Quién se dará cuenta de lo que he cambiado en esta semana... Adam, seguramente, pero no se enoje, es por ''kicks and giggles'', nada más. =P
A'ight, now that I've confused all you ladies and
gents (not Gentiles) that still haven't figured out google translate, or
can't understand the badly translated-ness that is google translate,
let's get into the normal news of the week!
Well, this week was pretty normal until the end.
Honestly we had some of our good days, some weird days, some tough days,
and a cool day where I ran and did two interviews for both of the other
companionships in our district.
I don't have too much time this week, but I do want
to share a quick message that I sort of shared with my Dad just now in
an email, it's something I've been thinking a lot on lately. I think
that sometimes, and this week was one of those times, we just start to
get into the routine of things in the mission (and at home, so don't
relax just yet!) and that after a while, that routine starts to turn
into a rut. If I remember the meaning of that word right, it's basically
that we get stuck with the same old same old, we aren't seeing results,
and we don't quite know how to get out of it.
Well, as I was saying, that's what happened to us
this week. We realized near the end that we were doing the same things
every day without many results, and it reminded me of something we
learned in the Zone Conference of about a week ago. Something I SHOULD
have learned well from that moment, but that I just didn't quite think
to apply until after learning the hard way. What one of the APs said was
that we have to be ''fishers of men'', like the Apostles that Jesus
called. But that sometimes, even though we're out in the street,
knocking doors and working hard physically, we're really not fishing. He
pointed out that it's like the difference of the type of fisherman that
go out early and put their hooks in the water and wait patiently and do
all that's possible, trying new hooks, new baits, etc. until they get a
good catch, and the other type that gets out on his boat early, but
just sits there thinking and fiddling with the gear for a good while,
throws out the line wherever, and starts in on his lunch or something,
without really focusing on the catch.
Sometimes as missionaries we're like that. We go
out, and we're technically ''on the boat'' from early in the morning
until night, but we don't get the same catch as other missionaries and
we wonder why. Well, the reason is that we can be on the boat without
fishing, and we can even throw in a hook and sit and wait, but it really
still isn't fishing. We have to be (returning to the missionary side of
the parable =D) talking to everyone, using the members, asking for references, planning activities, and
many more things that a good missionary days. Well, to be honest we can
get a lot better at that. So this Sunday, my companion and I had a good
talk and put a lot of goals, and this week we're going to be putting
into play a lot of new forms to find and teach that we found in PMG and
the scriptures.
This all reminds me of Timberline, because we had a
saying there with the boots and the compass. The boots represent hard
work, and the compass represents the right direction. We may be working
hard, but without the direction, we aren't going anywhere. And at the
same time, we may know the right direction, but it doesn't help if
there's no hard work. So, I'm going to be applying that this week, and I
hope to report a very good week to you all next Monday. I know I will.
Hopefully you can all think about the routines of church, of jobs, or
other assignments or things in your lives so that you can start to try
new things with a spirit of prayer and see some miracles.
Hope you all have a great week! Gotta go, love you all.
Elder DeFreese
p.s. Sorry, no pictures this week, I haven't taken any! =S
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