It is a holiday once again on a p-day so all the libraries are closed. Because
of that I am on a smartphone right now at the mission office. All of
the metro missionaries come to the mission office on holidays to use the
computers. The reason why I am on a smartphone is because the Halifax
Sisters got here first and there's only 3 computers so I am using Elder
Holbrook's (Senior Missionary) smartphone. I have grown to dislike
holidays on Mondays on my mission :P.
In case you are wondering the new revised missionary dress guidelines that came out on Friday
in lieu of mosquito-borne diseases running rampant does not affect the
Sister Missionaries in this mission. Much to their delight. But it does
affect the Elders in this mission in a good way. We are now allowed to
wear sunglasses contacting and we are allowed to wear sun hats.
The temperature got up to 32 C on Saturday.
We spent 6 hours of that day proselyting. It was a long rigorous day in
the sun. By the end of the day we were both very tired and exhausted.
Luckily in the evening we cooked hot dogs
on a stove at church for a band practice at the Church. We got to eat
some and with the band. It was a nice reliever. Plus we were inside so
that helped too.
Elder Bennett of the Seventy had zone conference with the missionaries in Nova Scotia on Wednesday.
He made several remarks to us. Some of the remarks he made were on the
subjects of: doing our "best", The Doctrine of Christ, contention in the work, etc. Elder Bennett is a very personable man. He is a lot
like Elder Holland. He is very sincere and loving. Whenever he spoke you
knew it came from the heart. Some things that stuck out to me from what
he said was when he talked about doing our best. He talked about how
doing our best is doing better than the day before, even when we forget
something that day or slip up we are doing our best. The Lord looks on the
heart not the mind. He talked about being consecrated as missionaries and
we need to dedicate everything we do each day to the building up of the
kingdom in the Maritimes. That includes eating, sleeping, driving,
studying. Everything we do should be about the people not us. My
favorite quote from his remarks on contention was: "There's no place for contention is this work Elders and Sisters.. there just isn't" and"Contention
in companionships will lead to contention to marriage. Contention in
districts will lead to contention in families."
He
made a prophetic promise to us about asking for referrals. He also
showed us how to be lovingly persistent with people. He talked about
"helping" people come unto Christ. He said that we need to sincere when
we're talking to people. He also talked about searching for the elect.
I
could go on and on about what he had to say. But to summarize what I
got out of zone conference with him was work with a sense of urgency,
ask for referrals from everyone, and at the end of each day look at what
you did that day and compare it to the day before. That might have been
my last zone conference. Normally we do zone conferences every other
transfer but with this one we had two in a row.
Have a good week!
Love,
Elder O'Brien (the older)
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