hello familia!
So, yesterday we had this giant meeting all day so today is our p day. Not forever, just this week. So it sounds like everyone is doing great! thanks for the letters. Mom, your letters are soo funny every week. i can totally see you swimming in the lake during the hurricanne but not gonna lie, i wasnt expecting to hear that the Morriss' did it with you! hahaha that is too funny. But i love all your letters, thanks for writing!
Right now, Elder Golden of the Seventy is here touring the mission. thats the meeting we had all day yesterday. It was amazing i loved it. He's a really great guy from South Africa. The meeting was from 8 to 5. Really long but it was soooo good. I learned a lot and I think im going to change the ways i do some things. I think thats rerally important, to always be trying to improve, trying out new things, seeing what works and what doesnt. Im trying trying to come up wih some new ideas on how to do things. get creative and find ways of doing things that are more effective. We've got some ideas so im gonna see how they go.
So, this week was..... interesting. haha we had kind of a hard week. We had such a great week planned with so many member present appointments but instead we just had so many cancellations. hahaha a lot. but its ok. i guess it just happens sometimes cuz people DO have their agency. im just trying to figure out ways that we can help so that it doesn't happen as much. But Im grateful for those hard times that we get to have. All part of the experience. And We have these trials for a reason, not just to give us a hard time. They help us learn and grow more than anything else. I learned a lot this week about humility and patience. haha ...a lot about patience and enduring things well. I think i learned more this week than i have in my whole mission. And when you have those hard times it just makes the good times that much better. I've really learned that when you have done ALL you can do and still fall short, the Lord makes up the rest. We had some days this week where we just got worked all day. Door slams, cancellations, people yellin at us, all that stuff. But almost every time, at the very end of the day, when it was late and dark, is when we got to see little blessings. We were blessed to find some really great people who im really excited to teach. I love my mission. i love everything about it, the good parts and the hard parts. I love this opportunity i have to be a missionary and be a servant of the Lord. 2 years doesn't seem like enough time. Theres so much to do. The things i've learned on my mission and the things i'm learning everyday i cant put a price on. i dont know how to explain how i feel when im kneeling in prayer with a man who lives in nothing but a dirt shed and only has bread to eat, and he prays for me and my family. Im having humbling experiences i honestly cant explain. These people and these experiences change you and they have certainly changed me. Im teaching these people but i think im learning a lot more from them then they are from me. I dont know what i would do without my mission. i am very grateful for my mission. anyway, im out of time. I love you all and love you very much.
love, elder foulger
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