This week has also been pretty slow, but we have done a lot of preparation for these upcoming weeks. So, we are hopeful and pretty confident that we will be able to find some people to teach, after all of our finding projects have been rolled out.
So we are in charge of 4 wards and so we switch off focusing on a different ward every week. We have lots of lessons with the members that are set up by us and also by the ward mission leaders. We have been focusing on trying to help the members reach out to their neighbors and get to know their neighbors better. The thing that we have come to realize is with the absence of teaching non members, we have found that we can make a huge impact on the members and so they have become our primary focus. We also had a crazy lesson that reminded me of the Mexico days. It was with an old couple of the evangelist faith and it lasted an hour and a half.
Besides that, we had some great member lessons. One in particular, there was a family with a 16 year old boy and he was having some problems. When the time came, I felt inspired to bring up patriarchal blessings and the dad was very thankful that we did so. He later told us that that was exactly what his son needed to hear.
With some of our extra time we have been working on filling in our online areas book with all dots and names for all the houses. We have contacted the bishops and got a hold of their ward maps. We are waiting for the letters and reference list to be sent out at the stake and ward members. Each bishop is choosing how to distribute the letters in the way that he thinks will be most effective so we will see what works the best here pretty soon. We worked at the bishop storehouse again
We had lots of member lessons and we got to talk to lots of priests since the bishops have asked to talk to them and see how they are doing.
We went to Costco and this old man started following us around. Then when we got to the checkout he was like "Come here you guys I'm paying for all of it" We insisted that he didn't because that is what we are supposed to say haha but he was stalking us so we knew we werent going to win this one. So he paid for all 70 dollars of our groceries from there.. Then we went to Walmart and got the rest of our groceries. When we were done, this other guy came over to my companion and I and asked who we were having dinner with tonight? We told him we weren't allowed to eat with the members and then he just gave us a 20 dollar so that we could buy dinner! So, we went to Mcdonalds and as you will see I got a lot of food with 5 dollars. We have been very blessed today and made sure to give thanks for all of it.
This week I read a scripture about missionary work that I had never before really noticed. After all the examples of the missionary work that Alma and the sons of Mosiah had, this is the overall message.
ALMA CHAPTER 28:14
And thus we see the great call of adiligence of men to labor in the vineyards of the Lord; and thus we see the great reason of sorrow, and also of rejoicing—sorrow because of death and destruction among men, and joy because of the blight of Christ unto life.
This scripture is very fitting to the work that we do here. As missionaries, we work diligently in the vineyard of the Lord as a full time job. We get to sorrow for those that choose not to accept or listen to the message of restoration and hope that we have to offer. And we get to rejoice when we find those that have had their hearts prepared to receive the gospel of Jesus Christ in its fullness. And the last part talks about the light of Christ unto Life. As we know, Christ is the crucial and cornerstone piece to the plan of salvation and for this church- His church. Without Him, and his willingness to atone for all of us, the eternal law of justice would not have been satisfied and we would have no way to return again to our heavenly father. But because of him, we now have the ability to return and be exalted under the conditions of repentance and a change of our hearts.
My hope is that we can all get on, or continue down the path that leads to a real and personal conversion to our Savior Jesus Christ. Along the way, invite those around you, your friends, neighbors, family, strangers to join you on this marvellous journey.
Have a great week everybody and the challenge this week is to simply reach out to someone you see or think that is in need of a friend.
The pictures are of the service that we did last week, my house with some weights, some food and some more food and some more.
Love, Elder Talbot
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