Hola Familia!
Bry good
to hear that you decided to go on your mission! Maybe you will get lucky
and come to our mission so I can train you hahaha slight chance but "It
could happen"- JP from Angels in the Outfield :)
Things here are going pretty good. We got to spend
some more time with Elder Clarke this week so that was an adventure. We
had Zone Conferences and a Zone Leader meeting that he was in charge of and we
all learned a lot of things that are going to help our mission out
a ton. Some cool things ...so our mission was created
and it is how eventually all other missions will be in the future.
We have a ton of missionaries in a small area and we just go nuts
haha. Now it all makes sense because of the age difference..the church
normally has several hundred applications for missions each week but this
past week there was about 4200! So it is going to keep going up quite a
bit and because they will be having a lot more missionaries they will be able
to create more missions like ours...Kinda cool to be the pioneer of all the
missionary work, especially when you get to work side by side with General
Authorities to make sure it works. They are working super close with our
mission right now so that they can know exactly what they need to do with the
other missions that they will be creating or reforming here in the near future.
They said that it is the last big change in missionary work that will happen
before the Second Coming so that is kind of nuts too! I don’t know, but I think
that it is kind of cool to take a step back and look at exactly what is
happening and realize that I have a bigger part to play in this whole thing
than I ever thought I would have on a mission. I got to talk to Elder
Clarke one on one before he left which was definitely a blessing and he gave me
some advice for things that I could do to be the best missionary I could be and
a lot of small stuff that he said would help me out after the mish.
The work is going a lot better here right now. We have
4 people that are getting ready to get baptized! We had a really cool
lesson at Temple Square this week with a girl that came back to church for the
first time yesterday in a long time. When we
went down to Temple Square we talked a lot about the Atonement and Repentance
and the Spirit was super strong. We also watched a Mormon Message that is
about not looking behind us and that is exactly what this girl needed to do at
that time is to leave everything at the Savior's feet and not look
back..
It's cool to see people
come back to church that haven't been there in such a long time because you can
see the happiness and the excitement they have when they feel God's love for
them, something they haven't felt in a long time. You can see it in their eyes
and it is just something that can't be bought for them. As we are
teaching them we can feel the Spirit super strong and as we help them recognize
that they are feeling the Spirit they have the same reaction that Alma the
younger has in Alma 36. As we help them understand that every time they
feel the Spirit they know that the Atonement of Jesus Christ is active in their
lives!
This next week is going to be super busy as transfers are
coming up. I was pretty sick these last couple days and have been dead
tired like you wouldn't believe haha. On Saturday I felt absolutely
terrible and I was told to stay inside but as I told Jessie before, we don't
take breaks..Just break records haha. So we went out and worked and that
night we had a really really good
night. We found several new people that we could teach and in a
couple of those instances we were just in the right place at the right time
obviously being guided by the Spirit so I know we were definitely blessed for
going out and working...I still feel terrible though haha..Yesterday we gave
talks as well. The topic that they assigned me to speak about was
planning for the future. I started my talk by talking about how Elder
Clarke talked about in conference that we need to have Jesus Christ as #1 on our
list of the most important things. I talked about how when I was younger
He probably wasn't as high on that list as He should have been but as I grew
older and more converted to the Gospel, He became number one on my list and I
talked about how when planning for the future we need to have Him as #1 on our
list and we need to be happy to do His will because sometimes His will is
different than ours. Then I shared my
sports story and about how well my plan worked out haha-- but because of that I
was able to prepare for my mission way better than I probably would have otherwise. So I
learned to follow the will of God with a smile on my face. Then I talked
about how the perfect example of planning for the future was Jesus
Christ. God knew that in order for us to have eternal life we needed to
be clean because no unclean thing can dwell with Him. He knew that we
would all make mistakes every day- some big and some small-that would take us
farther away from that goal but because Christ performed the Atonement he made it
possible from the very beginning to overcome all of that. Christ was the
perfect example of doing the Father's will as it says in Matthew 26:39. I then
invited everyone to go home from church and to make a list of their top 5 most
important things and if Christ wasn't on the top, then to make the necessary
changes so that He is on the top.
Well I hope all is going
well with all of you!
Love ya!
Siempre crean,
Elder Creer
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