This week
was pretty good, I don't have a ton of time since I'm in a threesome
right now and we've had to do everything together, so I'll just throw in
some of the highlights and hope that you're okay with that!
This
week we didn't see a ton
of success with old investigators. They're all pretty busy with the
holidays coming up and we didn't get a chance to see a lot of them. The
ones we did see were for pretty quick visits. Some awesome things that
did happen though were that as we were porting a neighborhood a family
let us in and we got a return appointment with the tonight! Exciting
stuff. So that was our second family and we were pretty excited about it
since we didn't know if we were going to find another family (that has
been one of our biggest goals since in the mission we have the goal of
baptizing a family before Noel!) so, it was pretty sick when we found
out we found another family, we then had a rendez-vous with a guy named
Patrick in which I feel like we copied the district 2 where they wait a
million years before Remigo will finally pray. Patrick prayed and it was
amazing. That gave us three new ami's this week, which was more than we
had done in the past weeks and it gave us our goal, but the Lord
decided to bless us one more time before Elder Hall finished his mission
and at 8:00 on Sunday night
we went to see a member. It turns out that the members (who are a
pretty young couple) lives with the wife of the couples sister and her
husband. 5 new investigators in one week. That's almost double the
amount of investigators that we've gotten in the last 5 weeks. It was
amazing, partially because it's a ton and partially because they're all
SOLID investigators. Now I'm with the other Le Havre Elders to finish
out the transfer (which is Wednesday) because Elder Hall left early to
go on exchanges one last time before he takes the plane home. It was
awesome having such an experienced missionary as my first companion and
I'm pretty excited to meet my new Comp.
spiritual Enlightenment!
Before
my spiritual thought I think that it's always important to look for the
spirit and at least say a quick prayer in your heart to be able to
teach accord to that great and powerful presence that can make a person
who comes from humble places become wise. I've been listening to a lot
of general conference talks in any spare time i can find (which basicaly
is only when I eat) and before each talk I hear them talk a little
about how they pray the spirit to be with them, to help guide them to
help others. I have to say that i'm not the most spiritual of people or
the most knowledgeable. In fact, i don't think I'm the most anything of
anything, so as I write this I pray INCREDIBLY hard that I might get
just a little bit of inspiration! This week I feel like my spiritual
enlightenment has to do with gratitude. I feel like a lot of times in
life we go by doing pretty well and we just forget to be grateful for
everything we have. Throughout a six week period I feel like maybe the
reason that I was sent to this windy rainy little town to open a new
area is to understand what it was like to have nothing. I feel as though
those who have nothing may be the most blessed of all. How much easier
is it to be humble and grateful for the things that the Lord see's fit
to give us when we start with nothing? For me the answer is A LOT
EASIER! over the last six weeks me and Elder Hall worked our butts off
to make sure that we were progressing this part of the vineyard, but I
think I'll forever be grateful of the time when we had nothing. For
anybody I'm writing on a mission (who I know doesn't actually have time
to read this), i guess the application of this is to be grateful for
whatever you have, wherever you have it, and especially be grateful for
the blessing of nothingness. To start out from scratch is the Lords way
of telling you that he trusts you! For those of you in the "Real World" I
guess the application is a little bit tougher. I guess the way I would
think of it is to count your blessings. I feel almost like a hypocrite
since I never really did it myself, but all I can really say is that
blessings come in all shapes, colors, and sizes and when I look back at
everything I'm starting to recognize that I've had a lot more blessings
in my life than I would have thought. My advice in the coming week?
Count your blessings and say a quick prayer thanking God for each one.
And if you're truly grateful for the things that he's given you so far,
He might just give you some more :D!
Have an awesome week everybody,
Love,
Elder Michael Beneamato Bruno
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