Hello All,
This week was really good for us and we saw many miracles. After District
Meeting yesterday morning, we
decided to tract for most of the day, we found no potentials after about 4 hours
of tracting, so we decided to visit some less actives, we taught a couple less
active lessons and we were able to teach one of our investigators and have a
really spiritual lesson. At the end of the night at 8 we were heading back to
the flat for dinner, but we decided to stop at the 7 Eleven to top up our go
cards (a card we put money on to pay for our fares on the buses and trains
in Australia) since we were taking the train to the temple the next day and as
we did so, one of the workers wanted to talk to us for a few minutes, so we
shared a 5 minute message introducing the Book of Mormon. He was really
interested and we have a lesson with him on Friday. He is a Muslim, but he is very interested in
learning about becoming a Christian, which is great. It goes to show that as
you work diligently as a missionary, people are still placed in your path in
places where you don't expect it, so it is always essential to talk with
everyone. It was a great experience!!
Suzanne is still doing really good and I am really looking forward to her
baptism on the 1st of Feb. We
are having a lesson today with
one of the part member families we are working with, and we will hopefully be
setting a goal for baptism with the kids. It will be great!
Since I was recently called as a zone leader, I had the privilege of
attending a 2 day training that was given to us the the Assistants and President
Henderson. We even got to stay in a hotel overnight since our zone is a bit
away from the city. I will share one of the many things I learned. In Preach
My Gospel page 10 it tells us that our success as missionaries is not measured
by the number of baptisms we have, how many lessons we teach a week, not by many
things, but our success is measured by the commitment we have to Find, Teach,
and Baptize. There are many missionaries who baptize very little people, but
the commitment they had was great, so that made them very successful. Some
missionaries don't have very much commitment and baptize a lot of people. Some
people have any commitment and still don't baptize anyone. So, it is important
to know no matter what we are doing as missionaries, or what is happening in our
areas, We are being successful missionaries if we show great commitment to
Finding, Teaching, and Baptizing the Lord's children on this earth today. Commitment is not measured by
any numbers. That is one of the main things I learned that many missionaries
can apply to them, but I know that it is definitely true doctrine given to us
through Preach My Gospel.
I hope you all have a great week!
Love,
Elder Kyler Powelson