Hello family and friends!!! Its crazy how fast the weeks are going by. Next week I will hit my 6 month mark and that is just weird. This week... was again not a very successful week finding new people and being able to teach them. We have decided that we are going to focus more on the members. The topic of building the church and growing the church has been brought up. Growing the church is all on the numbers and baptizing. Building the church is all on teaching, training and lifting up the members we have now. It takes charity and hard work and that's what we are going to do the next month. This week we also had zone conference and it was really cool how president did things this time. We split into groups and discussed the council in heaven. One group was Satan, the other Jesus and the 3rd were those who had to decide who's plan to choose. The 2 groups argued there points and presented there plans and it was really fun. President challenged us to study and think about the council in heaven and to try and understand the importance of it. We then were trained by Sister Hansen on how to become better teachers and then the zone leaders trained us on becoming meek and lowly in heart! I love Zone conference because it is a time that we all come together as disciples of Christ and we learn and grow together as well as share new ideas and make plans on how we are going to achieve our goals and CONQUER INDIA as president would say! We were able to go on splits this Sunday with some of the prospective missionaries in our ward and that was awesome. I love being able to be a part of these kids lives, and show them how fun, serious and important missionary work is. Missionary work is not all about the numbers. It is about serving, strengthening those around you, going through true conversion yourself and becoming a true disciple of Christ. I love that i'm able to do that, and I love that i'm able to do it in such a unique and crazy place!!! That is it for the week. The only thing i'd ask of you is to keep our less active, Brother Tushar in your prayers. He was baptized a couple months ago and hasn't been to church for a long time. We met him last Wednesday and are working to help him and get him back to church! I love all of you and so grateful to have all of you in my life. Have an amazing week and look to serve those around you!!! Goodbye from INDIA!!!
Spiritual thought: Mosiah 3:7( the last sentence). It says...so great shall be his anguish for the wickedness and the abominations of his people.
We read this in zone conference and then Elder Robison bore an amazing testimony on the last sentence in this verse. He said "Elders and Sisters it pains me that I am a reason. That something I did, a decision or choice I made, a sin I committed has caused my Savior to bleed and to feel pain". He said that we need to make sure that the bleeding our Savior did for us is not in vain!
We need to make sure that right now we are living our lives the way the Savior would want us to. Be obedient, keep the commandments, go to church on Sunday, serve others, fulfill your callings, be clean and pure and always strive to have the spirit with you. It is my testimony that I know my Saviors lives, and I am grateful for him and the sacrifice he made for all of us. I am also pained that I caused some of that bleeding, but i'm going to try everyday to not let that bleeding be in vain. I love this church! It is true brothers and sisters. I love the book of Mormon! It is true! I love being a missionary and I love sacrificing my time and energy to bless others and to serve my Heavenly Father and Savior Jesus Christ. Now is the time to step up to the plate and be what the Savior needs us to be!
Highlights:
- Zone Conference in Vasant Vihar
- Saw stars for the first time in 5 months!
- Walked through a celebration for Ganesh (A god in India)
- BYU wins again!!
- Veronica said she is going to come to General Conference ( our catholic investigator)
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