It's a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood!
Date
February 29, 2016
Area
Flower Mound 3rd Ward
Companion
Elder Cody Griffin
It's a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood!
Man o man it has already been another week! But hey, we are getting
into March! It is really crazy! I really like the month of March...
... For, reasons haha... Man I have no idea why I was writing like
that. I must be in like a good mood or something!
This week has been one of the best weeks I have had in a while! I have
been able to teach more this week than I have in past weeks and I have
been able to see the missionary work in this are improve just in the
short time I have been here. I don't think that it was a result of me
or my efforts solely but of the relationship that Elder Griffin and I
have with each other and the Lord.
FIrst off in this week, we biked. A lot. Not just because we're in a
bike area but because we just went all over the place haha. We also
had zone conference this last week and there will be a little bit more
on that later. Honestly I don't have very many stories like last weeks
so I will just let you in on a couple cool things that happened this
week I guess... 😆
So we have been working with this young man named Chris A. I say his
initinal because there are multiple people we're teaching named
"Chris." So he is 14 and searching for the truth (sounds a little
familiar right?). He has really liked meeting with us and enjoys the
Book of Mormon. We met with him this last Friday wiht a member family
named the Eastham's. Chris clicked with the Easthams right off the
bat, it was great! We taught him the first part of the Plan of
Salvation and he understood most of it. When we taught him about the
godhead though, that is when we could see some confusion start. He has
grown up with the Holy Trinity being God. He said that. he would need
to spend a lot of time over the weekend trying to seek God's will. We
have had some really beast lessons with him where the spirit has been
there. He will take some time but I think he will find the right
place.
We also met with a guy named Braden. Braden is pretty cool. He has his
little odditities but he is great. He is going to culinary school in
Dallas and because they do a lot of cooking there he brings stuff
home. Well when we stopped by he invited us in, talked Old Testament
us for a few minutes then offerf us food. There is an unspoken rule on
the mission andit is a pretty inmportant one: DO NOT turn down free
food. It was so ridiculously good food! We asked him wha tit was and
he said it was rabbit with rice and other assorted veggies. Basically
it was a stirfry but with rabbit. It was good. I am sorry Hailey and
Hannah.
That was really it for those stories...
I have had some inspirations come to me lately that I have had
repeatedly I the past but they were kinda re-realized or
re-recognized. I have been thinking a lot about repentance lately and
how I feel spiritually. I have often wondered about if I am truly
getting a fresh start and renewing my covenants when I partake of the
sacrament. I decided I would pay close attention to my desires,
attitudes and feelings during the sacrament yesterday. I did that and
I felt a desire to overcome sin. I felt a desire to become a better
missionary and become more consecrated and learn more about the Savior
and His gospel. I realized at that moment that the confirmation that I
had renewed my covenants was the heightened desire, it was the deeper
longing for conversion and understanding. My thoughts also went back
to Sister Christofferson when she shared the story about the woman in
debt and the oil. The woman received as much as she was prepared for,
a concept that President Ames has taught us very well and a practice I
will keep for the rest of my life. In the same light, when am prepared
to have my desires increased, I will receive as much as I am ready
for. Same thing with strength. If my intent is true, then I will
receive a enough strength to overcome.
I also loved zone conference, as always. Since last Tuesday we have
had much better planning sessions and lessons. We have been focusing a
lot more on connecting the dots and showing how all of the lessons
interconnect to the people were teaching. It has honestly been really
fun trying to figure it out!
I am loving Flower Mound and I am starting to truly find joy in my
missionary service again by striving to lose myself everyday. I am
finding that being tired at the end of the day is awesome, until the
next morning when you are still tired haha. But "we should waste and
wear out our lives in bringing to light all the hidden things of
darkness, wherein we know them; and they are truly manifest from
heaven" right?
Keep the Faith and Hurrah for Israel!
Love your missionary son and brother, Elder Jefferies
into March! It is really crazy! I really like the month of March...
... For, reasons haha... Man I have no idea why I was writing like
that. I must be in like a good mood or something!
This week has been one of the best weeks I have had in a while! I have
been able to teach more this week than I have in past weeks and I have
been able to see the missionary work in this are improve just in the
short time I have been here. I don't think that it was a result of me
or my efforts solely but of the relationship that Elder Griffin and I
have with each other and the Lord.
FIrst off in this week, we biked. A lot. Not just because we're in a
bike area but because we just went all over the place haha. We also
had zone conference this last week and there will be a little bit more
on that later. Honestly I don't have very many stories like last weeks
so I will just let you in on a couple cool things that happened this
week I guess... 😆
So we have been working with this young man named Chris A. I say his
initinal because there are multiple people we're teaching named
"Chris." So he is 14 and searching for the truth (sounds a little
familiar right?). He has really liked meeting with us and enjoys the
Book of Mormon. We met with him this last Friday wiht a member family
named the Eastham's. Chris clicked with the Easthams right off the
bat, it was great! We taught him the first part of the Plan of
Salvation and he understood most of it. When we taught him about the
godhead though, that is when we could see some confusion start. He has
grown up with the Holy Trinity being God. He said that. he would need
to spend a lot of time over the weekend trying to seek God's will. We
have had some really beast lessons with him where the spirit has been
there. He will take some time but I think he will find the right
place.
We also met with a guy named Braden. Braden is pretty cool. He has his
little odditities but he is great. He is going to culinary school in
Dallas and because they do a lot of cooking there he brings stuff
home. Well when we stopped by he invited us in, talked Old Testament
us for a few minutes then offerf us food. There is an unspoken rule on
the mission andit is a pretty inmportant one: DO NOT turn down free
food. It was so ridiculously good food! We asked him wha tit was and
he said it was rabbit with rice and other assorted veggies. Basically
it was a stirfry but with rabbit. It was good. I am sorry Hailey and
Hannah.
That was really it for those stories...
I have had some inspirations come to me lately that I have had
repeatedly I the past but they were kinda re-realized or
re-recognized. I have been thinking a lot about repentance lately and
how I feel spiritually. I have often wondered about if I am truly
getting a fresh start and renewing my covenants when I partake of the
sacrament. I decided I would pay close attention to my desires,
attitudes and feelings during the sacrament yesterday. I did that and
I felt a desire to overcome sin. I felt a desire to become a better
missionary and become more consecrated and learn more about the Savior
and His gospel. I realized at that moment that the confirmation that I
had renewed my covenants was the heightened desire, it was the deeper
longing for conversion and understanding. My thoughts also went back
to Sister Christofferson when she shared the story about the woman in
debt and the oil. The woman received as much as she was prepared for,
a concept that President Ames has taught us very well and a practice I
will keep for the rest of my life. In the same light, when am prepared
to have my desires increased, I will receive as much as I am ready
for. Same thing with strength. If my intent is true, then I will
receive a enough strength to overcome.
I also loved zone conference, as always. Since last Tuesday we have
had much better planning sessions and lessons. We have been focusing a
lot more on connecting the dots and showing how all of the lessons
interconnect to the people were teaching. It has honestly been really
fun trying to figure it out!
I am loving Flower Mound and I am starting to truly find joy in my
missionary service again by striving to lose myself everyday. I am
finding that being tired at the end of the day is awesome, until the
next morning when you are still tired haha. But "we should waste and
wear out our lives in bringing to light all the hidden things of
darkness, wherein we know them; and they are truly manifest from
heaven" right?
Keep the Faith and Hurrah for Israel!
Love your missionary son and brother, Elder Jefferies
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