Yaa Teeh!
This week is going to be titled, be careful what you PRAY for. :) (by the way the I'm emailing in the Aztec library and their is a guy right next to me who is listening to music who must be almost deaf because I can hear every word. He's listening to "That's What You Get" by Paramore, one of the bands I listened to back home. LOL :D )
Monday we got to go play some basketball up at the church. So other than that, for about a week now I have been praying for.... greater patience. Well, Elder Reeder finally opened up this week and hasn't every stopped talking since. :) So I have learned to be a little more patience, although I might need to learn to talk again because I haven't been doing much of that lately. haha. :P
So on Tuesday we had been asked by the bishop to go visit one of the less active members we had dropped about a month ago. This is the less active that has 6 Akita's. So we walked in and got swarmed. That.... was.... AWESOME!!!!!!! Although several of the dogs went on a licking spree, so my head got a bath/ shower... thing. :) It was fun. :)
Wednesday we got to go teach a lesson to a less active who has a problem about Christ. He doesn't understand how one person could take upon himself all of the sins of the whole world. We watch "Finding Faith in Christ" and he then understood it. He then just was wondering if it was true because it had happened a long time ago. So we shared some experience we'd had and about modern day prophets. Then we got to go out and take down some Russian Olive tree's, mostly by hand. When we almost done they brought out the hand saws. (*FACE PALM!!!*) Then we got to go do some clean up work with another less active and then we got to have a discussion about faith with him. That was an interesting lesson. I don't really know how to explain it. He hates the word faith. He feels it's a two edged sword. And E. Reeder and I have completely different thinking on how we should go about it.
Thursday we got to have zone training. E. Tolman, who was doing the training, did the whole thing on the Atonement of Jesus Christ. Talk about a powerful experience! The Atonement has really grown in meaning to me since missionary. Then we got to go visit a less active family. We just asked the question, "What is your relationship with God?" And because I asked the question I answered first and we went around the circle. The last person was the father of the family. He is a returned missionary and bore a really strong testimony that the gospel is true and that we need to watch ourselves when we get off our missions.
Friday was really rough. We went back to the less active who hates the word faith. E. Reeder just tried to tell him everything that he needed to do to get a testimony, even after the man had already he'd tried it for the past 11 years. E. Reeder just wouldn't stop. That was really frustrating and we had a little argument after that discussion.
Saturday was a day of learning and counsel. So we had a lesson with another less active and E. Reeder was dead set on giving her a blessing to heal her completely. I suggested that a blessing of comfort would be better but he said no and proceeded with the blessing. After the lesson I called the Zone Leaders and went over to their house and sent E Reeder with another missionary to our other appointments. I talked to the Zone Leaders about what was going on and that really helped. They gave me some idea's on what I could do to better myself and the companionship. We also scheduled an appointment where I could go talk to President Batt. (That's happening in about 3 hours from now.)
Sunday was really cool. Both of our recent converts got to talk about how they were converted. I really love these people. I'm so grateful that the Lord sent me here to them. Their is now where else I would rather be.
Thanks for all your support. Prayers would be greatly appreciated. Until next time, Hagonet!
Elder Bryson Chipman
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