Well well well, its monday agian. This week was amazing, just like every week on the mission.
To start off we had a really wierd thursday morning. We went
straight to he church to meet an investigator and we found two hobos
sleeping at the church. We woke them up and tried to help them, they
were heavily under the influence and couldnt believe we spoke khmer it
was funny. 2 minutes later a lizard jumped off a shrub and bit my
companion on the arm. It was awesome.
So we had some really good lessons this week and we are seeing some
investigators really starting to progress. Sophiap and Tidaa are doing
great, they are just way busy but they came to sunday school and loved
it. It was super cool to see them get invlolved and stop being shy.
Rithia is in france for the next 10 days wich is a bummer, but we gave
him some chapters to read from the BOM and he got really excited. My
comp and I have been really trying to help this Less Active named Cone.
Hes hilarious, he showed up with a white shirt and tye and passed the
sacrament. It was awesome, and that other old lady that we found a
couple weeks ago gave a talk during sacrament meeting. It was cool
seeing people make changes and then help the branch. Good stuff right
there.
These past weeks and actually my whole mission I've studied a lot
about how to listen better to the Spirit. i just want to get better at
it. I heard a way good quote from my main man Ezra Taft Benson he said
"When you do good, you feel good, and that is the Holy Ghost Speaking to
you." Super simple. As a kid i always read scriptures and heard stories
of a "burning in your bosom" and how that is the way you know if the
church is true or not. For me it doesnt work like that, it comes by
living it. As i live it, i love it, and I feel it which makes me want to
share it. Oaks put it in a great way, "Surely the work 'burning' in
this scripture signifies a feeling of comfort and serenity. This is the
witness many receive. THis is the way revelation works... I have never
had a burning (caloric heat) in the bosom." Packer said "The Holy Ghost
communicates with the Spirit through the mindmore than through the
physcal senses, Personal revalation comes to the mind as thoughts and to
the heart as feelings." The Holy Ghost is a voice we feel not hear.
I love this mission. Not going to lie, there are some tough days,
like days that just are terrible.
Ha this area is a little bit tough. Its just not easy, every day is like a
mountian i have to climb, and some days when i wake up and its 5:30 in
the morning and im dead tired, im not going to lie i have no desire to
do anything ha, but thats where i have to make the descion if my mission
is about me or others. On the mission you get to make lots of
decisions. you talk to yourself a lot, ive gotten to know myself better
haha. Its been fun, im really excited for the next year. thank you so
much for the chocolate!! it was greatly needed. You da best "Come what may and love it." Its the
only way to have a good time on your mission.
live long and prosper Love, Elder Smith
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