2010 11 04m
Buenos
Dias,
This week
we've had some really good experiences with members in our area. We had a
couple of good 15 minute dinner lessons, and on Thursday we saw one of our
members out trick or treating with her kids and she told us that she had a
family that they wanted to invite over for a Noche de Hogar! We also had the
opportunity to help with a Primary activity and had a wonderful lesson with B
and S (investigators) that Hna Escobar came to with us. It was such a good
lesson, and Hna Escobar is just so cute!
One
exciting story from this week was when we met two of our investigators named N
and E. We were contacting around the house of one referral who wasn't actually
interested and we knocked on their door. At first they just set up a kind of
shaky return appointment for the next Tuesday, but as we walked down the
sidewalk to knock on the next door N came out and invited us back to teach them
right then because they really weren't sure if they would be able to be there
for the appointment.
Possibly
the funnest story from this week is from Thursday. After lunch we were out
contacting when Elder Lopez called us. He said that he needed our address for
something from the office, so we gave it to him. I admit that I was a little
bit confused as to why the office somehow didn't have our address... When we
came home for dinner on later that afternoon we discovered the real reason
he'd wanted our address. We got to our door and it was covered with paper
hearts and scraps and other things. Hna Evans and Hna Blankinship had decorated
our door (and returned our cake pan). It turns out that Elder Lopez had been
getting it for Hna Evans and Hna Blankinship. We forgot to take a picture
before we took everything down, but I taped some of the things into my journal
afterward. They told us later that they got super lost in our
apartment building, just like we did the first time. :) We've discovered
that going the shortest way and not including the elevator (which is a
trial in and of itself) we have to go through 9 different doors to get
from our apartment to outside the building.
This week
I've been thinking and learning a lot about meekness and it's relationship to
receiving revelation. I read Elder Soares' talk from general conference again,
but it seemed so general that I wanted to do some more specific research. I
started in the topical guide, which lead me to the story of Moses. I read a lot
about Moses, because in Exodus there's a verse that says he was the meekest of
men so I was trying to figure out what that meant, and what made him so meek. I
came to the conclusion that the reason he was so meek was that he didn't
believe he could do anything on his own, but he didn't question at all that he
could do anything with the help of (and under the direction of) the Lord. If
you read the story of him freeing the Israelites it's clear that Moses didn't
come up with any of those things himself, he just did what the Lord directed
him to do from each time he needed to talk with Pharoah and what to say to him,
to raising his hand to the sky to call down whatever plague. It was interesting
because I've also been reading a little bit in Genesis about Abraham, and he
seems to be the same way. I think that they were meek because they were led by
the Spirit in everything that they did, but also, on the other hand, they were
led by the Spirit in all they did because they were meek. I feel like those two
things are integrally connected.
I am so
grateful for the opportunity to be a missionary. I know that this gospel truly
is the way to follow Jesus Christ and that it can bring more happiness than
anything else.
Love,
Hna Hardy
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