Sept 30

What a week!

Phew! This week was busy. Between a couple trips to Montréal for meetings (and to get our car fixed), a service project or two in the ward, companion exchanges, and the REST of the insanity of every day missionary life, I think I can say it honestly.

I'm pooped.

But it's a good kind of pooped. :)

I learned a good lesson this week, a lesson that Dad tried to teach me once actually! I remember, a year or two before I came out here, when Dad was out of job one winter, he would shovel snow. For everyone. All over the neighbourhood. I'd leave for school in the morning, and he'd be shoveling, and if it snowed during the day he'd be at it again when I came back. I remember being really proud that my Dad wasn't a couch potatoe, or depressed about not being able to find work, but that he was out helping people and being productive, so I asked him why he did it. What he told me then was 'son, there are some things in life you just can't control, and it doesn't do any good to sit around and brood about them. All we can do is do our best to help someone else's day go better, and leave the rest to God.' 

Words of Wisdom from the mouth of a.... well, not a babe, but still! That's the lesson the Lord repeated to me this week. My companion and I were a little frustrated this Thursday as we were planning for the week. We just hadn't had the TIME between everything we'd been trying to do to see everyone we needed to see. Things kept coming up, Somebody in the district or the ward needed help, our leaders called and asked us to do something, we just felt like a lot of things were getting in the way of our responsability to, you know, do missionary work! We just felt like we had too many demands on our time, and we couldn't get everything done that we needed too. So, Sunday as we walked in to Church, God told us not to worry about it. We had two people three non-members come to church this week that we didn't know. One of them was invited by a member of a different church and came to the wrong place, the other two were invited by members of our church, from different wards. It was nuts.

As we were running around trying to meet and greet the newcomers, while still keeping track of OUR investigators that had come, I could feel the voice of the Lord tell me 'Just do the best you can, and take care of the people around you. I'll make sure the work continues'.

So. That was my aha moment of the week. :) Let's all do our best this week just to do what we can, 'then may we stand still, with the utmost assurance to see the salvation of God, and to see his arm revealed.' Doctrine and Covenants 123:17 (I think)

I love you all! Have a good week!

 

Love, 

Elder Christensen