Another
splendid week out here in Wyoming! it got warm for like two days and it was soo
nice!! itll get cold again next week though haha.
So this week
Chitra was going to bring a friend to church and get baptized. but he got sick,
missed church, so has to get baptized a week later! i despise when things like
that happen, but that is ok. sarashati came to church again this week. she is
soo awesome. we are about to have the busiest week ever. we have been setting
appointments with everyone and calling former investigators and things and it
should be a great week.
this past week
was the annual ward chili and pie cook off. it was great! there were so many
people there and it was a really good time! the missionaries get to judge the
pie eating contest too, so that is really cool! haha we had a great time eating
a lot of pie.
dont have a ton
of time, we have to prepare to help with the half-mission training on tuesday,
but one quick miracle from the week. the bishop’s daughter’s friend, Jontay,
who had been coming to church and things, hadnt been able to meet with us
because he is very busy with being the lead role in his high school’s musical.
He is awesome and was progressing so well, so it has been frustrating not to be
able to meet with him and things. but this past sunday he came to church. and
the lesson in gospel principles was about the restoration. it was awesome.
everyone's comments were great and it was very clear. we hadnt had a chance to
teach Jontay the restoration lesson yet because we couldnt meet with him, so it
was his first time hearing it. afterward in Elder's Quorum, i asked him if he
had any questions about what we just talked about, and he said "no, it all
came together for me" which it did, the lesson came full circle to what he
had had questions about before. he said, "it all made perfect sense. and
now i know its all true." what?? soo sweet!! we will be meeting with him
tomorrow after school and helping him continue to progress. that was such a
great experience!
one quick
thought. wouldnt it be great if we could control how we feel all the time? the thing is,
we can. the secret lies in our thoughts. do you feel cruddy? what are you
thinking about? i guarantee it isn't uplifting. If in our minds we constantly
rehash the past, doubt ourselves, and think negative thoughts, then our future
will become hopeless to us. isnt that so interesting? what you think is
ultimately what you become. often times our thoughts are determined by things
that happen to us. if we allow our circumstances to determine our thoughts, we
are being acted upon and not acting. if something negative happens to us, it is
our choice to change our thoughts, thereby changing our feelings and eventually
our actions that stem from that initial negative event. when in doubt, think of
the Savior. think of His teachings. these thoughts will always bring the Spirit
of God with them. we cannot always force ourselves to
have faith, but we can calmly resist the tendency to doubt. patience is the
evidence of faith, just as impatience is the evidence of doubt. clear thinking
and positivity are gifts you cannot give yourself. they come as a gift from God
by remembering to make allowances for those around us (ourselves included).
work on this! it takes effort! it is not easy but it is worth it!
love you all,
elder green
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