Remove The Things That Are Keeping Us From Serving Our Best

Dear Family & Friends,

 

This week we had a big conference in Morioka which is pretty far away from Hirosaki making this week a lot of travel. At the meeting, we had Elder Whiting address us.  He is a member of the quorum of the Seventy and is first president over the Northern Asia mission.

He talked about Obedience and Christ and his atonement. It was so cool. I learned a lot of things. One thought that I had during this meeting was about the Anti Nephi Lehis. How they showed their loyalty and faith by taking their weapons of war and putting them deep in the earth, so that they would not be tempted to even take them up again. And as I thought about that, I thought what as a missionary can I bury? What can I do to show the Lord my commitment to Him and this work?

 

So I got the idea that as a district we are going to do as the anti nephi lehis did and literally remove the things that might be holding us back from serving our best. 

I absolutely love being able to go out everyday and talk with a lot of new people everyday. People who will listen are very few, but I think that we plant a lot of seeds. In the pmg it says that no effort is wasted. I believe that with all my heart. Last week we had the opportunity to hear the Branch Presidents Conversion story.  He said that when he first met the missionaries it was on the street and he had no interest whatsoever. They handed him a pass a long card, and he just kind of put it a side. But then about a month later a different pair of missionaries came up to him and handed him the same pass along card and he once again told them he had no interest. So he went along for about another month when another different pair of missionaries came up to him and handed him the same pass a long card again. He realized that maybe something we were sending him a message that he needs to listen to what they have to say. So it took a long time but he finally listened to the missionaries and was able to be baptized. He was basically an Eternal Investigator, until one day he kept on getting the feeling he needed to go to the church. So on his way home from work, he told the taxi man to take him to the church so they did.  And then he called the missionaries up and told them he was at the church and ready to receive baptism. SO they did it there on the spot.

Me and Elder Thayne have been trying to set up some system so that we can coordinate the work better with all the missionaries in the district. It took some time. But we got it all set up so I am way excited to see how this district does.

Well Congrats for Nat! I am so excited I can see so many blessings here in the field and at home. I love it.

 

Love,

 

Elder Nebeker