Dear Family,
We had a week of torrential rain and we are still in hurricane season so there is a slight possibility of something coming our way. But when it is not raining, it has cooled down so we can do more street contacting. We had a phenomenal week full of miracles. We have been thinking of more ideas to find new investigators in our area, since tracting is less successful. So one idea was to draw the plan of salvation in public parks, so we went to a park on Wednesday and drew the plan out with questions and our number. There was a group of workers there taking their lunch break and we asked them to look at our drawing to see what they thought. ( With the idea in mind to start a religious conversation) They came over and started to ask questions about what everything meant. So we taught the plan of salvation to four new investigators!! I have pictures, but the camera got left at home, so rain-check until next week. We are also teaching a new family, Fernanda and Noe and their little boy. Wonderful and incredibly prepared. I will have to share more of their story next week when I have more time. We are also seeing wonderful success with our family history efforts. Yesterday we had speakers from the temple presidency encouraging members to prepare their family names for the temple and the temple trip the ward has this week. After church, even more members came up to us asking when we could come help them! Also, we are taking our recent convert family, the Pintos, to do baptisms in the temple this upcoming Saturday. So excited.
With the weeks of my mission dwindling rapidly, there is lots of reflection upon changes in myself and lessons learned. So I thought I will start including some of those insights and funny things.
One change that you all with notice quickly is the change in foods. I now eat lots of tomatoes, peppers, garlic, mushrooms, and almost everything that I avoided before my mission. And spicy food? Bring it on. As I have recently proven, I can eat a whole habanero pepper plain. The only things that have stayed on my least favorite food list are onions and pickles. A whole new horizon in foods just opened up : )
Also, I have learned a lot about stewardship on the mission. Almost every part of being a missionary pertains to stewardship. Our cars, apartments, and other resources are not ours, but rather are entrusted to us to carry out the work of the Lord. We are given stewardships over wards and areas in the name of our Savior to do as He would do if He was here. In the Church, stewardship is not limited to a temporal trust or responsibility. President Spencer W. Kimball taught: “We are stewards over our bodies, minds, families, and properties. … A faithful steward is one who exercises righteous dominion, cares for his own, and looks to the poor and needy." I've learned that being a faithful disciple in the gospel is about fulfilling our stewardships faithfully as we strive to become more like our Savior.
There is a phrase in Preach My Gospel that says "learning the gospel is a process of receiving revelation" and then this scripture, "Behold, great and marvelous are the works of the Lord. How unsearchable are the depths of the mysteries of him; and it is impossible that man should find out all his ways. And no man knoweth of his ways save it be revealed unto him; wherefore, brethren, despise not the revelations of God."
Thank you for all your prayers and support.
Love,
Hna Koerner
No comments:
Post a Comment