How are you doing? I hope everyone is doing well and also doing a lot of missionary work.
This week has been kinda different from last week. Mainly it's been harder. We took some hits with people who haven't been answering us and who have been giving us bidones and stuff like that. Yesterday was the worst of it. We had a bomb day full of appointments planned and we were pumped up for it. Every single apponitment either fell through or we got a bidone. It was rough.
And then also when we saw A... and his family this week we had prepared to the best of our ability. We had fasted for them, prayed, prepared a bomb lesson with a musical number and everything. We felt that we needed to teach them more about prayer. We taught them about the difference between saying prayers and really praying. Because every time C... always says, "yeah I pray every day it's my spiritual food" And that's super amazing. But we didn't feel that she had prayed specifically to know if she should be baptized. For some reason when we taught about that she didn't take it well. She said "I have to pray about finding work, about finding a place to live, about my documents, and you guys want me to pray about baptism!??" It was kinda sad.
But I kinda learned a couple things from that experience and from this week. The first thing is that fasting and prayer is powerful. But it cannot overcome agency. That is the one thing faith can't do. BUT we WERE blessed because we fasted with faith. We were just blessed in other ways. That night we found two more people to teach while waiting for the train and then on Sunday A.. brought his friend who seemed to really like what was said in church and is likely interested in the message. Sometimes the Lord blesses us in ways that we didn't expect or even not in the way that we wanted.
I think that I need to take some of my own advice and stop saying prayers and actually pray.
Anyways yeah it was a hard week, and I was a little discouraged but that's alright. Sometimes I just need like a couple minutes of pity party where I'm like "dang this sucks" and then just shake it off. Don't dwell on it. And keep on going. I think it's those moments where God's testing you to see what you'll do.
This next week will be better. I hope you guys are trying to help the missionaries back home because yah never know if you could be the answer to fasting and prayer on their part. That goes for everybody not just the missionaries.
So yeah that was the week. Today we are going with some members and we are gathering some chestnuts and were gonna roast them up and eat them. It's gonna be sick. I got the chestnuts roasting on an open fire, now I just need some mistletoe... It's been a while. I'm kiiiiiiiiiiding!! It really hasn't been that long... I'm kiiiiiiiiiding!
Anyways that's all folks. I love you guys and miss you guys. Be good and sing. Tell the grills to getoutfromwayfromroundemboys
Love Drew
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