I will be staying in the same area with Elder Lehmuller! Woot woot! It will be good to carry on the work that we have been doing for the past while. We are getting 25 new missionaries tomorrow, creating 11 areas, and the total number of missionaries will now be 194. As far as the zone goes, we are getting two new areas and splitting one of the districts to have 3 districts now, covering 2 stakes - Boise Central and Boise West. Cray-zay!
Now that that's over, Hello everyone! How's it going? :)
This week went pretty well! The whole mission is still in kinda upheaval with so many missionaries coming and areas splitting and others moving and etc, etc. Building time! It's good to see so many missionaries coming in and moving the work forward. On we go to victory with saturating the Boise area with missionaries! It's kinda funny to go to Wal-mart and see probably 8 or more companionships all shopping at the same time. Probably more. We passed someone last week and heard them say "Holy cow, they're taking over the store!" Watch out, world! The gospel's coming through!
We got some new people to start teaching, hooray! Just about everyone we are teaching are in some sort of a part-member family, and everyone has had some interaction with the church at some point. It's fun to be able to teach them all and show them how this gospel will really bless their lives! Sometimes it is hard to not just yell out to the world "Why don't you understand?? This is so awesome, and if you will just try it out, it will change your life forever!" Patience is a huge key, and I am definitely learning more of it. :)
Cool miracle of the week came when we went to go see one guy Ken that we had talked to before, but he wasn't there. I really didn't know what to do next, and our list of ideas of what to do was dwindling, but we decided to go walk up the street to contact another family. They weren't home either, but we saw Ken drive by as we were going, and then as we went back, I realized that there were people outside of another family's house that we had tried a bunch of times before to go by with no success. So we got to meet them, and we have an appointment to go back next week. And we got to talk to Ken. Super cool! It's amazing how the Lord can make good things happen out of our meager efforts to do good.
The lesson for me this week was on attitude. We gave the lesson in gospel principles about work, and one of the points was that we need to have a good attitude towards the work we have to do. The whole lesson was a good reminder to me that yes, work is hard, and yes, there are going to be times that are just terrible and everything goes wrong, but even so I need to have a good attitude towards the work we do.
This morning I thought about Adam, who was cast out of the amazing garden of Eden to have to work hard to grow his own food. I bet there were times when he got down and depressed, times that he just hated doing so much work and seeing such little success, and times when he thought that if he had just done something differently, he could have stayed in the garden. However, when he was taught about the gospel and the plan of salvation, that perspective caused him to cry, "Blessed be the name of God, for because of my transgression my eyes are opened, and in this life I shall have joy." (Moses 5:10) We can find joy, too! And the hard times, the times of trial, the times we make mistakes can all be used to help us to find more joy, IF we choose to let them do so. That IF is the hard part. So, I will definitely be working on how I can improve my attitude this week. Super hard, but super worth it.
Quote of the week before I go: "You can act your way into a new way of thinking faster than you can think your way into a new way of acting." Don't know who said it, but I love it.
Love you all! Have a fantastic week!
--Elder Usevitch
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