Howdy y'all!
What a crazy busy week! The weather has been up and down, hot, cold and very humid! It's been raining a lot too with fog, lightning and thunder storms! We almost got hit by a car 2 different times this week but luckily we are safe. It's my birthday tomorrow and my companion Sister Loveridge's birthday is next week! It will be fun to be able to celebrate together!
To start out the week Sister Jones was able to come into our area on Monday and do exchanges with us! It was great to be able to learn from her and for her to spend time in our area! She continues to show great missionary skills and has a bold and strong testimony about the gospel! I'm so glad to know her and to consider her a close friend. It's been a great journey being able to serve here together in this mission with her!
For P-day last week one of our members was so kind to take us Downtown to the Capital in Austin! It was a lot of fun and we were able to explore a little bit while we were down there and she took us to lunch at one of the food places that's only in Austin! I definitely understand the moto "Keep Austin Weird" now. You will just have to go to Downtown to know what I mean!
We went to the food bank again and were able to serve in the kitchen this time! We put meals together, packaged, and labeled them! We were very busy and the time went by too fast! I love being able to serve there with our whole zone each week. After we were able to go to dinner at Tina Thai's house and she invited Brandon and one of our other investigators (Berlin) to come! Tina's mom and brother were there too and they were visiting from Vietnam so they didn't speak any English, but they taught us a little bit of Vietnamese! We were able to invite Berlin to church this week and she came! She had a really good experience and in Relief Society the lesson was on the Restoration (miracle). We watched the video and Berlin loved it and she took notes! She is meeting again with us on Saturday!
This week we spent a lot of time walking and talking to a lot of people! We received a lot of referrals and were able to teach some people (miracle). One day while we were going to contact a potential investigator we knocked on their door and it was an Indian family that opened up to us. They let us teach them and said that we could come back again this week! We hope that they will be home! Right now we are teaching a Brazilian family, a Romanian family, and now hopefully an Indian family this week (lots of diversity) we are excited! The work is progressing in this area and miracles are being seen every day! The Lord is truly preparing people for me and Sister Loveridge to meet!
Brandon is still doing so well! He continues to impress us throughout the week with his progression in the Gospel! He recently talked about maybe going on a mission in a year (WOW)! He is truly amazing and I just love seeing him grow!
This transfer one of my goals is to work on developing Christlike attributes and the one I chose to work on is patience. I read an article recently on Youth.lds.org about patience and a lot of things stuck out to me. The title of the article was "How to be Patient" and in it it states, "Patience is not just enduring. It is enduring well! Patience isn’t merely waiting. Patience is not passive resignation, nor is it failing to act because of our fears. Patience means active waiting and enduring. It means staying with something and doing all that we can—working, hoping, and exercising faith; bearing hardship with fortitude, even when the desires of our hearts are delayed. Patience means staying with something until the end. It means delaying immediate gratification for future blessings. It means reining in anger and holding back the unkind words.
Patience means accepting that which cannot be changed and facing it with courage, grace, and faith. It means being “willing to submit to all things which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon [us], even as a child doth submit to his father” (Mosiah 3:19). Ultimately, patience means being “firm and steadfast, and immovable in keeping the commandments of the Lord” (1 Nephi 2:10) every hour of every day, even when it is hard to do so. The work of patience boils down to this: keep the commandments; trust in God, our Heavenly Father; serve Him with meekness and Christlike love; exercise faith and hope in the Savior; and never give up. The lessons we learn from patience will cultivate our character, lift our lives, and heighten our happiness. They will help us to become faithful disciples of our Master, Jesus Christ."
I know that it is important for all of us to develop the attribute of patience and to endure well our trials and things that come into our path that aren't expected! I know the Lord will guide us and keep us on the right path and he is waiting to bless us for our efforts! I love y'all and I hope you have a wonderful week!
Con Amor,
Hermana Mann
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