Another successful day of tracting
Hey, all! It's a short one this week. But I wanted to share what I wrote to my mission president, and then I wanted to share a link to a Mormon Message. It definitely applies and helped me a ton today! :)
I would say this week has been pretty good, with all things considered. In trying to keep an eternal perspective, I'd say I'm grateful for this week. Sometimes you have those weeks where everything falls through, almost everyone drops you, and you're inclined to ask God why he let that happen, but it lead to something greater!
My friend shared this story with me, and I thought it really applied to my week.
"Our mission president was teaching his son how to mow their lawn and it was taking his son a really long time to get the job done. Little by little he got better, and it got to the point where he now can mow the lawn one-handed, at like 20 miles an hour! Haha! He told us that when he was frustrated with his son initially, he had the thought come to his mind which said, 'Rich,' [he calls himself this when he is talking to himself, apparently] 'you are not just mowing a lawn, you are mowing a boy.'"
I get impatient with myself a lot! I just wanna be a perfect missionary already. I just wanna have all the answers to people's questions, but that's not how it works at all! It's about mowing a missionary, huh? :) So we're starting from square one this week and really, really focusing on the members. Thank goodness, we didn't lose our whole teaching pool, but we did lose a few potentials (and it felt like a lot! haha). But now we're really working with our ward mission leader, and we're really trying to get involved with the ward and build relationships. I think if this past week hadn't have been so awful, we would have never thought that we needed to do that, so I think the Lord really does cut you down for a reason! I'm so grateful for that!
Can't see the video? Click here.
~Sister Nielsen
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