Small and Simple Things

This week was busy busy busy. Yikes. It was a running week for sure! We not only had Elder Cook, Elder Neilson and Bishop Causse come to our mission to teach and train us we also had the opportunity to go proselyting with Brother Lee Donaldson who is a true master teacher. It was incredible. This was definitely one of the highlight weeks of my mission.

Spiritual: I learned a lot this week. It was an amazing experience to have the instruction of a member of the quarm of the 12. What an incredible calling. It’s been a week of fun interactions with some neat people. On Monday we had dinner with the former General Primary President, We then had the opportunity on Tuesday to go out with Brother Lee Donaldson who works in the missionary department in the proselyting division. Wow. We learned a ton. On Saturday we heard from Elder Cook, Elder Neilson, and Bishop Causee and our area authority Elder Robert Packer. Wow. It was a really amazing experience. I have had a great week. The biggest thing that I learned from all of these people was that the gospel is so simple. We were taught by Brother Donaldson how to not only teach simply but that this gospel is designed so that even children can understand. He at one point in the instruction held up Preach my Gospel and said that "This is what you have to know." He then held up a pamphlet and said "This is what they have to know." We don't need to have a perfect knowledge of things right now. We need to have faith. Heavenly Father has put us here without a perfect knowledge because he wants us to learn the simple plain things to be able to have more faith in Him. These people that we got to meet this week did not tell us how they saw an angel and then it all made sense for them. They taught us how they read the scriptures and it all came together for them. I know as well that it’s through the small acts of daily obedience that we come to find out that the Church and the Gospel of Jesus Christ is true and is the course that we need to follow on this life. I know this. In the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

 Funny: They still get a little punchy at the end of numbers night.

Where I am at: Things are good here. We spent some time this past week putting together a plan for the ward. It’s going to be a good year. We are going to find so many people. I am so excited for the things coming up. There are a lot of big things coming up for the mission. We are changing a ton of things around for key indicators etc. I have loved this area an am looking forward to really getting things going. I am starting more and more to fall in love with the area and the members here. We have a plan and things are really going to start happening. One of the things that I want to leave you with is a thought by Elder Bednar. He effectually said that we as members of the church need to close the gap between what we know and what we do. We know we should ... but what we do is ... Let’s work to close this gap. I love you all!