SNOW!
Well we got our first snow of the season! It wasn't anything to get too excited about though--it was just a small dusting!
I am wearing my ski tie today though! It was great to see that we may have a chance of a white Christmas.
We have some great news, we received transfer doctrine last night and..... the trinity is staying together!
I have been blessed to have great companions! especially during Christmas time! We are pretty excited about it!
This next transfer will go all the way to January! No one is really moving in the mission. I guess president wants to keep everyone together!
SO this week Monica got baptized! It was great. It was crazy though.
Bishop was the one going to baptize her and he thought it started at 10:30, when it actually was going to start at 10...hijole!
It was 10:05 and Bishop still wasn't there. We called him up and luckily he was able to make it around 10:20 ish.
We were able to delay it by watching Mormon Messages!
But the service went great after that! Everyone really felt the spirit. Especially Monica. When she came up out of the water she said she was so happy!
It is has been amazing to see the change in her these past few months.
She now has the vision to go to the temple and partake of all of the blessing that come from that!
We found Monica by doing less active work.
Her husband was a less active member and in the attempts to get him back to church we were able to bring his wife along.
In most of their prayers to close our lessons they talk about being sealed in the temple. I had the opportunity to confirm her on Sunday in sacrament meeting. It was great!
Also yesterday we finally got a ward mission leader! His name is Brother Hanson and he is a news anchor here in town. It is going to be nice to have one again!
The ward is getting already for the turkey bowl! Hopefully it will be a nice day.
I have really been pondering on what needs to be done in this ward and I recalled the successful missionary section in PMG---
You can know you have been a successful missionary when you:
• Feel the Spirit testify to people through you.
• Love people and desire their salvation.
• Obey with exactness.
• Live so that you can receive and know how to follow the Spirit, who will show you where to go, what to do, and what to say.
• Develop Christlike attributes.
• Work effectively every day, do your very best to bring souls to Christ, and seek earnestly to learn and improve.
• Help build up the Church (the ward) wherever you are assigned to work.
• Warn people of the consequences of sin. Invite them to make and keep commitments.
• Teach and serve other missionaries.
• Go about doing good and serving people at every opportunity, whether or not they accept your message.
Now this isn't just for us full time missionaries. If you are a part of this church you are expected to be a missionary.
This has been something that I have been pondering a lot lately.
I am going to go through these points and find the thing that I am struggling with the most.
The desire of my heart is to be a successful missionary( thankfully PMG is very clear on what the means)
Well I hope y'all have a great week I love ya!
ELDER FINLINSON
Monica's Baptism- Elder Rodriguez, Elder Finlinson, Monica's Husband, Monica, Elder Barrett
The Very Happy Trio-Elder Rodriguez, Elder Barrett, Elder Finlinson
Elder Finlinson in front of Wichita Falls
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