Wes has not been really good at communicating with us lately. But here is a good one, and a lesson for all of us!
then for october we have R.! she is amazing! she told us that she saw us one day on our bikes as she was leaving her church. that was the last time she could go to that church because the person who gave her a ride couldnt do it anymore. and THEN later that day we knocked on her door! haha YEAH! i love hearing stuff like that! she has a date for oct 4th.
i had a really powerful learning experience that i had this week that answers your last question. we were talking with a recent convert that really is struggling in life. i had a very poor view of who she was as a person. and she always asked us to do just the most insignificant things. she called us this week and asked us to go fix her sons toy...and i told her that we were missionaries and alluded to the fact fixing toys is not what we do. well this was very offensive to this sister and a very negative situation ensued. that night i reflected upon everything that i had learned on the mission. i read pages upon pages of PMG, and prayed a lot! and then the words in PMG that said, "do everything you can to serve the people that you are around and strive to keep your temple covenants!" struck me very hard. i realized that i had become so caught up with baptizing every month and getting good numbers that i had forgotten to love and serve the people! Especially the members! so just like in enos, i had to wrestle with God over my sins and beg him to let this member feel forgivness for something that was 100% my fault! from this experience i have learned that there is no other better way to help others than to love them and serve them! Charity is the overrulling attribute of them all that if we develope then the rest will fall into place as well! so now i have committed to love every single person i meet and do the best i can to serve them! that is what will help our investigators progress is to feel of that love!
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