WAZZUP!!!!!!
They
took the Sister missionaries out of our ward now...so now the ward is all ours!
It's huge... but President said that we'll be getting Elders next change (which
is next week). About the work...here's what I wrote to President
Hi President,
This week we had an incredible
experience with our ward mission leader. We used the Book of Mormon to help
explain our concern for the Leaders and the inner problems that they're having
in their families/quorums that make it so they can't work as much to achieve
their goals, have peace and progress in their lives both spiritually and
temporally. Due to these inner problems, the leaders don't leave with us,
haven't been having their meetings and slowly but surely, lose the desire to go
to church. He told us that we had basically read his mind. He talked about the rebellion
in his own family that has made it so he can't leave with us as much. He said
that his wife and daughter have been against having family prayer, scripture
study and family home evening and explained some results of those actions. He
was like, “how can we pretend to be strong, faithful members, go to the temple
twice a month and expect the blessings of the Lord if we're not even doing the
basic things?” He said that he wanted to fast with us Saturday after lunch to
ask for the Lord's help in finding the solution to our problem. We’ve been
trying to get a representative of each organization to attend our correlation
with our ward mission leader and Saturday morning (even after reminding the
organizations many times during the week about the meeting) no one went except
for us and Hermano Borja (Ward Mission Leader). We started the fast and talked
about the importance of diligence with the Hermano because we saw that he was
really down. He realizes the need for unity that we have in our ward and really
wants to magnify his calling and help the ward grow. That night, we received a
message out of nowhere from one of the assistants to the high priest leader
asking if we could have a meeting before church on Sunday. We asked Hermano
Borja if he wanted to do it and he was like, “CLARO!'' Then as we were walking
in the street, I was writing a message to one of the counselors to the Elders’
Quorum and he bumped into us. We asked him if he could attend the meeting and
he said he'd go. Sunday in the meeting, we got SO MUCH done. We got the leaders
excited about the work. We asked them when they could leave with us to actually
DO what we planned on doing and they set up dates, times and everything. They
wanted to take copies of the Progressing Members Form and get them out to the
new Home Teachers. And we set up for our next meeting. It was definitely an
answer to our prayers. It's incredible how much gets done when all of the
organizations are in on the plan. Things are finally getting started. We're
excited to see the changes in the ward.
We shared our experiences with
the District Leaders and had a great meeting with them. Something cool that
happened was when we asked for feedback on how we've been doing with Following
Up they said that we do too much of it, even on the small things like if they
did their workouts or not. haha. I loved hearing that because I feel like our
District Leaders and we are on the same page.
Yeah...about
the Grandma Seaman thing. I've thought about those kind of situations for a
long time on the mission. How badly do people's lives have to suck to make them
at least willing to experiment on our invitations (that really aren't from
us...they're from the LORD GOD ALMIGHTY)? Happiness is so simple. People think
that they can do things their way. And when they fail they just say, “well I
didn't do it exactly my way... so I'm going to try to do it my way even harder
this time to find happiness/quit smoking/find someone to marry/ect. I just
think that the Lord looks down and shakes His head asking, “how many times does
your way have to fail for you to find out that MY WAY is the ONLY WAY?”
Tomorrow
we'll be having Interviews with Pte Smith so I'll have more to say.
Love,
E’
McRae
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