I think I have forgotten how to be cool..ish Let me explain…I absolutely stink at tracting. I get so nervous. I just need to know how to be myself. Does that make sense? Is that even answerable? Because I really just want to be myself, I just want to know how. Sometimes I feel like I still can’t quite be myself around other missionaries. some days I really feel like a greenie around other missionaries. It can be annoying. Ya’dalah. (from what I’ve heard, Ya’dalah is the Navajo version of “eye carrumba” [probably not how you spell it, but you get the picture {it’s not a picture, it’s a sound}]
I have completely forgotten where the rest of the letter was originally intended to go, so bear with me. Oh well, I can say this. I loved that picture book of the family that you sent me! It’s awesome remembering what you all look like! (I haven’t forgotten). No wonder I need to remember what it’s like to be cool. . . I am a dork!
Well, on a different subject, I've been listening to a recording of a brother Skousen talk about his mission and the atonement and the priesthood and it has made my brain explode at least twice today! You know how I keep remembering songs and stuff to put on a USB? Well make the USB a big one, if you please, send out a whole bunch of your favorite appropriate mission music and add that talk and other fire talks that you guys like would be the most amazing Christmas gift ever. I can't wait for general conference!
July 13, 2016
I haven't even told you about the zone conference yet! But I will tell you some things now.
It was on July 6 (the day the world looked forward to in the year of 1997) and it was an Gallup. Two big zones were there, and I got to meet some good missionaries and hear some of their crazy stories. I really like something Pres. Adam shared about missionary work. It was a quote from Pres. Monson that said something like “Heavenly Father will shape the back to fit the load of whatever we are called to do.” he doesn't fit in the calling to us, he fits us to the calling. I love that. At the end of zone conference Sister Adams wished me a happy birthday! Honestly I felt like a celebrity had just complimented me on being born!
The week afterwards were really rough. I was getting myself down a lot. But then we had a lesson with an investigator who is still reading and praying despite her busy schedule and taking her husband to the hospital for surgery… it was amazing to listen to her talk about how much she truly cares about finding the right church.
Things have just been really starting to look up lately during that week where we only taught a couple lessons my outlook on everything was just terrible. I felt in adequate at everything and felt like I wasn't getting along with my trainer. The blessings from fast offerings started pouring in! My companion taught me all this cool stuff about cars and how diesels work. We started learning and practicing Navajo together and we started becoming like friends! Even better today we taught our first lesson to a couple and at the beginning of the restoration lesson, before we started talking about prophets, the Lady asked a question about baptism, so at the end when we asked both her and her husband if they would like to be baptized and they said they totally would! If they found out the book of Mormon is true. And they already really want to read it and asked us for our favorite parts from it. Amazing! The field is actually white and ready to harvest! *Dances like a crazy tooth madman.*
This work is amazing it can be so rough and difficult some days I just want to go home and take a nap!
DON’T DO IT! KEEP WORKING! ENDURE! IT’S GREAT IN THE END!
Well I love and miss you all so much I know I say that all the time - it's true and I will continue to say it.