Good morning again! It’s me! Elder Berrett. Let’s see, what
was I gonna, oh yes, so we were in Boulder this last week, and we ran into, we
were out contacting a less active that we’ve been trying to contact for awhile. This was like our third time trying and he
hasn’t been home. But, as we were
knocking on his door, his next door neighbor was coming out of her car, and we
were like, “perfect!” So we went over,
“Hi! How are you doing?” You know, just trying to be as friendly as we
can. And she was really receptive, she started talking to us, and welcomed us
into her home. So we sit down and we
begin to start sharing a message with her, and wow. It was a bit of an adventure. She was a… what’s the best way to put it? The way she… She’s a “all in one”, kindof
like a Buddhist-Christian ? God is more of a being. Something that lives inside every single one
of us, and connects us all. We don’t
really have… he controls us but we have to submit ourselves to his will to have
inner peace and joy. A lot of the stuff
she was saying, actually I’m like, Well, yeah, that’s, you know we’re
testifying of. We’re like, you know
Families are so important, or all these things.
We’re trying to latch. She’s just
kinda going on, almost trying to convert us.
And we’re like, “Absolutely yes, families are important!” Just latching
on to these principles that she’s saying, and we’d been there quite awhile, and
we just kinda got to the point where we gotta get going, so we quickly started
to just testify and invite her to see if she could increase her knowledge of
Jesus Christ, she definitely believes in Him, and so we invited her to read the
Book of Mormon, to see if that will increase her faith. And uh, at first she’s accepting it, and then
she sees the Book of Mormon and is all “ Oh, no,no,no,no,no.. I’m not reading
that. And she kind of looks at us and
it’s almost like realization kind of hit.
I guess she’s heard some stuff,
just maybe about what we believe, except it wasn’t really that bad.
She’s just like “Well I know that some of you guys believe that your church is
true…” And I’m like, “Yeah?!?...” She’s like, “You’ve just got to give in to
the all-in-one God, and allow him to just control you. Don’t believe in the church, just believe in
the God.” And I’m like, “Well yeah, we
do!” The reason I’m sharing all this was
because the spirit was prompting me at that moment to just kinda share my
testimony of the restoration. We did, and we left her with that and our
testimonies, but as we were leaving, she looked at me, and she said, “Well, I
don’t know why God has put you on this path, but he has for a reason and I’m
glad that you found this, but when the spirit tells you otherwise, you should
leave, and listen to the spirit and go where it tells you to go.” And I said, “You know, yes, if the spirit, it
never entered my mind, but if the spirit were to lead me elsewhere I would,
but, I know that God does not lie. I know that He has told me that this church
is true.” So it was kind of a cool
testimony experience for me. Yeah.
Let’s see, what else this week? I’m on pancake number 5 by the way. There we
go. Last pancake here. (whistling Ode to
Joy) Most of the missionaries in the
zone are doing good. Transfers are pretty good.
There’s one companionship that’s struggling. A pair of sisters. One of
them is super, super quiet. One of them
is super, super happy and just wants to talk all the ti… Oh. Gee, I wonder who that sounds like? But she’s a bit more of an overpowering, a dominant
personality and is trying to get the other one to really talk more, which makes
the other one draw away even more. The
quiet one comes from like a farm. Grew
up with cattle, like a dairy farm… homeschooled… She’s an awesome, awesome super powerful
missionary, but is a little hesitant at times, she’s kinda struggling with her
new companion. They’re struggling. So we’re keeping them in our prayers since
there’s not much else we as Elders can do.
Sister Training Leaders are on it though. They’re pretty awesome sisters. One of them
is a brand new Sister Training Leader.
She’s definitely like, (laughs) oh she was really wide-eyed last
night. She’s just like “Oh my goodness,
what is going on??” Day 5 of being a Sister Training Leader and she’s… Oh bless
her heart. They’ve got a hard, hard
job. They go on exchanges with every
single sister in their area that they cover. Every transfer. And these Sister Training Leaders cover 4
zones. 5, I think. 4 or 5 zones. Which
means they go on lots of exchanges. Lots of driving, and also, lots of
drama. Bless their hearts. I am so thankful that I’m an elder.
Oh crap. Last pancake
and I mess it up. I was going to go to flip it and I kinda like, I don’t know,
apparently didn’t get the last part up, and I went to flip it and it just kinda
curled up on itself. (sigh) We can’t all be perfect. That’s why the atonement’s real. (whistling Ode to Joy)
Let’s see, what else? Oh, all the snow is finally
melting. We just got another huge snow
storm a couple days ago, it had pretty much just all melted, and then it dumps
on us! That’s Montana winters for ya. So
I never got to make a snowman. Last
Monday it was just way too powdery. It
wasn’t wet enough. Which is
alright. It’s something I can do with my
kids at some point, or even next time it snows.
At this point I’ve just kinda given up hope that it’s going to be the
last one. It’s just like, yeah, it’s gonna happen. Just accept it for what it is. And call it
good.
And that’s all the pancake mix. Six pancakes. Perfect. Enough for Elder
Shumway and I. Turn the stove off. I’m hungry, I’m not going to wait for Elder
Shumway, I’m just going to say the blessing and start eating. How long has this recording been going? This
recording has been paused. So… Maybe it was going? So I really hope it’s going.
Because last I checked it said four minutes and now it says nine so I think
it’s been going? But it says paused. But
the thing is blinking and the counter is still going so I’m just going to
ignore that, call it a glitch and keep on going.
This week coming up we have MLC on Tuesday, we just finished
setting up for it. Oh, that’s right,
after our mission prep fireside that we just had, all the youth from the stake,
juniors and seniors, were invited to this mission prep/temple prep/life prep
fireside. Super good. Us and the sister
training leaders were asked to lead a discussion on the importance of building
your testimony and increasing your knowledge.
And that was really fun. Really
fun role play. Elder Shumway got up and
he drew this example of a football play on the white board. You know, all these X’s and O’s. And then he said “I need someone who doesn’t
know anything about football. Actually Camie volunteered. And he’s like “Perfect. Now Camie, I want you, in 30 seconds, tell me
a…” It was like a… there was the number
3 in it…It was like a 3 person defense, 3 region? No, “3 something defense.
Go!” Clearly I don’t know what I’m talking about too. And at which point she
kinda looked at it and went , “What do the X’s mean?” She did a wonderful job, bless her
heart. But, you know, we thanked her,
and sat her down, and then pretty much said that we need to learn the
gospel. At some point or other someone
is going to ask if we believe it, and if we have, they are going to ask us
again. We’re going to reach points in
our life, where we have to know these things.
And if you don’t know it now, you’re going to end up stammering and
stuck and not knowing what to do. And
apparently that actually connected with a lot of the youth. So It was cool, and then right after that we
had a Preach My Gospel lesson, shared a bunch of scriptures, D&C 11:21, a
lot of Second Nephi… That’s a lot of
good looking pancakes. And overall, it
was really awesome. We had treats because
all the missionaries were there. Oh
yeah, so all the juniors and seniors were invited, and I think maybe we had 6
people come. No, maybe it was like 8 or
10 youth, but WAY less than everyone thought was going to come. There was a whole ward that was like, “No,
we’re just not going to come.” The
Townsend ward. Oh, the stake presidency was not too happy there. Especially since some of the youth from that
ward were on the program.
But, let’s see… syrup, Oh, there’s already a plate
there. I only needed to grab one plate.
I need to grab another fork though. Grab another fark, as apparently they say
in American Fark. Ok there we go. And
I’m gonna say a prayer and send this off. Love you mom! Bye!
No comments:
Post a Comment