June 12, 2017 Emails
hey Dad! it was a good week. we did not actually find anyone new to teach this
week, it seems that everyone we talked to did not keep the appointments we
set, so that was kinda lame hahaha. that's work though haha. you can't take
anyone's agency away, although it might be nice sometimes hahaha. we had to push B's date back, because he has been drinking and smoking quite a bit, and he
was quite sad about it. he expressed that he still wants to be baptized, and he is
going to come up with a new date for himself that will work with his family
too. he will make it eventually!
as for the W family, we have not made contact
with them lately. they have been super busy. a bunch of our teaching pool has
been dropped or is now avoiding us, so we have had some opposition there and so we
have been working on finding--the eternal work of missionary work,
finding. our mission is coming out with a new way to seek referrals from
members. it is basically just focusing on following the Bishop's council to
visit members and increase their faith to have quality gospel conversations
with people they meet to prepare or bring them into the gospel for us to teach
them. we call it priesthood directed finding, it all starts with the stake
presidents and they push it to bishops who push it to members, so in turn we
have more people to teach. it is supposed to increase the statistics to new investigators who are baptized to like 1 in 10 or something like that high. it's really cool. i am very
excited about it, and we are meeting with the bishop and the sisters on Tuesday
to get it rolling.
C is doing really well, he got to pass the sacrament
yesterday and liked it quite a bit, same with W. he is coming out with us
on Friday to teach with us. W is probably one of my favorite converts
hahaha he is super funny. i don't have much more to update you about, but it was
a good week, we got to give a blessing to one of the people we have been
teaching, and we had a really good lesson with K last night. we showed
one of my favorite Mormon Messages, "spiritually fit," it's super good and since K likes to workout too, it helped him pretty well.
that is super
cool you got to go to Chile, that is a very long flight haha. now we are all
visiting each others' missions it seems like, you to Jeff's, Jeff to mine, you to Jake's a while back. how you spelled the Spanish made me laugh pretty
good hahaha, you almost got it all right haha. sounds like you had good church
meetings despite the language barrier. we had ours about forgiveness, it
was super good, one lady talked about a girl that was hit by
a truck, and killed. the parent immediately forgave the driver. it was cool to think of
that and how much more Christ will forgive us. it was a cool experience. that
sounds like you have a bunch more traveling to do. that will be fun.
it really is so important to keep an eternal perspective on
things; if we do that, it is so much easier to keep the commandments. the
gift of Christ's atonement is all-encompassing, and it makes it all
possible. i have strengthened my testimony of that lately. i know that i am
changed through Christ, he can change our hearts and desires, and he will, if
we have desire and if we pray to him in faith. i am so glad to have a mission
experience that teaches me so much. thank you Dad for your testimony and your
example! i love you Dad! i hope you enjoy the rest of your trip! have a great
week! talk to you next week!
Elder
Sedlacek
hey Mom! it was a good week! we did not find anyone, and Billy did not make it to church. he had some issues with the Word of Wisdom, and he is working on it, so we are pushing the date back. i wrote a bunch about our teaching pool, but in short it's time to find a new one hahaha, or add to it i should
say. although we have some cool potential sprouting up lately. we got 2
referrals the past 4 days, that is pretty unusual. we have yet to contact
the first one. he is a super rich guy, lives in a HUGE house. big for the Midwest at least, not always Utah though. i am excited to meet him.
we have a lady we met last week when we passed her taking a bed off the top of her car, so we got
out and helped her. she invited us back, so we have an appointment in a few
days. should be exciting. L is still excited, but we need to get his
parents into it more, or i won't be baptizing him. he needs support to stay
active, or he won't be.
my favorite part of the week was probably my birthday. it was a good
day, just the same as the rest of the week, but we took our sorry selves to Burro Loco, a way good Mexican place that serves the dankest food! it was
awesome. then we got ice cream haha. thank you so much for the gifts too, they
are aweome! i ate the cake, it was pretty good for my cooking hahaha. Elder Mitchell also made cherry pie for district meeting too, it was really good.
my
favorite person was probably B, i am feeling a lot more love for people
lately, it's a great feeling to have that Christ-like love, it boosts you up! we
have really liked playing with the magnetic Thinking Putty hahaha, we make faces and
have them eat the magnet haha.
that is good you're staying busy this summer, and all that, it's nice to
stay busy. i bet it's weird having Dad gone, i bet he is having a good time
though, you will have to do something fun for yourself too hahaha. that is
cool you had the people from India speak at stake conference. that would be fun to hear. sounds
like you had very good meetings. i wrote about our sacrament meeting in dad's email. it
was super good. a lot of people think that we try to "earn" our way
into heaven, or "earn" blessings, but that is not the case. we
qualify and will be more open to the Lord's blessings as we are obedient. if we
are not doing our part, he can't bless us as much as he would like to.
obedience shows the signs to God that we love Him, and are seeking to become
like Him. the commandments are simple, but not always easy. we have a simple
path to follow the Savior to be able to live with God again, and it will get us
there. he will make it "easier" for us to make it there, by
lightning our burdens because of the atonement he performed. i know that
because of Christ, we can be changed, we can be joyful, and we can become
better. we had a great week!
you asked how i'm feeling about coming home? it's just the paradox of leaving behind something i have
looked forward to my whole life, and now it's almost over. it's weird. and
being able to feel the Spirit so much and then...i also am just excited to be done,
since i am sooooo tired. it's constant battling thoughts and feelings. i
just ignore it, and Elder Mitchell is a good help for that! what Jeff talked about when Jake was coming home is all true hahaha! it was a
good warning. if i think about it too much, it just makes me sad.
well, i have to go now Mom, i do need test strips this week, i am on my last vial, but good
on everything else. well love you mom! i hope you have a great week!
-Elder
Sedlacek
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