This week we had Zone Conference in Des Moines. A lot of friends from the mission are going home this transfer so they gave there departing testimony. It was so weird, I have served around all of them for pretty much my whole mission so it feels like I should be going home with them. Most of my mission friends are leaving me! haha It will be weird to not have them out here.
Other than that we didn't have any exchanges this week so we were able to work our area hard! We set a big goal to get 20 New people to teach this week. I've never gotten that many. But we let it motivate us all week and we knocked doors pretty much all week long! And Yesterday evening we had about 2 hours left in the week to find 5 more. We were praying hard and we ended up knocking on the door of a family of 3 and we started talking to them and their cat got ran over the night before so they were mourning over that. But they all became new people to teach and they are so awesome! My companion said we would only hit 19, but I said no! We then found 2 other people so we hit 20 exactly! Now this next week we are hoping to work with all the people we have and get them all to church! I'm super excited for this week! We have so many lessons scheduled!
I also got to interview someone for Baptism. It was so cool, he is from Liberia and graduated highschool here a couple of years ago. He is a stud and should be a missionary! He is getting baptized this weekend! We also played more tennis and watched all the hot air balloons! There was A TON! It’s like a national balloon festival they hold here every year!
Love you!
Elder Anderson
The Zone!
Elder Fox, Elder Barrett, Elder Lovin and I. They all go home next week!
Morning view! Balloons and cheerios!
Mt Pisgah!
Belief is the reason we go on a mission. It is the motive for preaching about Christ and sharing/Proclaiming his love. Faith is understanding we are children of God and our Heavenly Father. May this definition of faith bless you in your life. Faith is defined again and because faith has an inherent joy it gives us a solid foundation that we finally have the peace we have been searching for.
ReplyDelete"Many believer's feed themselves on what God hasn't done. When I dwell on what hasn't happened, I create the atmosphere for the spirit of offense to arise and to thrive. When I dwell on what hasn't happened, I legitimize unbelief. I live with a sense of justification, for not believing God.
Faith in the purest sense is the ceasing of resistance. even when there's no physical evidence, when the other evidence is present. Not feeding ourselves on what God hasn't done Faith in it's purest form is the absence of resistance
Heaven is a place where everyone is celebrated, some are more honored but everyone is celebrated. All men and all women shall be judged on the light which they have received. Heaven is a permissible culture. God's nature is eternally permissible. These statements protect us from credit.
Faith in the purest sense is the ceasing of resistance, even when there's no physical evidence, when the other evidence is present. Not feeding ourselves on what God hasn't done. Faith in it's purest form is the absence of resistance. Faith doesn't deny a problems existence, it denies it's influence. He or she was someone whom aridity and desolation never disturbed for he or she had a deeply rooted, and a vigorous faith.
Now we can act as we have always dreamed. Now we can act as we have always been. Now we can step into the light and gather the sunlight instead of blocking out our possibilities. Instead of blocking out our joy. Variety will bloom in/under the sun. We can show off our best, we can enjoy other people's gifts. We can blossom where we stand upon the joy that faith provides us. Upon the joy that faith inherently has, which blossoms the entire field of flowers"
.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDYaxabUfkA - The Definition of Faith