Well the time has come... I am leaving Oklahoma...
I am going to Texas. We got the transfer call on Sunday and President is shipping me off to Wichita Falls Texas!
It should be fun, I am excited and my fingers are crossed that it is a bike area!
All of the members here are really concerned that I will turn into a longhorn... I guess whoever wins the championship will be my team!
My new companion will be Elder Karr...he has been out for 5 months and he just finished up getting trained.
From what I know it is going to be a partial spanish district! yeah! hopefully I will remember how to speak Spanish! bueno.
I am excited for the change! Purcell has been great and all but after 7 1/2 months time starts going too fast!
But they would switch our ward mission leader right when I leave! ehhh the new one is going to be great!
Our last ward mission leader was a little burnt out after going through 200 missionaries!
The ward is really getting missionary minded! Last week we had 9 members at lessons with investigators... that is a record for this area!
Our mission only records lessons taught with member presents! There is a different spirit when a member is in on a lesson.
It makes it look like we aren't just trying to sell something!
We had a great lesson with the Munday family (a family that we tracted into about 3 weeks ago) they haven't been able to go to church because she is going through the first trimester of pregnancy... I am sorry for all of you that, have and will suffer that, haha... but it has been really bad for her she hasn't been able to keep down any liquids or food! she has to get hooked up to an IV... but we taught them the Doctrine of Christ it was amazing... because 1st) The Spirit was there and 2nd) A Member was there!
We talked for 30 minutes after the lesson about real concerns that they have, not necessarily about the church but in life! They already believe the church is true. Brother Munday was abused when he was a kid and his step children(Sis Mundays kids) were abused by their father. There are a lot of deep scars in his mind. He started off stating that he could never forgive his parents... we then testified that we won't tell him what to do but Christ will! It was silent and the Spirit was there I am convinced that after 15 years he felt the need and desire to forgive his parents!
“The spirit must be freed from tethers so strong and feelings never put to rest, so that the lift of life may give buoyancy to the soul.
“The spirit must be freed from tethers so strong and feelings never put to rest, so that the lift of life may give buoyancy to the soul.
In many families, there are hurt feelings and a reluctance to forgive. It doesn’t really matter what the issue was. It cannot and should not be left to injure.
Blame keeps wounds open. Only forgiveness heals. George Herbert, an early 17th-century poet, wrote these lines:
"He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven, for everyone has need of forgiveness.’”
-- President Monson
buuut on with the questions you asked---
What taught you the most this week?........... We had an awesome leadership training this week President quoted
" Always teaching, sometimes with words"... "you are called for what you will become" was another good one!
Can you share an experience where you witnessed the love God has for one of His Children?... that is a hard question because in every choice that we make there is a a good or a bad... a choice that brings us closer or further from our Heavenly Father. But is is amazing to see not only in my life but in the life of our investigators and less actives how forgiving God is! Even after making the mistake 70 times God is still willing to forgive!
What are you most grateful for this week? I am most grateful for some awesome members here in Purcell. Just this morning I walked out of the shower and one of our members stopped by and said that he felt like giving us a box of doughnuts! Also the 9 member presents in one week! miracle.
What advice do you have for member missionaries?--Read PMG Pg1 your purpose and apply it to your life!
It is very clear that "every member a missionary" applies to every single person who has been baptized!
This is the foundation of missionary work with out it it is hard to be an effective missionary!
It makes me mad when members don't think that it is their responsibility to be 'missionary'.
It doesn't matter if you are 8 or 100, rich or poor, busy or lazy YOU need to be a missionary!
Matthew 22
37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
38 This is the first and great commandment.
39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
38 This is the first and great commandment.
39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
What is the greatest thing we can do for our God?--figure it out and do it
What is the greatest thing we can do for our neighbor?-- figure it out and do it
If we truly apply these 2 commands we will be great missionaries, striving to become better missionaries!…
What is the greatest thing we can do for our neighbor?-- figure it out and do it
If we truly apply these 2 commands we will be great missionaries, striving to become better missionaries!…
It is definitely different in Utah because we have one set of missionaries for a stake but if you have the chance to go out with the missionary's go!
GOOD JOB
Well already time to go! but stay classy! Eli and joel keep on being the hammers! Go do some Bengal jacks for me!
Well already time to go! but stay classy! Eli and joel keep on being the hammers! Go do some Bengal jacks for me!
bueno bueno
ELDER FINLINSON
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