Another week has passed and now here I
am writing one of my last few letters. I stayed focused for most of the
week... except for Saturday. Saturday
was my trunky day. I kept on seeing people's faces from back home pop
into my mind. Faces that I love and miss. Faces that I am so excited to
see again. I thought about the reception I will receive when I get home
and that gave me goosebumps. I can literally feel people's anticipation
of me coming back at home.
For last weeks
MyPlan Session, the session was titled "Continuing Discipleship". In
this session I set goals and made plans for a series of simple gospel
habits including: Daily Prayer, Scripture Study, Service, Sabbath Day
Observance, Temple Worship, Family History, and Institute. It actually
had me register for institute. So I did and I am now registered for an
institute class in the summer. This week's MyPlan Session is
"Self-Reliance."
It has been a good week for the
work. On Monday, we went to Princeton, Maine. It is a little town in
the middle of nowhere. It was there that we stopped by a less active
that lives in a log cabin and has a really nice view in her backyard.
She says she stopped going because she doesn't believe in organized
religion and doesn't like being told what to do. We bore our testimonies
of the blessings of coming to church. But she said she's not interested
in coming back or meeting with us.
Tuesday: We
helped a less active from Fredericton that lives in St. Andrews shingle
his roof. I stayed alongside the roof line because I am afraid of
heights. It was 30 degrees Celsius. I took out the staples in the roof
with a hammer. After we helped with this guy's roof, we traveled to McAdam
which is about an hour away. When we first got there, we stopped by a
part-member family. The husband who is a non-member showed us his
masonry collection and after a while he opened to us about why he doesn't
believe in God. He doesn't believe in God because he's seen too much bad
in his life. After the part-member, we picked up another new investigator
named Paul King Kade. He was a referral. He has amnesia so he suffers
from short-term memory loss. After that, we ate dinner at a restaurant in
McAdam.
Wednesday:
We had District Meeting in the morning and then we had lunch at Pizza Delight with Sister Lee. In the afternoon we gave service at the
hospital. Then we went bike contacting for awhile. We had dinner with
Sis. Graham and then we gave a blessing to Sister Johnson.
Thursday:
It was Elder Beacham's birthday. He opened his presents in the morning and
then we gave service at a food pantry. Then we had lesson with Daniel.
We taught him the plan of salvation. Then we had dinner at the Devaney's
for Elder B's birthday. They fed us pork and red velvet cake.
Friday:
We continued to help that less active from Fredericton with his roof.
Then we weekly planned and did our 10-day plan. After weekly planning, we
ate supper, then headed downtown and talked to some people. Then we
stopped by a less active and invited him to come to church.
Saturday: We helped a member move some stuff out of her basement in the morning and then from 1 o'clock to 5 o'clock we were
biking in 33 degree weather. It was brutal but it was worth it. We
talked to a crazy college guy for 20 minutes about nature and fusion. He
has some pretty weird ideas. After a long afternoon biking, we had
correlation with our ward mission leader.
Sunday:
We had church and then we gave Austin the Sacrament. After we gave Austin
the sacrament, we stopped by the Daley's to see why they weren't at church. On our way there, we picked up a turtle off of the side of the
road and played with it for awhile. We finally put it back in the pond
after holding it for awhile.
Have a good week!
1 Corinthians 3:10
"According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise
masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon.
But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon." I am laying the
foundation for future missionaries in this mission. Every seed counts.
Every day counts.
Love,
Elder O'Brien (the older)
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