Every morning I wake up with 2 Spanish Zone leaders on one side and over on the other side is a fresh new greenie called Elder LaBar.
It's pretty good.
As I take the child out contacting and teaching it's amazing to see how he approaches people and what he ends up saying. I am fully aware he's trying his best and that he's brand new- but it's still pretty….different. The amazing thing is- it works. And it's because the spirit is with us.
Turns out the principles and practice and theory and concepts behind “missionary-work” aren't as important as I thought.
Knowing good scriptures to share and stories from the Bible and church history aren't as important as I thought
Knowing how to ”down-tone,” make eye-contact, and use body languages aren’t as important as I thought.
Knowing the language and being able to speak with eloquence aren't as important as I thought either.
Turns out it's all about having the spirit with you in such abundance that those around you can experience the spirit as you speak is way way important.
Of course plenty of people still cuss at us and slam and lock their doors and tell us how dumb we are and to “not drink the kool-aid”
But I don't care at all. It doesn't offend me. It makes me sad that they are so confused and rude- but nothing anybody does will ever shake me from doing what I know is right.
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Before picking up Elder LaBar I was able to serve 1 day with Elder Bishop. He doesn't like hugs which is too bad cause I really loved serving with him a ton. We had so much fun! Learned some tagalog from him and talked about our missions. We're both going home super soon.
Then we picked up our trainees. Craziness. The English elders were an Elder Singh and Elder LaBar. Everybody with any common sense was sure I would get Elder Singh as his parents are hindi-speaking indians. Makes a lot of sense- so it also makes sense why i was suprised and a little disappointed when I didn't receive Elder Singh.
I figured it out a few nights ago tho
If i got Elder Singh we would have had +1 hindi elders
But because I got Elder LaBar now he will learn hindi. Elder Singh was already set on learning Hindi as soon as I introduced myself.
So now we get +2 hindi elders instead.
I've been in some strange mind places recently. I still feel out of place In this area after being in Fremont for a year and a half. It's weird being a senior comp/TRAINER In an area I don't even know how to get to the church or our apartment in. Every day going home becomes more and more real- which is super weird. I feel stressed a lot and I'm not able to find out why so then I just kinda feel frustration inside. I want to do hindi work. I want to do ASL work. Instead I'm trying to find interested people In a english area- instead I find not interested people lol.
It's not actually THAT bad lol. We invited 3 people to be baptized this week. 2 said yes. 1. Was an Indian I had just met and he said he'd think about it.
I'm trying to be a good example for Elder LaBar luckily that means I pretty much stay the same.
Sorry. That's all I got this week. I'll try and be feeling better when I write next week lol.
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