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| Pond Froze Over at the Temple! |
We have totally had a fantastic day today and it was a really fun Preparation day to start off the week! Not a whole lot happened this week due to meetings at the beginning of the transfer so forgive me if there isn't anything to exciting within this week's email. So hopefully everyone else has had an exciting week as well!
Tuesday: January 12th, 2016
Today we had our MLC and that took place over the whole day and we went over a lot of the new changes that have come to the mission and the missions worldwide so that was crazy!
Wednesday: January 13th, 2016
We had our DLC today so another meeting that lasted almost all day passing along all of the things that we counseled about at MLC with President Gubler. We also had our first exchange of the transfer with the new Basingstoke Elders following the new way of doing exchanges which was super interesting but it was a great experience. Especially to be on exchanges with a fresh missionary that just came out. It was fun! Crazy to think that that was me six months ago! Time sure does go super fast... I still remember my first exchange with Elder Redd forever ago is what it seems like. ahh, good times.
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| This is what happens when missionaries park... |
Thursday: January 14th. 2016
So we had our district meeting this week and some unexpected events came around which we had to take care of which involved some blessings and a lot of talking and encouragement.
Friday: January 15th, 2016
So today we had a zone fast together in order to find the elect and the prepared so we can find those that are ready to hear this wonderful message of restored truths and those that are ready to make changes in their lives and we have seen some great success from it already which is amazing. If we truly sacrifice, God rewards us greatly!
Saturday: January 16th, 2016
Today we took Angela and Angelica (2 of our friends) who are ready to be baptized to the temple and they loved it! "It was way better than I expected" they said. We got to watch Meet the Mormons with them and it was pretty amazing! I was also able to grab the DVD from the center so now I have it to take to investigators homes to watch now!=)
Sunday: January 17th, 2016
So today was church and the usual but cool story kept short here. We were going through formers and we went and knocked on their door before accounting and we got to meet someone totally new (still apart of the family) but someone who was taught in the past and we covered simple things but he had a ton of anti doctrine to the church and we tackled each question perfectly! We got to the point of answering questions and giving great doctrinal answers to them guided ENTIRELY by the Spirit, John just says after a long pause, smiling... "I have nothing else to say." TOTALLY changed his heart. All he wanted to do was indirectly bash and we indirectly bashed back but rounded off the truth and he agreed to read the Book of Mormon again and pray and ask if it was true because everything we explained made so much sense to him after being confused for such a long time. Super cool experience of seeing the Spirit work through someone so easily if we do what he needs us to do and say.
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| Missionary Nerf War! |
Today we had a nerf war fight in the chapel and yes... missionaries get down and dirty, when it sounds like fun we agreed to join haha. So, we did all of our necessary stuff and then joined a member who had an entire arsenal of nerf guns and we had a war. It was super fun to be honest!:)
So that's how this week went, super busy but it was a good one!
Verse of the week:
5 Wherefore, the things which are pleasing unto the world I do not write, but the things which are pleasing unto God and unto those who are not of the world.
It finally snowed in England so guess what...?
We need to always be sure we are doing the things that are pleasing unto God and not unto men or our own self satisfactory. If we do the things that God needs us to do, we will always be happy because that is a promise he gives all of us if we do what is required.
Love you all and hope you all have a wonderful week!
-Elder Rivera
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