August 19
Hello family and friends,
How is everyone doing? I hope that you all enjoyed your last week of summer. I am glad to hear that Bear Lake was fun and that you all had a fun time. Glad everyone stayed safe.
My week has been good. I am defiantly learning a lot about faith and patients this week. I am trying really hard not to be discouraged and not let my companion down. We haven't been able to find new people to teach yet and this is frustrating. We had a few lessons set up last week and they didn't go well. One of our lessons was suppose to be a pass off lesson and the Elders didn't even teach her anything gospel related. That was a little frustrating, but that's no reason to get upset about. We do however, have a return appointment with her tonight so we are excited about that. We also had an appointment with a part-member family and we called to confirm with them and she said that they were actually on vacation and wouldn't be home til Sunday. We were really bummed about that, but didn't let that bother us. We will be setting up another appointment with them for this week.
We are working with our ward mission leader a lot and he has been giving us some names, so hopefully we will be able to teach them really soon. This ward is really wanting to help us missionaries out. Our plan is to really work with the members this week and try to set up dates of when they can have a non-member in their home. We want them to build a relationship with them before and then when the time is right have us missionaries come in and teach their families. This is the best way that the members can help us with missionary work.
In my studies this week, I have been studying more about faith and having the faith to find people to teach. I feel like my faith isn't has strong has it could be and that this is effecting our finding. Right now I just feel lost and don't know where to start. I can feel that Satan is working on me really hard and is doing everything that he can to discourage me. I have been doing a lot of praying and asking for the strength that I need to stay strong and keep moving when times get hard. I taught Zone Meeting this past week on this very subject. Not going to lie, this was really hard for me to teach. I was thinking to myself how can I teach my Zone about faith to find when I don't really have the faith myself. I then remembered something that President Becerra has always said. "If you don't believe something then bear your testimony on it." Well that is what I did. It was amazing to me how I felt when I was teaching everyone and how much my faith grew that day. I learned so much and know that if we have a desire and act on that desire than the Lord will bless you. I am going to take what I learned and apply this in my work this week. I have this great desire to find those people and to find people to teach, now I just need to go out of my way and talk to has many people as I can. I love what I am doing as a missionary. It is hard work and sometimes discouraging at times, but I know that every time I feel like this I know that I can say a prayer and can feel the peace that I need and have the strength that I need to keep going. I know that my Heavenly Father loves me and is proud of the great work that I am doing. I know that anything is possible through the Atonement of Jesus Christ. I love my Savior and all that he has done for me. I am happy and I know that I am blessing many lives out here because of my diligence and wanting to do the very best that I know I can be.
I love you all and I hope you have a great week. I am sorry if my emails have not been so exciting lately and so short. I hope you still enjoy them!!
Love Sister Ackley
Pictures: Sister Mattingley and I, Sister Amataga and I riding bikes and some other pictures.
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