This past week has been a relatively busy one... and we had to do SO much traveling to and from Reading...(we are Reading for our p-day today because we had accounting late last night so we stayed the night with Elder Redd and Elder Baum) but it was fun and completely worth every single trip. We had our MLC on Friday and that was really a big earning experience for myself and others. We had to
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| Sunday Night accounting!!! |
Tuesday: September 1st, 2015
It is really weird to think that is already September... where did July and August go??? It was our P-day due to transfers so we just did a lot of the usual p-day stuff. We finished however, with a very very powerful teach with the Baker family. I cannot explain what we all felt that night but, Charlie was struggling to recognize answers from the Spirit and when we finished the lesson... the prayer I offered to close was really remarkable. I said a slow but powerful prayer for her to be able to receive that witness for herself, and after... her husband David was like, "now you can't tell me you didn't feel that...?" Long story short, she now knows what it feels like to receive an answer to a prayer and I am so thankful for the power of prayer and the way that night ended.
Wednesday: September 2nd, 2015
Today wasn't to spectacular of a day... we had maybe two lessons but there were some issues going on with people that we had to resolve, one of our investigators almost got jumped with her baby in her arms, another just had things going on, and then a lesson didn't go through so it was a not so good day for anyone.
Thursday: September 3rd, 2015
We got our car!!! I feel so accomplished in my life because I am able to say that I drove on the wrong side of the road and I didn't die or hurt anyone else!!!=) But today is where the most of the traveling
kicked in. We had to prepare the Reading chapel for MLC for Friday and then we had accounting that night with the District Leader's so it made it easier to once again, spend the night in Reading(which we will do a lot this transfer...) But we got to meet the newest missionaries in our area and they are total stars!!! 5 of them came to our zone and they are all ready to work and each of them is from America(a lot from Utah and 1 from Arizona) But we got to meet them and introduce ourselves so that was fun. We also had 8 Elder's in 1 flat that night because we had some travel from areas to be ready for MLC in the Morning.
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| Just cooking curry....no big deal!! |
Friday: September 4th, 2015
MLC!!! Really great day and just full of information and ideas of how we can make our mission better and again, ready for this Season of Miracles and for us to find ways to meet the standards that the Lord has set for us. We had a lot to take away and present to our District Leaders in DLC so we prepared for that the same night. Next MLC is in October before the end of the transfer to record our progress and see truly, how we did as a mission with the updated training plan and if we met the goals and reached our focus point that we had for the transfer.
Saturday: September 5th, 2015
Another long day full of meetings with DLC, we just passed on the information from MLC and then had a council about it and prepared things that we wanted to focus on as a zone and what we wanted to achieve and how we could do that.
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| The Supper 8...(Elders: Richins, Mayes, Dyer, Me, Redd, Syndergaard, Baum, and Schulthies) |
The... Season of Miracles fasting prayer was the greatest thing ever. We had every missionary say a prayer on their knees, as well as stake presidents, bishops, members, the whole lot that agreed to join us in this fasting prayer. The Lord has prepared the ELSM for another Great Harvest and we have all received a witness from the Spirit that He has indeed, prepared thousands... of people to be baptized. President
Eyring has even received this witness and talked to President Gubler face to face about it. There are people beyond the veil that need work and they can only receive it by the people who are now being prepared to receive and accept the Gospel. I cannot deny this statement because the Spirit has witnessed it to be true to me... I cannot wait to see what the Lord has in store for us and the miracles that we get to unfold for Him and His work.
So that sums up this crazy week. This mission is a dream mission...not only is it a wonderful place to be and see, but the work is just going to explode and being able to help those that the Lord puts in
our path or us in theirs... being able to truly help them find truth and happiness in the Gospel and helping them come to know that what we teach is true by the power of the Spirit, It will make all the
difference in my life and the rest of my mission that I still have left to fulfill and unfold.
Happy birthday to all you wonderful September babies!!!
Talk to you soon!!!
Love you all,
-Elder Rivera
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