June 17, 2013
Hola family!
How's life? Good, I hope!
This week has been the best of my mission so far! We saw so many miracles and blessings!
On Friday we had the great opportunity to hear from Elder Christoffel Golden of the Seventy. He gave a talk in the most recent general conference and he is AMAZING!
There were a lot of things that we learned from him but I'll share some specifics...
He talked to us a lot about setting our goals with faith. We need to counsel in the Lord with the goals we set and have faith that we can accomplish them with His help. He told us to find out what God wants in this area and do it. This was really applicable to me and Sister Schellhous at the time because we have set some pretty high goals for this month that were high but we felt they were inspired so we knew they were right. The other thing that Elder Golden mentioned was that when we keep our promises the Lord honors His promise to us. We really tried to exercise our faith in the Lord and this past week we were able to reach the goal we had set. But it wasn't from any power of our own. We couldn't have done it without the Lord's help.
One of my favorite things he said to us was that our greatest talent we have as a missionary is virtue and obedience. That is all the power that God requires of His missionaries. It doesn't matter if you are shy or outgoing, if you're good at talking to people, or you're good with words, all the Lord needs of His servants is for us to be obedient and virtuous and he will qualify us for His work.
He also talked about the spirit and how usually (when we are righteous) the first thought that comes to the mind is from the Lord so we need to act on it. He mentioned that we may not always see the consequence of making a right decision but at some point we will. Sometimes we need to follow a prompting that might not have an immediate outcome. Sister Schellhous and I really wanted to work on following the first thought. We had some miracles happen because of it! At one point we were saying a prayer before we were going out to tract and I heard pretty clearly in my head "go see Alice." Alice was this really promising woman we met that we haven't been able to get a hold of since the first time we met her so eventually we just had to drop her. We went to see her after i had that prompting and she was home! We got to set up an appointment with her.
On the same day we were doing something else and we felt prompted to go see a less active woman. We went straight there and we found out she was getting ready for a garage sale and we were able to help her get some stuff priced. Because of this she seemed a lot more welcoming to us. It's been amazing how we've seen all the promises that Elder Golden gave us have happened.
Since He came and spoke to us Sister Schellhous and I have tried really hard to do the things he challenged us to do and change they way we did our work before and we've seen so many blessing since then. We now have 12 investigators, 5 are progressing, the rest we're excited to go teach this week! But we've found so many people who have been prepared and we feel so blessed that the Lord has placed so many people in our path. We don't feel we deserve it, but we've been trying so hard to be obedient and virtuous so that we can accomplish the work the Lord needs us to do. It's been really humbling. We didn't find all these people on our own and we definitely aren't the ones teaching these people. The Lord lead us to them, and he's allowing us to be the vessels through which his word can come. I really feel so undeserving to have so many blessings but I am so grateful to be a missionary and to be a part of this work.
I'm so grateful to be a missionary and to know this gospel. Life is so good.
I can't believe how fast my mission is going by. I wish I could slow down the time. I have learned so many wonderful things and met so many wonderful people. How did I get so lucky?
I hope all is well at home! I love you!
The Kingdom of God or Nothing!!
Love, Sister Gregson
This is Lorena! One of my new favorite people on the whole world. She is the recent convert that recently moved out of our ward.
What's wrong with this picture? (hint, look at what he is, what he's roasting, and what is on his shirt)
Flowers
Funny sign that makes me and Sister Schellhous laugh. Not only is the kid wearing the most hanious outfit but we always read it as "slow children playing" instead of "slow, children playing"
The sky in texas is the most beautiful sky there is!
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