Been a good week! We had Mission Leadership Council and Zone Training
Meeting this week! SO it was fun. Lots to do and prepare. Got it all
done and had some good meetings, also met with and had the chance to
help train all the ward mission leaders in the Penrith stake! At Zone
training meeting I gave a training about things that changed my mission
and included a new smash approach the city zone has been trying out. It
is all focused on helping people to understand Our Purpose as
missionaries "To Evermore effectively invite others to come unto Christ
by helping them to receive the restored Gospel through faith in Jesus
Christ and his Atonement, Repentance, Baptism, receiving the Gift of the
Holy Ghost, and Enduring to the end." You introduce yourself as a
representative of Jesus Christ, state you purpose, and then ask if they
have faith, if they feel they have repented, and so forth. Super Smash!
The missionaries love it and they say they are feeling the spirit all
day. Fantastic! There was a big missionary fireside last night. SO I got
to see all these missionaries it was fun. A few weren't able to bring
investigators... so they couldn't come but it was fun to see those who
were there! A good reunion with ma Boy! Elder Nathan and my "Grandson"
Elder Kafusi! Took a bunch of pictures with missionaries... this one had
the most people in it so I included this one. I also thought it would
be fun to take a picture of us going to the library this morning... so
here ya go! Hope all is well!
My core experience with God this week has been rediscovering my mission miracles! I have been writing my report to turn in at the end of my mission. I have been blown away at the amount of experiences I can recall and the spirit I still feel from them. Some more memorable and changing than others. However, all bring the same happy and joyous feeling. I am grateful for the chance I have to write and reflect. It helps me realize what I can do now and it strengthens and builds my testimony stronger, even though it's my own stories! ha. I can see the Lords hand behind everything in the spirit has brought back to my remembrance to write. The Lord chastens and reproves, he shows tender mercy, then he refines, and the spirit performs through us. The missionary spirit is amazing and something we take for granted all too often! In fact, it is something we lose or lose sight of all too often.. We can and DO see miracles everyday if we are willing to follow. "What more can he say than to [us] he has said..."
My practice in teaching as Jesus taught this week came from a call to help out in Primary! It was fun to see their programs running and feel the fun that they experience in their childhood spirit. We were able to teach about the Gospel: Faith, Repentance, Baptism, The Gift of the Holy Ghost, and Enduring to the End. It is challenging to teach simply but to give them more than they already know... the spirit works so easily with a young willing child. I was reminded of one of my favorite songs..."He said Suffer the Children to come to me." The savior was the master and he LOVED the children. I was grateful for this reminder and experience. To be the Lords representative doing as he himself did...
If I had only one sentence to transform someones view of the Gospel I would say something like:... The Gospel is not meant to restrict because the Grand Creator, God, is all about Freedom!
I Love you all more than you know. Thank you for your examples to me. I am Grateful!
Love,
Elder Ford
"Come What May & Love It!"
-Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin
"Out of my stoney griefs Bethel I'll raise!"
-Hymn No. 100
My core experience with God this week has been rediscovering my mission miracles! I have been writing my report to turn in at the end of my mission. I have been blown away at the amount of experiences I can recall and the spirit I still feel from them. Some more memorable and changing than others. However, all bring the same happy and joyous feeling. I am grateful for the chance I have to write and reflect. It helps me realize what I can do now and it strengthens and builds my testimony stronger, even though it's my own stories! ha. I can see the Lords hand behind everything in the spirit has brought back to my remembrance to write. The Lord chastens and reproves, he shows tender mercy, then he refines, and the spirit performs through us. The missionary spirit is amazing and something we take for granted all too often! In fact, it is something we lose or lose sight of all too often.. We can and DO see miracles everyday if we are willing to follow. "What more can he say than to [us] he has said..."
My practice in teaching as Jesus taught this week came from a call to help out in Primary! It was fun to see their programs running and feel the fun that they experience in their childhood spirit. We were able to teach about the Gospel: Faith, Repentance, Baptism, The Gift of the Holy Ghost, and Enduring to the End. It is challenging to teach simply but to give them more than they already know... the spirit works so easily with a young willing child. I was reminded of one of my favorite songs..."He said Suffer the Children to come to me." The savior was the master and he LOVED the children. I was grateful for this reminder and experience. To be the Lords representative doing as he himself did...
If I had only one sentence to transform someones view of the Gospel I would say something like:... The Gospel is not meant to restrict because the Grand Creator, God, is all about Freedom!
I Love you all more than you know. Thank you for your examples to me. I am Grateful!
Love,
Elder Ford
"Come What May & Love It!"
-Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin
"Out of my stoney griefs Bethel I'll raise!"
-Hymn No. 100
p.s. I am getting so fat... :( ... hahaha
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