Alma 17: 11. And the Lord said unto them also: Go forth among the Lamanites, thy brethren, and establish my word; yet ye shall be patient in long-suffering and afflictions, that ye may show forth good examples unto them in me, and I will make an instrument of thee in my hands unto the salvation of many souls.
I did my first training during district meeting this week. I had one morning to prepare because Elder Ihler needed someone to do it and no one else would so I decided I would do it. Our President and the Zone leaders were there for interviews, so I was a little nervous. I think it went well! I was just excited that people participated and it lasted the entire 45 minutes. The training was on, How the Book of Mormon teaches repentance, so super easy! Repentance isn't just abstaining from sin but it is changing our views on God, life and self. I see why we can all repent everyday. Once I was done with the training I got to go into the my interview with President Stone and I shared with him my repentance scripture that I like to use when I teach and it is Jacob 6:5. It is super awesome so go read it. He also told me I am going to have a new companion for the next exchange. I will be sad to leave Elder Ihler. He has taught me exact obedience as a missionary and how to live the missionary life. He is really good at coming up with lesson plans and trainings so hopefully I can learn a bit more before one of us leaves.
Little bit about the work this week. We did service with Van to destroy a room in the nursing home. He opened up to us a lot! He will take sometime to get to church. He believes the Book of Mormon to be the word of God but he is torn with family. We ran into another lady who just had a member of the family pass away. We shared with her the plan of salvation and she was telling us how she has been praying to know what church to join. Her brother is a minister in a Pentecostal church so that will be hard. The Lord shows us miracles everyday! Not only was that lesson awesome but one of the other investigators we were trying is actually reading the Book of Mormon! We are so close to having several people commit to a baptismal date. There is always that factor called agency that they can choose to accept or reject our message. The Lord will always be with us when we preach the gospel!
I want to express so much gratitude to my mom for sending me that amazing book! Thank you to all who wrote me your testimonies and words of encouragement. It has given me confidence and it brought tears to my eyes seeing how The Gospel has effected each of your lives. I will try and respond to each of you who wrote me. Thank you so much again!
Elder Quiring
P.S. I have really random thought processes and I will try and write them down in my notes and share them more at the end like this. 2 funny things stand out to me this week. First, the sisters missionaries here say that I remind them of Andy from The Office, minus the pride. Second, as we were driving to an appointment we saw a man mowing his lawn and we waved to him. That doesn't sound that funny but what happened next made me pee my pants! He waved back but it was so unexpectedly happy that we about crashed because we were so shocked and laughing too hard! His face went from board to cartoon enthusiastic. It was so weird.... haha!
P.P.S I went on exchanges this week with Calvert City
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