Well, we just had what we as missionaries like to call a big… “machete.” Ouch. My first District Leader said one time that the old mission President, Pte Lopez, when he macheted he macheted with a dull blade, so you FELT it when he macheted you, but when Pte Cordon machetes you, you don’t know what’s happening until a moment later you see your head’s on the floor. But I’m very grateful for Pte Cordon because he always expects a lot from us, and it helps me to be better knowing that I do always have a lot to improve as a missionary and we should never be complacent and lazy. We just had a conference about being a Social, Honorable, and a Consecrated missionary. He gave us some aspects of the mission where we can know if we are consecrated in the work, or maybe just honorable… and I know that I have a lot to improve in a lot of ways. I’ve been failing in giving all of myself sometimes, because sometimes I just think about going home and sleeping and stuff… I never had that problem at the beginning of my mission, I was completely focused, but I’ve started to let myself get distracted sometimes. And the most important of all the steps of the gospel of Jesus Christ is Endure to the End. And we’re not done yet. There’s no looking back unless you wanna be a pillar of salt like… I don’t remember her name because I don’t know my scriptures good enough… Levi’s wife… No one wants to be a pillar of salt. It also worries me that I am not going to have done my part by the time I get home. So… please pray for me that I won’t be baggy anymore. This is the only time I can focus entirely on the Lord’s work and hopefully learn my scriptures better. I guess it really stood out to me the end of the presentation, when the man who wrote about these three types of missionaries talked about the kind of people they would be when they got home–what’s the point of doing well when on the other hand there could be miracles? I would encourage you all to contact the missionaries and to help visit with them and give them references. It makes a huge difference. There’s nothing more important anyone of us can do, than to build up the Lord’s Kingdom.
Love, Bekah
Questions:
Where do you perform baptisms? Do you have a church building, even though it is a branch and not a ward?
We have a bldg. Which is pretty lame because I really wanted to have baptisms in a river or the ocean, but nope… just in the normal ol font in the rs room.