This week was so incredibly busy, but I loved it. With the exception of Monday, we had all of our days packed, and a couple of times double or tripled booked. But even with so much during the week, it still had its miracles and blessings!
As for a little about the week, Monday was our finding day. Since it is usually a p-day, our day was not set up with a lot of people to visit, but that was a blessing because it gave us time to find as as the rest of the week, we really would not have much time to find new investigators. As the day went on, we just were not able to find much success. We found a few really awesome people, but none of them were really sticking. It just seemed to be a really tough day for finding, but God was watching out for us. The entire week seemed to be really hard, but on Saturday, the miracles came. We really saw that as we first put in the work, the blessings will come, it just may take a little while to get to see or receive them. So, as hard as it is, patience brings blessing.
On Wednesday, we had our temple day! That was such a blast! Going to the temple is always such a fun experience and the day even got better with the evening. We have set up two new LAs(less active members). One of them ended up being a part member family. We are now helping their children prepare for baptism. The other LA was referred to us just last week. They were both so awesome and it was so much fun being able to help them better understand the gospel! We really have been so blessed in our area having so many amazing people to share the gospel with and it just seemed to get better as the week went on!
Part of the reason this last week was so busy was because we had MLC(mission leader conference) this last week. As President Jergensen, his wife, the assistants, and the temple sisters, where sharing their trainings, it was really interesting to see the focus was very similar to all of the recent talks and stake conferences, church attendance. President Jergensen and his wife really pressed on the aspect of helping our investigators not only set a baptismal date, but also work to attend church each week to partake of the sacrament and have that spiritual experience of attending church. So, for this next month, the biggest thing the entire mission will be focusing on is helping our investigators (including recent converts and less actives) attend church because as they attend church, they can receive those experiences and blessings of the meaning of the sacrament.
Up to Saturday, things seemed to be doing pretty well. As I mentioned before, up to this point in the week, new investigators and just a couple of part of missionary work seemed to be going a little slow, but God really had a plan for us. We saw two huge miracles on Saturday and then one really big one on Sunday.
This week, really has been such a blessing. We have been blessed to have seen so many miracles and blessed to have had sooooo many people to share the gospel with. Thank you so much for all the letters and all of the prayers! They really make a difference! Hope you all have a great week!
我愛你們,
Love you,
柯長老
Elder Okeson |
| Photo with some of my MTC district at MLC |
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| Hiking 象山 (Elephant Mountain) with the district minus one other set of sisters due to travel time, they couldn't make the trip in the morning. |
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