Becoming a Missionary

My beloved brethren, you and I, today and always, are to bless all peoples in all the nations of the earth. You and I, today and always, are to bear witness of Jesus Christ and declare the message of the Restoration. You and I, today and always, are to invite all to receive the ordinances of salvation. Proclaiming the gospel is not a part-time priesthood obligation. It is not simply an activity in which we engage for a limited time or an assignment we must complete as members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Rather, missionary work is a manifestation of our spiritual identity and heritage. We were foreordained in the premortal existence and born into mortality to fulfill the covenant and promise God made to Abraham. We are here upon the earth at this time to magnify the priesthood and to preach the gospel. That is who we are, and that is why we are here--today and always.
- by Elder David A. Bednar
From The Ensign, Nov. 2005, Page 47

Monday, August 13, 2012

Working Hard

8-13

I’ve been doing really well this week :)

My companion has some heath issues, as I may have mentioned before, but we just keep working hard and seeing success. I’ve come to understand and know that companionship harmony is mucho importante, especially when you want to see the work move forward. I think that the Lord is blessing me for my diligence :) Although I can always do better; I feel that the hard work is once again paying for itself and that’s only on the mission.  Imagine all of the blessings about to come. Of course, we don’t do it for the blessings, but it’s a benefit to being obedient to the Lord!

So this a week ago tonight we picked up a sweet investigator! She is one of the only black people in Jurupa and she is legit! She is about grandma age and her friend is a member. We went over to her house to teach The Ward Mission Process lessons the 5.5.5. I’m not sure if that’s broadly recognized by members outside of ward counsel but it should be! Anyway, we went to her house and she had told us there would be a non-member there. Well, the lesson went really well.  We taught lesson 1, the Restoration, and the Spirit was so strong.  When we were resisting the vision that Joseph Smith had she was in awe AND Loretta is it so interested! We gave her a Book of Mormon and she asked us if it was okay that she comes back and listens to more of the lessons :) Of course! Lol

Then the Valencia family, the younger couple, JR and Monica they are progressing right along! We went and taught them at the end of the day last night and they are doing so well! They keep on surprising us with all of these random things.  Like JR has cut back on his own with some of his issues and they are just working right along. Last night we taught the Word of Wisdom, committed them to stop, gave both of them blessings and also taught the restoration.  I’m excited to see them continue on their path towards baptism.  We shared with them a sweet analogy that the Spanish missionaries taught me about setting a date. “So imagine that you are in the middle of an ocean in a row boat and you don’t see any land anywhere. How fast are you going to paddle and in what direction? Now imagine that you see an island or a piece of land in the distance! How fast are you going to paddle now? And in what direction? ha ha Yeah. They loved the analogy and they agreed to set a date.  We set up another meeting with them this Wednesday :) it will be awesome! :) Anyway so we are doing way well and I’m so excited to see the work moving forward! :)

Well that should be about it for this week!

Love you! Have an awesome day and week! :)

Till next time - Elder McNew
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