Hello
Family!
I hadnt
even realized that Bradly has already finished the MTC and is now out in North
Dakota. Elder D'Vaz (who will be my comp for the rest of the week until I get
my new comp) has a sister who will be going to the North Dakota mission in
October so that would be pretty cool if they somehow met.
And Emily
is just finishing her short stay in the MTC and will be in the field quite
soon. They will both be going through the same things that I went through in
Florida experiencing the ups and downs of the mission. The ups far
outwaying the bad.
This is going
to be a veryshort email since this week has been a strange week due to the fact
that I was not in my area much at all. I think I said last week that one
of the Zone leaders had to go to Bangalore to get surgery so we were stuck with
him this entire week as he recovers. So, we split the days we would work in
each others area since Elder Johannson will not be in his area next week
leaving his area without missionaries for awhile. The whole zone is kind of
being affected with this but we are surviving.
His area is
quite far away so we spent a lot of time traveling on bus and walking around
visiting those in his branch. We had lots of fun together with the three of us.
We were able to visit most of our investigators the few times we worked in
our area and had some great lessons with them. Charles is doing awesome
and is geting ready fast for his baptism. And we also started to teach a
part member family, working with their daughter to be baptized.
Today
finally came when I had to send of Elder Monk away as he left for the
Philippines this afternoon. He, along with the Elder Johannson and Elder
Aldridge. It was a very fun 2 transfers I had with Elder Monk and the
All-American Zone. I'm grateful for the time we had and the improvements we
have seen with the branch. Now I'm with Elder D'vaz and the 2 of us will be
together taking care of 3 branches/areas... so this will also be a strange and
interesting experience as we await our new companions sometime next
week. I don't know who he will be btw.
Something
that I loved and have learned this week is the scripture Alma 31: 31-33.
31 O Lord, my heart is exceedingly sorrowful, wilt thou comfort my soul in Christ. O Lord, wilt thou grant unto me that I may have strength, that I may suffer with patience these afflictions which shall come upon me, because of the iniquity of this people.
32 O Lord, wilt thou comfort my soul, and give unto me success, and alm=so my fellow laborers who are with me, yea, Ammon, and Aaron, and Omner, and also Amulek and Zeezrom, and also my two sons, yea, even all these wilt thou comfort their souls in Christ.
33 Wilt thou grant unto them that they may have strength, that they may bear their afflictions which shall come upon them because of the iniquities of this people.
Now notice
that Alma in verse 31 is praying not to take his burdens away but to grant him
strength that he might overcome them. As I was thinking I agree that through
prayer, God will not take our burdens away but will CHANGE us to be able to overcome
them. We will receive the necessary change in our hearts that give us the
strength to become more like Him.
Thank you
everyone for you love and support, have a great week!
-Elder
Conrad
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