Ok, so this week has been really slow, eventful, exhausting, and FUN, because it is the missionary life style....thing after thing after thing after thing, and then one specific thing happens and it makes everything worth it.
So we this week met with almost every one of our 13 investigators, but the ones we didn't meet with we had appointments, and we showed up and they were not there, and or we get a message from them that we don't see and we planned some hardcore amazing lessons, but we didn't get to teach them....
Work has been tough lately since the sisters are gone from our area, and it makes me slightly anxious because there is so much to do, so much to teach, and not enough time to do it....but I'm figuring it out with my companion, who rocks, and so its all fun and games...minus the games so just focus on the fun...
Something new is that we have exchanges tonight, and I'm staying here, and my zone leaders are coming to work with me and my companion, but I really have to rely on my own language skills for the next day, because the zone leaders don't know Spanish
Also, none of our investigators came to church, so all of our hard work this week didn't quite seem to pay off in the way we expected, especially when we have to drop 1 date for maria martinez, and then maybe one for stefani velez....
Nothing much to add, other than the fact that my Spanish book of Mormon, from the MTC, broke, and right now its getting rebound by brother Baird in my last area, which is nice...but I miss it...it makes me sad...but I am reading Jesus el Cristo, and also everything else....and so its great.
I don't really have anything super corny to talk about, but one thing that I have been studying lately is the atonement, and i have come to realize that the atonement isn't just giving us power over death and power over our mistakes in this life, it is giving us the power to purify our hearts and be perfected in Christ and be true disciples of him. Moroni says" "Yea, come unto Christ and be Perfected in him..." the atonement is exactly this. The perfection of us in Christ. as we turn our hearts towards him, and move our lives to be in harmony with his teachings, and to be in harmony with Our Heavenly Fathers plan for us, we will be purified. think of the refiner fire....in order for him to make pure silver from the ore, he has a long process of purification, that doesn't end until you know when you have been perfected in Christ. we receive strength from this gift of our Savior, if we truly let it be used in our lives to help others in theirs. as we come unto Christ and do as Christ did, we understand the power that comes from it. We become as Christ is, and being as Christ is , we have the power to do all things required of him and of our Father in Heaven.
A story that I read this week really touched my heart, and it really makes me desire to be better in every moment of my life
More than thirty years ago about fifteen LDS soldiers crowded into a frontline bunker in Korea to hold a Sunday service. They used their canteen cups and C-ration crackers to bless and partake of the sacrament. Then they held a testimony meeting. One young man introduced himself simply as Sergeant Stewart from Idaho. He was a short, small man about 5 feet 5 inches tall and weighing about 150 pounds. His great ambition had been to become a good athlete, but coaches considered him too small for most team sports. So he had concentrated on individual competition and had gained some success as a wrestler and a distance runner. Sergeant Stewart related to his fourteen battle-weary brethren an experience he had just had with his company commander, a giant of a man named Lieutenant Jackson who was 6 feet 7 inches tall and weighed 245 pounds; an outstanding college athlete. The sergeant spoke of him in glowing terms as a tremendous officer and a Christian gentleman, inspiring those who were fortunate enough to serve under his command.
Shortly before the Church service in which they now found themselves, Sergeant Stewart had been assigned to a patrol under the direction of Lieutenant Jackson. As they moved down near the base of a hill they held, they were ambushed by enemy fire. The lieutenant out in front was
riddled . . . by automatic small-arms fire. As he fell he managed to drag himself to the shelter of a nearby rock . . . while the rest of the patrol scrambled up the hill to regroup.
Since he was next in command, the responsibility now fell upon Sergeant Stewart. He [sent the] largest and seemingly strongest man . . . down the hill to rescue the lieutenant. The others would provide him with cover.
The man was gone for approximately half an hour, only to return and report that he could not budge the wounded officer.he was too heavy. . . . The men started grumbling about getting out of there before somebody else got hit. [Then] someone was heard to say, "Let's forget about the lieutenant; after all, he.s just a @$%@$%!" At this point Sergeant Stewart turned to his men, and pulling himself up to his full 65-inch stature, he spoke in very matter-of-fact tones: .I don't care if he.s black or green or any other color. We're not leaving without him. He wouldn't leave any of us in similar circumstances. Besides, he's our commanding officer and I love him like my own brother. "
Then he headed down the hill alone.
. . . When he finally reached [the lieutenant, the officer] was weak from loss of blood, and he assured the sergeant that it was a hopeless cause.there would be no way to get him back to the aid station in time. It was then that Sergeant Stewart.s great faith in his Heavenly Father came to his assistance. He took off his helmet, knelt beside his fallen leader and said, .Pray with me, Lieutenant.. . . .
"Dear Lord," he pleaded, "I need strength.far beyond the capacity of my physical body. This great man, thy son, who lies critically wounded here beside me, must have medical attention soon. I need the power to carry him up this hill to an aid station where he can receive the treatment he needs to preserve his life. I know, Father, that thou hast promised the strength of ten to him whose heart and hands are clean and pure. I feel that I can qualify. Please, Dear Lord, grant me this blessing."
Then he thanked his Father in Heaven for the power of prayer and the privilege of holding the priesthood. He then put on his helmet, reached down and picked up his fallen friend, cradled him over his shoulders and carried him back up the hill to safety
The atonement is what purifies our hearts and enables us to have the power, because we desire to do as Christ did, to walk where he walked, to speak how he spoke, and be as he IS. Us the Atonement, and remember that it is by Faith in Christ that we begin our journey and it is by the atonement that we continue that journey.
Have a great week, and change some peoples lives!!!
ELDER MASON R. SCOTT
No pictures this week, sorry
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