This week's shout out goes
out to Sister Dillon for this conversation
Her: I saw you girls
on bike the other day!
Us : ...really??
(Shoot we probably flashed her)
Her: Yeah! Why were
you on bike!
Us: The Elders needed
our car
Her: They needed it?
Us: Um yeah. Why
didn't you honk at us and say hi??
Her: I couldn't
believe my eyes!
I don't even know what
we did this week... obviously missionary work but I'm not even sure what to
highlight. This was my official year mark, and as of right now, I have less
than 6 months until I'm home! I wasn't really counting until everyone else
started counting and now time is slowing down. It's a weird thing.
We have seriously met
the nicest people ever here. We were helping out with a funeral, and it never
ceases to amaze me how many people are willing to pitch in and help. We were
asked to house sit because apparently people have been robbed as they leave to
go to their loved one's funeral. How awful is that? I have a bone to pick with
those people. But this man was an artist. We were at his home, I'll attach a
picture.
I don't know how many
people have yelled at us for not going over to their house to eat when we don't
have dinner. We'll be sitting there like "Yeah we didn't have dinner the
other night, so we went to McDonalds" and suddenly it's like we've burned
down the house. It's nice how much they care for us haha but actually I am
totally sick of chicken nuggets and french fries as of right now.
Wednesday we got to
see Clayton Christenson, who wrote, "The Power of Everyday
Missionaries." It's a great book, from what I've heard. Everyone who went
felt super uplifted and enjoyed it a lot! He talked about five key things to
remember as we try to share the gospel:
1. It is not our place
to judge.
2. I succeed when I
invite, not when they accept
3. These are not
godless people, they are just people who have rejected falsehood
4. People need to be
needed
5. Teach them how to
prayerfully and privately read the scriptures
Despite the fact that
no one in our ward went to this fireside, me and Sister Lutui felt it necessary
to share with everyone. And it's been a great opportunity because everyone
loves it. It makes missionary work less scary and totally doable. This ward has
a desire, so we are ready to roll :)
This week's thought is
about patience and charity. I'm not going to lie, I totally thought I had it
down. The Lord knew otherwise. There's an Elder in this area that's
been...trying... And we kind of lost it with him. He wasn't following the
spirit, he wasn't helping the work, and we were not ok with it. So we asked the
Lord what to do. We ended up sitting him down and just telling him what we felt
was wrong. The interesting thing was, when we did it, there was no feeling of
impatience or hatred there. It was odd because literally 24 hours ago we
probably might have killed him. That sure is an important life lesson, let me
tell you.
1. The Lord loves
everyone, even if you are super annoying
2. The Lord doesn't
expect you to like everyone, but you have to love them all because they are
children of God
3. In times of need,
the Lord will help you if you recognize what you need to do, even if you only
do it out of responsibility.
Take care! Love you
all!
Sister Kwan
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