Dear Family,
Elder Wendt said that he doesn't ever
want to leave Utah after his mission, which is too bad! I love seeing new places
and learning about different areas. It's always an adventure!
In our mission, we go to the temple the 2nd to last week of the mission..
So on June 17th, at 7:00 we will meet up in Liverpool, and I will go with my
group to the temple! It's crazy to think about... Elder Wendt will be staying
with the missionaries in Liverpool throughout that day, and we will get back
from Palmyra at about 8:15 that night. We're going to do a temple session, then
tour the Church History Sights. There's also a few mission traditions, like
racing up the Hill Cumorah. I better start conditioning now! :) I'm pretty
excited to go to the temple again. Brother Huller, a member that takes good care
of us, has done over 800 Endowment Sessions in his life, and his goal is to get
to 1000. That is crazy! I've only done 3! He definitely set a good example
there.
Elder Wendt and I are doing good! We are seeing small, simple, consistent
improvement in our area which is good. This past week we picked up a new
investigator- A man named Pat who was a college professor at LeMoyne University,
a catholic college nearby. He's a really cool guy and seems really interested in
our message. The funny thing is, he told us that he typically isn't interested
in religion after bad experiences he had in his life, but he still wants to talk
with us! We answered some questions about the Plan of Salvation and gave him a
Book of Mormon. He then informed us about the Triple Crown, horse racing, and
his favorite horse, Secretariat. Talking with Pat helped me realized that there
is a lot in the world that I have NO clue about. I still have a lot to
learn...
Training is a lot of fun at the end of the mission.. It's funny to look
back at when I was being trained and see what I was like compared to now. I
remember feeling ready to take over once the Elder Baird situation was over, but
also being really excited and worried about what would happen. It's starting to
get to that point for Elder Wendt! I'm having him take the lead in planning and
a lot of the work. He is more of a white personality in the color code, so it's
quite a bit different than when I was with Elder Bybee (who was more of a red
personality) and Elder Sedgwick (who was more of a blue personality). Things are
going well though and we will continue to work! Talking with people is the
biggest thing we're trying to work on. It's kinda hard to walk up to a random
person and try to figure out how to share the Gospel with them.. But it's
exciting!
This week should be really good. We are having a District Activity today,
then doing an exchange until Wednesday, then we have Zone Training Meeting, as
well as 2 Church Tours later that night, and several lessons and service
opportunities already set up! It's really nice when we plan things in advance
and have a good week already set up in advance. Planning ahead makes life a lot
easier!
I want to bear my testimony to all of you about the value of setting
productive goals, then working hard to accomplish them! I know that as we all
identify specific things we desire to accomplish, then do everything we can to
accomplish them, as well as calling upon the powers of Heaven to aid us, we can
accomplish miracles. It takes a lot of hard work, as well as focus to do this,
but it will make us much more productive in our lives. There is a talk on
LDS.org titled "Personal
Time Management: One Key to a Leader's Effectivness" that I have learned a
lot from. This is one part of the article that I really like: "There are some
basic principles and fundamental concepts of time utilization that are very
helpful in learning to manage our time better. The first is the concept that we
don’t really manage time but rather we manage ourselves in the amount of time we
have. So we are really addressing the subject of self-management.
We must learn to operate most effectively in the uniform allotment of
time each of us has received.
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