so elder abrams and i have been in a 4 pad for the last week, but
it is ending this week... the other elders got an apartment, it was fun
while it lasted hahahaha. but there are a ton of missionaries that live
super close to us, so we will be having a bunch of fun p days and
hopefully sleep overs with them, i am so pumped! the elders here are
really cool, and i can relate with them really well, i love it, so much
better than sabin and i being the only missionaries within 60 miles of
anyone.
the ward here is absolutely incredible! the people are amazing and
were very welcoming! everyone is super missionary minded and is helping
us out any way they can. the ward mission leader is a stud and will do
anything for us. people feed us every night, its pretty nice, we are
definitely spoiled here!
elder abrams and i have been doing a lot of planning and getting
things all figured out for the zone, and there are some big things that
are going to be happening! we set zone goals, and if everything goes as
planned there should be 23 this transfer! its pretty weird how everyone
is looking to me now for advice and help, i feel pretty inadequate, but i
can definitely tell that the lord is supporting me and helping me
become a better person and missionary. abrams is a stellar missionary
and is teaching me a lot, i really am grateful that he is my companion,
cause i know we are going to grow together and see amazing things
happen!
so we do have a few people to teach, and we are doing a lot of work
and teaching, just not as much as we could. we feel that we can be
teaching at least 20-25 lessons a week, which is pretty dang good.
yesterday we were teaching this guy and was talking about how there is a
prophet on the earth today and how he can find out if he really is a
prophet by going to conference and listening to him speak, but he went
off on us and pulled the scripture in revelations about not adding or
taking away from "this prophecy" and how thomas s monson is a false
prophet cause he believes in the book of mormon and that is adding to
the bible, but he didnt understand that that scripture is talking about
the book of revelations and that it says the same thing Deuteronomy and
that most of the new testament was written after the book of
revelations, so it kinda turned into a bash, which was bad, but we are
going back over and are going to do a much better job at just inviting
the sprit; even though we were right, it wasnt good to do that.
"jesus christ is the same yesterday today and forever" and so
there has been another prophet called on the earth today! i am so
thankful for the prophets and apostles and how much guidance that they
give to us and that we get to hear from them this week! think about it,
people of the same caliber of peter james and john of the new testament
are going to speak to us about problems that we face in todays world,
its amazing!! i can promise yall that if you come up with a question and
ask god to have that question answered that something someone says will
answer your questions., they truly are called of god, and they receive
revelation for us. i love this gospel so much and love listening to the
words of the prophets!
i love yall and hope that you will watch or listen to conference this week, it will help you in your life!
until next week
elder schipaanboord
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