So this week was pretty good. We didn't have to many awesome teaching appts, but we had a good week. We did an exchange with the zone leaders on Tuesday so that was good it helped my comp out, but it also helped me out. It gave me some more confidence to be able to train! So that is good.
Then on Wednesday we saw one of our investigators and he said God told him he needs to change and so he is picking up speed. I think I can feel he is going to make it this time he has tried so many times, but I think this is the time he will do it so he and his family can all get baptized it will be great!
On Thursday we got to go to the Temple and that was fantastic. I love going to the temple it is just a great way to clear your mind and get re-centered it was a great experience. I loved it again! I don't know how I am able to tract with so much ease now, but I do. The Lord has done so much for me it is amazing to see. It just makes me want to help others be able to have the Lord help them as much as he has helped me out! So that they can have true joy in the gospel like me!
On Saturday our investigator had his baptismal interview and he had had a cup of coffee so he will have to wait a week. Because of some legal issues he had in the past he had to have a 2nd interview with someone in the Misision Presidency and he did that Sunday morning and now he can get baptized this Saturday. It is so awesome I am super excited that he finally is taking this step. It has been a long path with him but he has finally made it and it is awesome to see ho he has changed just in the short time I have seen him! I love this gospel so much and I love what it can do for others.
Sunday night we had this thing called President's Fireside where recent converts give talks about their conversion story and we can only go if we have an investigator. We got one to go and it hit him hard and he said he realized that it is not hard to change your life and get baptized and that he is going to do that so it is awesome!
WELL THAT IS ALL FOR THIS WEEK
TILL NEXT WEEK LOVE
SETH!
Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Monday, January 12, 2015
Humbling, but Confidence building week!
So this week was an interesting one but a good one for the first fee days. On Tuesday me and Elder Boekweg went around so he could say bye to some people and that was really good. He said goodbye to our investigator Dotte and she was crying. She told us we came in at just the right time and that we did make a difference in their lives and that was really comforting to hear that we do make a difference with every action that we take!
On Wednesday we went up to Bloomington for transfers and I had a trainers meeting. At first President Forbes sits down and says "I got a call from the Mission office and we have to send 8 of our missionaries to Oklahoma" and then he said "Elder Howe after this you need to go back to your apartment and pack your bags you leave tomorrow." I thought he was joking at first so I laughed and he didn't so I thought he might be serious and I got a little scared, but then he said he was joking, but that is how a visa missionary feels. Wow that was scary for a moment I thought I was going to Oklahoma! I went around with some other elders till my new companion came in. His name is Elder Wilkinson and he is from Mountain Green, UT. We had a few lessons and went to bed.
The next day it is night time and it is cold and my comp wasn't packed for Minnesota so he is super cold and I locked the keys in the car so we had to wait like an hour and a half for the cops to come and unlock it for us. I felt so dumb and that was when I started to feel super inadequate as a trainer ,but the next day during what we call companionship inventory I asked him what his goals were and he said he had one goal and it was not to go home and my heart dropped. I said that is a goal you will accomplish. He was having a hard time with the whole reassignment and home sickness and I got the prompting that an interview with president and an exchange with this other elder who I knew went through that same kind of thing would help. After they both happened he was happy and that gave me so much more confidence. We went tracting that day and I led out at every door and I wasn't nervous at all. I was able to just talk to people it was so great because I have always had a hard time with that. The Lord has blessed me so much since I have been out I would never have been able to do that before I came out here it is amazing what he can do with you if you just let him into your heart and do his will and not yours! I am just finding so much more joy in missionary work now. I just love being a missionary and sharing the gospel with everybody it is great! Well till next week.
Love Seth!
P.S. The pic is the last time me, Elder Boekweg, and Harry were together.
On Wednesday we went up to Bloomington for transfers and I had a trainers meeting. At first President Forbes sits down and says "I got a call from the Mission office and we have to send 8 of our missionaries to Oklahoma" and then he said "Elder Howe after this you need to go back to your apartment and pack your bags you leave tomorrow." I thought he was joking at first so I laughed and he didn't so I thought he might be serious and I got a little scared, but then he said he was joking, but that is how a visa missionary feels. Wow that was scary for a moment I thought I was going to Oklahoma! I went around with some other elders till my new companion came in. His name is Elder Wilkinson and he is from Mountain Green, UT. We had a few lessons and went to bed.
The next day it is night time and it is cold and my comp wasn't packed for Minnesota so he is super cold and I locked the keys in the car so we had to wait like an hour and a half for the cops to come and unlock it for us. I felt so dumb and that was when I started to feel super inadequate as a trainer ,but the next day during what we call companionship inventory I asked him what his goals were and he said he had one goal and it was not to go home and my heart dropped. I said that is a goal you will accomplish. He was having a hard time with the whole reassignment and home sickness and I got the prompting that an interview with president and an exchange with this other elder who I knew went through that same kind of thing would help. After they both happened he was happy and that gave me so much more confidence. We went tracting that day and I led out at every door and I wasn't nervous at all. I was able to just talk to people it was so great because I have always had a hard time with that. The Lord has blessed me so much since I have been out I would never have been able to do that before I came out here it is amazing what he can do with you if you just let him into your heart and do his will and not yours! I am just finding so much more joy in missionary work now. I just love being a missionary and sharing the gospel with everybody it is great! Well till next week.
Love Seth!
P.S. The pic is the last time me, Elder Boekweg, and Harry were together.
Good week but crazy transfer news!
So this week was pretty good. We went on exchange Monday and Tuesday it kinda sucked because on Tuesday I was in Anoka and my comp was teaching this guy named Landon that we teach who is super close to baptism. Then in the one lesson I am not in he tells us he wants to be baptized this month. He should be getting baptized on the 24 of January it is super exciting. He has had a hard life and I can tell the Gospel has just made him a much better person his wife is already a member and he talked about how he just wants to be sealed to her and it is so great to hear so that is super exciting we will have a baptism this month so that is good!
On Wednesday at the food shelf we do service at a crazy guy came through and was yelling and just being dumb. It just amazed me how somebody who is getting food for free so they can survive is complaining to the people who are providing it for him. It kinda made me mad how he just couldn't be thankful for anything!, but it is all good it was just kinda crazy!
On New Years Eve we went to dinner at a members house with the sisters in our Ward and then played Uno and I lost every time so that was fun Ha Ha! Thursday was our actual p-day and we did a district p-day. We went bowling and that was super fun I actually won a game and then I did awful, but it was a super fun p-day!
Not much else happened this week except on Sunday. So if you are going to train in the mission when transfers come around president calls you the night before the transfer sheets comes out which is on Monday. So we are in a member's home sharing a message and the phone rings. It is president and my comp answers it and president asks to speak to me. I was oh man and he told me I am training and not only that but the guy I will be training will be a visa waiter. Who is waiting to go to Brazil so that will interesting! Being called to train is super humbling. It is humbling that the Lord trusts me with such an important task. President told me that President Monson has said that the trainer is the most important leadership position in the mission. That hit me hard because I am no where near perfect and the first thing that came to my mind was I need to change some things. I am so humbled to be able to train but i am also excited. My love for this gospel has grown so much since I have been out because I can tell just how much it really does change your life if you just let the Spirit in to your heart. I have seen it first hand with Harry and it is amazing! I will never forget the change it made in him! it just seems so natural now to share the gospel not just because I am a missionary but because I just want other's lives to be better then they are now and the gospel can do that for anybody no matter the situation they are in!
I love it out here it is crazy how time has gone by well till next week
love Seth
On Wednesday at the food shelf we do service at a crazy guy came through and was yelling and just being dumb. It just amazed me how somebody who is getting food for free so they can survive is complaining to the people who are providing it for him. It kinda made me mad how he just couldn't be thankful for anything!, but it is all good it was just kinda crazy!
On New Years Eve we went to dinner at a members house with the sisters in our Ward and then played Uno and I lost every time so that was fun Ha Ha! Thursday was our actual p-day and we did a district p-day. We went bowling and that was super fun I actually won a game and then I did awful, but it was a super fun p-day!
Not much else happened this week except on Sunday. So if you are going to train in the mission when transfers come around president calls you the night before the transfer sheets comes out which is on Monday. So we are in a member's home sharing a message and the phone rings. It is president and my comp answers it and president asks to speak to me. I was oh man and he told me I am training and not only that but the guy I will be training will be a visa waiter. Who is waiting to go to Brazil so that will interesting! Being called to train is super humbling. It is humbling that the Lord trusts me with such an important task. President told me that President Monson has said that the trainer is the most important leadership position in the mission. That hit me hard because I am no where near perfect and the first thing that came to my mind was I need to change some things. I am so humbled to be able to train but i am also excited. My love for this gospel has grown so much since I have been out because I can tell just how much it really does change your life if you just let the Spirit in to your heart. I have seen it first hand with Harry and it is amazing! I will never forget the change it made in him! it just seems so natural now to share the gospel not just because I am a missionary but because I just want other's lives to be better then they are now and the gospel can do that for anybody no matter the situation they are in!
I love it out here it is crazy how time has gone by well till next week
love Seth
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