Hey all,
Good week, let´s start with a few details, then a couple questions and to finish the title´s implicated message.
This
has been another good week, we´re working on finding people, I´m just
not wanting to get outside my comfort zone and I´m realizing that I need
to do that more to find people. But we´ve got some investigators.
Our
sector is needing more people found to teach and more citas with those
found. We´re trying, and slowly but surely getting better.
Our
companionship is doing great, we put down on paper some goals to do
together and we´re working on doing them so that we´re more united and
have the Spirit more to guide us.
My spirits
are good, I´m a lot happier realizing that I´m being better than I´ve
been in the past few months, I´m feeling the Spirit more and interacting
better with people.
What adventures have you had lately?
I
made a 4 player chess board and had an interesting match with us 4 in
the pension, we bought umbrellas and Elder Lozano´s broke in less than 8
hours of having it and not using it, we´re going to have a grand p-day
this Thursday, and not much else.
What lives have you impacted?
I´ve
been being more of an impact in my companion´s life from doing more to
help the both of us. Also, we played soccer with the young men Saturday
night after helping them clean the church and I think that we helped
impact them for good, especially for my team, because I can actually
play soccer decently and made 2-3 goals. :D
What did you learn from last week?
That
we need to seek the Spirit to tell people hard things. And that we can
reconcile ourselves to others. As well as exercise is amazing and gives
you energy. A few more things, but that´s the general.
Okay, so reconciliations:
First
off, we told our pension that we would be changing breakfast and lunch
from her too to others, trying to give her a heads up so that it´s not a
huge event when it happens (though it be at the end of the change). And
she took it badly, I think it´s because we didn´t really try and see how
to tell her in the best way. We´ve been getting back to normal terms
the past few days.
Secondly, some sisters in my
district have been teaching people outside of their sector, RMs would
understand better, but that´s a no-no, you pass the reference so you can
focus on those whom the Lord has for you in your sector. Anywho, I
cornered them, err, asked to meet with them after a meeting we´d been in
and they said okay. - We said a prayer and I expressed what I was
seeing and that I thought it would be best for them to give the
reference to the missionaries whose sector it is. They responded with a
lot of things, but mostly a love for the people they´re teaching and so
they want to make sure the other missionaries actually will go and teach
the person. So we put a plan down to where they would go with the other
missionaries to teach them so that it goes well. In total it went well
and the Spirit was there to guide the meeting.
Thirdly,
there´s a really, really annoying bishop in the other ward that is
insisting that I do a baptismal interview for the sisters in my district
so that an 8 year old whose parents are members can get baptized. Yet
again, like the first case it´s a thing of order in God´s church. The
thing that happened here is that I´ve not talked to this bishop and the
zone leaders told me to tell the sisters to have him call them if he
mentioned it again. Which is better than the option I initially had, to
come in guns blazing and put him down. (guns being Preach my Gospel and
pictures of the red handbook, blazing meaning burning him so hard, so,
so hard.) I realized later that it´s even better that I didn't do that
because that´s not with the Spirit and it´s not what Christ would do. So
that´s good for now. And we´re going to see what happens. Sometimes
people are just stupid and so you look for the shortest answer possible,
which hardly ever involves love, so I´m growing and working on being
better in that.
And finally, I never really
appreciated Elder Hales´ conference talks because he´s always been an
old man to me, so today when I read the insert to the November Liahona I
got to know the man and realize just how great of a person he was and
that I never appreciated that. So, avoid putting labels on a person to
avoid them, rather, do yourself and them a favor and go talk to them,
sometimes people are difficult in this way or the other, but as we love
more (which I´m working on) we will be blessed and be able to bless
others.
Take care and love you all!
Hurrah for Israel!
~Elder Fincher
~Elder Fincher
