According to our numbers, this week was the worst week of my mission. According to how I feel, this week still wasn't great. We only had two lessons for the WHOLE WEEK. We had to drop some more of our investigators so now we only have two investigators. The investigators we are teaching are young couple named Ricardo and Melissa. Ricardo is a member but he's inactive and Melissa isn't a member. Ricardo is a mechanic. They just got married a couple months ago. They're super cool and fun to teach, but they still haven't been able to come to church. Also we're teaching an older lady named Alicia. We've only taught her one time but she accepted a bautismal date. But we haven't been able to teach her for like 2 weeks. We will see. We worked so hard this week. I came home everyday with blisters on my feet. We found a couple more people to teach but every appointment we set up with them fell through. We've both been in this area for so long that we've hit a roadblock and we don't know what we should do. Sometimes as missionaries we feel as if we're not good enough. And it's true. We have so many faults. We're young, inexperienced, don't know the language, or the doctrine. Half the time we have no clue what we're doing, we just wing it. But the Lord has promised that if we give him everything we have, he'll make up the rest. We have to have faith. And that doesn't just mean believing that something will happen. Faith is an action word. You have have faith that something will happen, and then go out do the things necessary to make it happen. And that's really all we can do in our area right now. We just have to ask the Lord for help, have faith that he will help, and go out and work to make it happen. That's all for this week. I love you all!!! -Elder Anderson |
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Marilyn Shankula
1/26/2015 01:18:37 pm
Hi sweet Josh,
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Marilyn Shankula
1/26/2015 01:22:54 pm
Dear Josh, I am sure that Joseph Smith felt young and inexperienced at times too. It is obvious that the Lord has a great deal of trust in young men!
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Starla
1/26/2015 10:15:27 pm
Elder, you got this! You and your companion are out sharing the love of Christ and by your service, you both are witnessing to us back here that effort regardless of outcome matters. Your dedication and love of these people is tremendous. Go serve, smile and know with a truthful heart, Heavenly Father and his son is with you always.
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