Hey Guys!
Another week, like always. Still weird here.
Some pretty good things happened this week, also some not
good things. Just my overall attitude of this week was good. I’m really trying
to be more consecrated as a Missionary. I’m trying to get rid of all of the
things that would hold me back. Our president really stressed this when I came
out. It’s just like consecrated oil. We are set apart to do one thing. Serve
the Lord. Nothing else. Not to chill with members for two hours or waste time.
And that requires a lot of sacrifice. I have to put my pride aside and forget
about myself to do what the Lord wants me to do. So that’s what I’ve been
trying to do. But it’s not easy. I see how much I need to work on and it sucks.
But I know that that attitude will help a lot.
We did some pretty awesome things this week. So our
teaching pool is shrinking by the day. Our people just keep dropping us. And I
think it’s a lack of effort on our part to keep them on track. We sometimes
talk to our investigators only once a week. And the adversary can do a lot in a
week. So we’ve been trying to find more people and to get more members involved
in finding them. So we did a ton of finding this week. But it was good to see
the result that came from it. We found a couple new people and are still
finding more. We are really working hard to get the members to do their
missionary work. If we can get them to reach out to their family and friends
then we could have so many more people to teach. We just need to inspire our
members. Our Bishop and Ward Mission Leader are a huge help in all of this.
They love the idea of members doing missionary work. So we have made some
pretty sweet plans to talk to the ward about missionary work. We are speaking
the Sunday after next on Missionary work and then the fast Sunday of February
we are doing a ward fast for missionary work. We are just gonna bring the house
down with the spirit to get them to invite their friends!
We also had a zone training this week. That was great. We
talked about a few specific things. We are trying to bring back more obedience
and involvement with members, which was perfect because that was already on my
mind. We also talked about repentance and how we can more fully use the
atonement. It was awesome; I felt the spirit so strong. I also want to improve
my teaching as well. And learning about the atonement will really help me with
that.
The town is still weird and it still smells. But I love
this ward. Oh man, they are great. In the midst of weirdos you create some
freakin cool people. And the youth in this town are crazy! I always hear about Mormon
kids that I know smoking and sleeping around, it’s ridiculous. Maybe it’s like
that everywhere and I’m just used to Mormonville Snowflake. I’m just glad I had
amazing friends growing up that were good examples to me. I think there are
some people here that I will have to visit after my mission for sure. Sister
Maddock is the bomb. I think she will have to approve of my future wife, when I
get there. And the stories of half of these members are amazing. So like half
of our ward is converts right? So they all have the most spiritual stories of
how they found the gospel. Some of these people were homeless, on drugs, teen
pregnancies, you name it. But its soooo cool to see how they've become such
righteous people. I feel so spoiled when I listen to their stories. I’m like, I
never had anything close to that... So I need to be more thankful more often.
Anyways, that’s all!
But I’m thankful for you all! Thanks for being the best.
I love you all.
-Elder Schneider
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