May 27, 2013
Hello!
This week was a pretty good week. We had a zone
conference on Wednesday, district conference (stake conference) on Sunday.
It was good, but it cost a lot of money for traveling...
Zone conference (this is just for the missionaries) was
good, we talked a lot about things to help us as people, mostly after
mission, but I can still apply some of the things now as a missionary. A
lot of things concerning money, we receive $140 USD for subsistence each
month. In Liberia, this is more than enough money to get by, but unfortunately
a lot of missionaries aren’t living within their means. We have a budget,
we have to keep to it. It’s not our money, it’s the Lords and we should
not abuse the Lords money.
We also talked about transforming ourselves. This
means to truly repent. Truly repenting doesn’t mean just asking for
forgiveness from God, it’s recognizing the sin, stopping the sin,
confessing the sin to God and to the person affected and/or to priesthood
leaders, making a restitution, keeping the commandments, and
then acknowledging the Savior’s power of forgiveness. This is true repentance. Everyone must
go through this process. Once we do this we are changed.
District conference (for all the members of the church in
that area) was good. We had between 850 and 900 people there, one
side (half?) of all the members in Liberia. We had to sit in the back
where the speakers weren’t working, so i couldn’t hear much. We had about 7 nonmembers there. One
woman (29 years old) who has been struggling to come to church, struggling with
some of the commitments we've extending, surprisingly showed
up. She sat in the back as well so I don’t know if she heard
anything, but I saw her praying and reading the Book of Mormon. It brought a huge smile to my face. I
can see the change in her. She is a wonderful lady. It’s always
interesting to visit her.
We got transfer news after the district conference. As
of right now Elder Marondera and I will be staying the same for the next
transfer which starts on the 10th of June. It’s only going to be 4 weeks
instead of 6. (The Sierra Leone Freetown mission will be split the first
of July between the two countries and the new Liberia Monrovia mission will be
formed, I’m sure this is affecting the transfer period)
Over all the week was good. We taught more lessons
than the past couple weeks, but still not as many as we wanted, but each week
we are getting closer to our goals. Busy weeks are good weeks.
I love you all and miss you.
Elder Park
The White African
T.I.A.
I found some pictures on the Sierra Leone Blog and copied them here:
Paynesville Zone and Sinkor Zone with Elder and Sister Krumm
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