So this last week was a pretty hectic
week. We had a member of the 70 come and talk to us. It was Elder Golden. He
was a really nice speaker and I really had a lot of respect for him. I really
enjoyed his 2 hour long lecture that he gave to us. He hit everything and
anything. From Obedience to faith to hard work even being clean (thus the
apartment inspection). He answered one of my biggest questions that has been
plaguing me my entire mission. Often while being out here I have seen many
missionaries who find success but barely work for it. They get by with doing
just enough, even some of them don't even do enough and still yet they baptize.
I have been working my butt off for the past 11 months and why in the heck
haven't I had very much success. (I'm not playing a woe is me, or that baptisms
are life and death, but it’s still nice to have success) anyways I went into
this conference with a question as to how I can improve myself. And the answer
came. He said that there are two reasons why missionaries don't find success.
Number one is they don't work hard enough, they don't know how to hit the
pavement and so when the time comes they don't have the spirit with them. The
second reason is that missionaries are working extremely hard, but they are
working extremely hard in the wrong direction, they aren't doing the Lords work
his way. As soon as I heard that my heart sunk into my belly, but at the same
time I started to sing praises to Heavenly Father at the understanding of what
I need to do. It goes back to working smarter, but smarter in the right
direction. It’s going to be a trial and error sort of thing, but already this
week we have started to see the fruits of it with one of our investigators
attending church.
Although this week we had a really rough lesson with one of our investigators that we have been seeing for like a month now. He feels that us telling him that his church doesn't have the fullness is us telling him that all of his past experiences of him finding God doesn't matter. We tried explaining over and over that we don't want to take away, just add to that he already has and for him to read the Book of Mormon. He then goes off on how he is seeing all of these miracles in his church and numbers are being added daily and so for him to walk away now would be almost insanity. But for some reason he keeps inviting us back. I don't know maybe the Lord has a way to show me patience or maybe he will be humbled, I don't know. We shall see. But we are starting to find and teach more so it has been a tendy mercy of the Lord to see all of this happening.
Also while we were at the soup kitchen the preacher asked me to pray again and then right after that someone walked up to me and started to ask questions. So that was neat to see the Lord working by small and simple means.
Love you all family!
Elder Taylor
Although this week we had a really rough lesson with one of our investigators that we have been seeing for like a month now. He feels that us telling him that his church doesn't have the fullness is us telling him that all of his past experiences of him finding God doesn't matter. We tried explaining over and over that we don't want to take away, just add to that he already has and for him to read the Book of Mormon. He then goes off on how he is seeing all of these miracles in his church and numbers are being added daily and so for him to walk away now would be almost insanity. But for some reason he keeps inviting us back. I don't know maybe the Lord has a way to show me patience or maybe he will be humbled, I don't know. We shall see. But we are starting to find and teach more so it has been a tendy mercy of the Lord to see all of this happening.
Also while we were at the soup kitchen the preacher asked me to pray again and then right after that someone walked up to me and started to ask questions. So that was neat to see the Lord working by small and simple means.
Love you all family!
Elder Taylor
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