WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO MY DOG!!!!!!!!!! Im glad he is doing better though. Wonder what he ate that could make him sick, dog has an iron stomach. Jake was talking about going and doing harvest when i was there. He said he could make more money. He should be back though, at least thats what he told Calvin when i was there. I feel bad for Michael though. Having to actually work and go out into the field. Poor guy. No that sucks though i agree another worker would be helpful. Thank you momma i love you to. Fast sunday here was different. So they still gave us time for dinner saturday and breakfast sunday but everyone is fasting so we just kinda sat in our class and studied. Kind of a pattern here at the CCM. Oh you have more time? Try and memorize this vocab! But yeah its great. Yeah dad told me about the details. Very nice hard by the way in that picture of you guys driving.
I got everything in my suitcase. You are super good at packing. Gunna take pictures as i unpack. Your watermelon looks pretty good not gunna lie. The watermelon here is like the only fruit that isnt amazing.
So my week.
So after emails and stuff i have like 2 hours left cause Langeveld takes forever to write his email. I make fun of him for it a lot. He loves it. But so i was reading a bunch of general conference talks and got a bunch of good stuff. Pretty cool. Im really glad you packed those ensigns for me. Seriously like amazing. As amazing as the scriptures are its nice to read other stuff every now and then. Wish i had brought my Jesus the Christ. Would be fun to read it again. But i manage! Haha. Played volleyball and fun stuff.
Thursday i studied. Then when i was bored i studied more. And so on.
Friday was cool because i taught another missionary from a different district by myself just a one on one and it went really well. I am grateful though to have a comp who is a boss at this language. At least for the CCM. Makes gaps better.
Saturday was trc. Trc is when we teach actual people. Last week we just taught another mission comp but this week we taught actual mexicanos. It was crazy. So we taught a couple and the guy, Fransico, had been a member for 40 some years, has been a stake and a mission president, and 5 of his 7 children have either served a mission or he has one on a mission. The other 2 are girls and were married in the temple and such. So he basically taught us more than we taught him. Like Langeveld would share a story and then Frank would bare his testimony of it then share another scripture and tell us how he likes it. Then i would share a scripture and Frank would be like " that reminds me of this story is this scripture" and he would just go.His wife didn’t say much, thankfully cause when she talked she talked fast, and quiet. Seriously couldn’t understand like anything. It was bad. But a good experience.
I basically told you about sunday.
Monday was good. My district has been having trouble with staying focused for the last couple weeks so Presidente Lindeman told me to share this with the district. So when he was a teacher at the provo mtc they used to have 3 teachers for language, a morning day and evening teacher. Well about halfway through his teaching years the mission department changed that and said the missionaries need to have a block of time when they are responsible for learning and teaching themselves. So after lunch now we just study by ourselves. There is a teacher in the building that if we can ask questions we can go to them, but other than that it is on us. I like that time because i do most of my memorizing stuff during that time. But i think it helped. Everyone is kind of figuring it out now.
Tuesday was awesome. As always. Our devotional was by Elder Holland during a talk in January 2013. It was so good so here are the points.
So he starts off saying how everything he has he cherishes because of his mission. Then he says that the missionaries of old were able to succeed because of one fact. He thinks they all knew that apostasy would happen however they could keep going because they knew that we would succeed. The missionaries in this dispensation would succeed. Because our dispensation will be the final dispensation. ¡Because this is the generation that will not fail! Then he talked about how the 2nd coming started in 1820 at palmyra. Then he talked some more about stuff that doesn’t really affect non missionaries.The he gave us a challenge. And when an apostle of the lord challenges you you take it. He challenged us to come home with at least 1 convert. No matter where we are, no matter what area we are in, no matter how bad or good our companion is, or your branch council or whatever your excuse may be, come home having converted yourself. Then he said I command you to come home with at least one convert, and it better be you. That was super good and gave me chills. Because everything else is entirely up to someone else. But what I do and what I feel is up to me. Its the element i have complete control over. Elder Holland says that the turning point in his life was the day he opened his call. For your sake invest yourself in your mission, for your sake, for your family´s sake and for the sake of your lord, invest yourself in your mission. Then he talked about some more stuff, then he said what is the title of our handbook? It is Preach MY Gospel. Not Preach your Gospel, or your mission presidents Gospel, MY gospel. It is his Gospel so we do it his way. The title was almost Preach my Gospel, with my spirit. Really liked that. Forget yourself and attend to the work.
We are God´s investigators, we are not any better than the people we teach. We are just simply farther along. We want our investigators to read and pray, well God wants us to read and pray. It really made me think. I am not any better than those people. I might know a little bit more, but I’m not better than them. I am a missionary but I'm not the teacher. God is the only true missionary. So when Alma the younger was converted by the angel it says that the earth shook beneath him. Elder Holland asked a simple question. Do you think a mile away that you windows rattled? Holland suggests that we can have personal earthquakes. We need to astonish the people. The word astonish root word is tondra, which is thunder. We need to astonish people when we teach. When we leave the family needs to turn to each other and say who were those young men and what did they know. Teach to astonish.
How do we know if we are doing what we can. If you are growing your testimony, and teaching with faith, you are doing your job. I love stuff like that cause it helps me I never feel like i am marking up to what i can be doing. So holland says if you do that then just work as hard as you can until someone says to go home. Notice he didn’t say to work until a month before than think of home. I know its early but i hope i can do that.
So after devotionals we always get together as a district and talk about. I asked the group what is the difference between Elder Holland and us. We have the same basic knowledge of the gospel. We both hold the priesthood. So what is the difference. We need to live the gospel and trust the lord and we to can astonish people.
Well thats about it. Im glad i chose to serve a mission and glad to have such an amazing support back home. Love you all and be strong and love the lord.
Proverbs 3:5-6
Elder Galbreath the 6th
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