the hearts of the children of men to receive the gospel. He promises that He will be on our right hands and on our left and that He will go before our face and lift us up. Bishop has been putting a huge emphasis on getting the young men out on missions. He had asked us to help him do that by setting an example and encouraging the young men. I basically testified to all the young men and young women that none of us are qualified to do the Lord's work. That He qualifies us, and strengthens our weaknesses so that we can do His work. I testified that Heavenly Father would prepare everything for them. I shared an experience where Elder Weaver and I were tracting at night. It gets really dark here at 6 and no one will listen to us after it gets dark. They will yell at us and tell us to go home and sleep :) So, we were discouraged (which we shouldn't be). Heavenly Father provided a tender mercy. We knocked on a certain door and the lady let us right in and we taught the Restoration to her and her husband. They are currently searching and they told us that and we have a return appointment wednesday. We invited them to church but they already had a commitment. Heavenly Father prepares the hearts, missionaries only harvest the work that is already done.
I first started off by sharing Ether 12:27. I let them know that I have weaknesses and that I am only 20 years old. I told them I do my best to do the Lord's will. I then went to Doctrine and Covenants 84:88 where Christ promises that He will go before us and prepare the hearts of the children of men to receive the gospel. He promises that He will be on our right hands and on our left and that He will go before our face and lift us up. Bishop has been putting a huge emphasis on getting the young men out on missions. He had asked us to help him do that by setting an example and encouraging the young men. I basically testified to all the young men and young women that none of us are qualified to do the Lord's work. That He qualifies us, and strengthens our weaknesses so that we can do His work. I testified that Heavenly Father would prepare everything for them. I shared an experience where Elder Weaver and I were tracting at night. It gets really dark here at 6 and no one will listen to us after it gets dark. They will yell at us and tell us to go home and sleep :) So, we were discouraged (which we shouldn't be). Heavenly Father provided a tender mercy. We knocked on a certain door and the lady let us right in and we taught the Restoration to her and her husband. They are currently searching and they told us that and we have a return appointment wednesday. We invited them to church but they already had a commitment. Heavenly Father prepares the hearts, missionaries only harvest the work that is already done.
I got really sick this weekend. I started to feel a sore throat coming on Thursday. Then sure enough on Friday morning I had a really sore throat. Stupid me decided that he still wanted to play basketball as a morning workout with the missionaries. That made it worse. Then we had weekly planning in the morning. We tried to go out and work, but I couldn't do it and we had to go back. I felt bad. Later that night I ended up with a 102 degree tempature :P. Bluh! But I woke up okay the next morning and I still have a little bit of a sore throat.
Everything is going great as normal! Bowling was lots of fun :) I did horrible haha. As normal!
Well I better get running. I love you all! Hope you have a wonderful week. Next week pday will be on Tuesday because it is transfer week!
Bye!
Love
Elder Wise
No comments:
Post a Comment