June 3, 2013
This week was so fast!!!!!!
But to start, I missed another family member’s birthday,
Love you Katie!!
Since my companion is also our district leader, once every
transfer he has to go on exchanges with the zone leaders. So I go to
spend 2 days with Elder Kouao from Ivory Coast. It turns out that he is
my mission “grandfather.” (he trained my trainer who is my “father”). This guy is crazy! Let’s just say, before he met with the
missionaries, he had a really good plan for becoming president... but he
awesome. He had a lot of cool
stories. He served 9 months in my last area, so we talked a lot about the
people there. A lot of the people he was able to baptize are still
active, to have people stay active here is hard, sometimes they become converted
to the missionary and then when he leaves, we don’t see them anymore...
For some reason no matter where you go in the world, rumors
of the church start flying! There are many flying about us missionaries in
Thinker Village (4 of us). They aren’t true. It’s probably
happening because we've had a lot of success recently. the adversary is
working hard against us. The rumors are starting, probably do to our
success, because yesterday (Sunday) we had 15 nonmembers come to church.
Some even said that they weren’t going to be able to go, but they came
anyways. It was a good Sunday, plenty people at service. We had a
lady get interviewed for baptism on Saturday, got food from the branch
president. It was a good day.
We teach people that our Heavenly Father answers their
prayers. He has truly answered mine recently. The past couple weeks
we have been struggling to find people to teach, and when we go to teach them
they wouldn’t be there. So, as Alma states to his son in Alma 38:5, trust
Heavenly Father and He will help you overcome your afflictions and
trials, that’s what I did. I went to my knees and prayed like I
never had before on mission. The first 3 months it was easy to teach,
easy to have people get baptized. But this past month has been a
struggle. So I prayed to know what we could do better, why we weren’t
having success. The next thing I thought of was to study better and plan
better, and that’s what we did. We started to have better planning
sessions at the end of the day, better companion studies in the morning and
now, it’s paying off. We aren’t
getting bounced, we're finding people left and right. We have a lot of people come to
church. Like I said, this week has
flown by. A busy and tired missionary is a happy one, especially when he
doesn’t know where the day went or how he is going to see so many people in one
day.
Busy missionary = Happy missionary.
This week was good! This
week was fast!
Love you all miss you all.
Elder Park
The White African
T.I.A
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