heya family! holy cowabunga crazy week here in sheboygan. it was mission tour!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! we got to hear from a general authority this week. it was beautiful. on my mission ive gained such a strong testimony of personal revelation...its just been pourin in this week. the flood gates were busted and this week for sure its been a commin especially with mission tour.
elder perkins is a man of god. at the begining of mission tour he invited us to change from just objects sitting in the pews..to agents ready to receive revelation. i had prayed to be able to have questions for mission tour because i knew i would receive answers. and all of them were answered. if i were to write em all out might take a bit longer so ill just write one that slapped me in the face real nice. haha. allll of the greatest missionaries suffered adversity even when they were at thier best. they knew their relationship with god and knew his voice. satin always comes especially when we are working hard and doin exactly what we need to do...our best. the things that i must do that we all must never cease to do...i made a list of a couple things that came to my mind as i thought about what elder perkins was teaching all of us. Never cease to call upon god. Find strength in knowing i am a son of god. Build your foundation on the savior. AND get goin...start your hike right on up the path. we all have characteristics of our heavenly father...he is trying to get us to become that person. president cutler really hit me hard when he talked about becoming consecrated. within that... to be consecrated you must seek to do things to receive blessings..but seek to do things because you really love your father in heaven. that is tough eh? ya it is. but as ive began to think about it and try my hardest to apply it shooot im so much happier. thats something else that hit me hard this week as well. we got home from mission tour late...and i said my personal prayers and really asked my heavenly father for help. ive been quiiiite nervous to start the whole training thing...but the spirit definently comforted me as prayed to lay down my weaknesses at the feet of my savior. cause man..im so imperfect but i know he can help me so much..he can make me perfect. he can lift me to that next height. but i received a strong answer to my prayers that night... just as our savior put his will on the alter for all of us...for me. i have to put my will on the alter, as a representative of the one who did it for me and for the whole world. he has trusted me with this part of his vineyard. i can sacrafice things my whole mission, put things aside. but if im doing it because i want blessings...thats in vain! im doing no good for the reason im here. the key to become that missionary is to do things self-lessly not selfishly. becoming better because i love the people here. we are their guides back to there savior!!!
that was probably confusing but hey made sense when i wrote it down hahaha. crack up. well its been a sick week. ive been nervous goin into training but hey im lovin it. i got my boi saturday but we will get to that in a bit. leading up to saturday elder hernandez and i saw some beautiful miracles. mom...i might have a project for you:))))) ive been working on a trackting book but boy im just not that suave with the whole word thing and email time swings by pretty fast so i dont have much time to organize it suppper well BUT ill continue to try:) but hey what ive done so far has worked out SWEET. everydoor has been hispanic families! so that is awesome. we found this awesome guy florencio. hes prepared. i knew the moment i saw him. so we met him. continued to use the trackting book found two more families! that was a beautiful day. let me tell ya. so friday we went and visited all the recent converts and members and other investigators that elder hernandez wanted to say paz a fuera too less actives as well. it was great. friday night we headed over to carlos' house. i made a scripture case for carlita. she was stoked to see that and also we wanted to stop by just to say good byes. ended up having an amazing lesson with miriam jesse and carlita. we sat em down and just had a powerful lesson on how we know that they are ready to make that first sacred covenant. god prepares people. there was no coincidence that the missionaries knocked on there door...they need this. it was a powerful lesson. but still no date. it will come though. so the big day SATURDAY. 10:00 came around and the ap's showed up at the church building to pick elder mckay and i up to head to green bay for the training. elder taylor brand from holliday utah is my new comp right out of the mexico mtc. freshhhhh as fresh can be! haha its a crackup! he is actually elder gibbs neighbor! speaking of elder gibbs i saw him this week! but elder brand is great. im stoked for these next two transfers. we will see miracles. sunday we had some great new lessons lined up. florencio...we had an awesome lesson with him on his porch for a little bit. he asked the question that all missionaries love..."porque ay muchas iglesias?" thats like candy to the ears right there. elder brand is awesome. we get along great and he is stoked! there is nothing like the mtc fire!! his spanish is great! and hes excited to learn so its gonna be great! its a different experience to have to rely on my own spanish thats for sure! but i like it alot and know ill be growin lots form it.elder perkins is a man of god. at the begining of mission tour he invited us to change from just objects sitting in the pews..to agents ready to receive revelation. i had prayed to be able to have questions for mission tour because i knew i would receive answers. and all of them were answered. if i were to write em all out might take a bit longer so ill just write one that slapped me in the face real nice. haha. allll of the greatest missionaries suffered adversity even when they were at thier best. they knew their relationship with god and knew his voice. satin always comes especially when we are working hard and doin exactly what we need to do...our best. the things that i must do that we all must never cease to do...i made a list of a couple things that came to my mind as i thought about what elder perkins was teaching all of us. Never cease to call upon god. Find strength in knowing i am a son of god. Build your foundation on the savior. AND get goin...start your hike right on up the path. we all have characteristics of our heavenly father...he is trying to get us to become that person. president cutler really hit me hard when he talked about becoming consecrated. within that... to be consecrated you must seek to do things to receive blessings..but seek to do things because you really love your father in heaven. that is tough eh? ya it is. but as ive began to think about it and try my hardest to apply it shooot im so much happier. thats something else that hit me hard this week as well. we got home from mission tour late...and i said my personal prayers and really asked my heavenly father for help. ive been quiiiite nervous to start the whole training thing...but the spirit definently comforted me as prayed to lay down my weaknesses at the feet of my savior. cause man..im so imperfect but i know he can help me so much..he can make me perfect. he can lift me to that next height. but i received a strong answer to my prayers that night... just as our savior put his will on the alter for all of us...for me. i have to put my will on the alter, as a representative of the one who did it for me and for the whole world. he has trusted me with this part of his vineyard. i can sacrafice things my whole mission, put things aside. but if im doing it because i want blessings...thats in vain! im doing no good for the reason im here. the key to become that missionary is to do things self-lessly not selfishly. becoming better because i love the people here. we are their guides back to there savior!!!
a mission is a beautiful thing family! i love it! so flippin much. fall is here some trees are red and super orange! ill try and get some pics....wierd to see colors haha. but hey i love you all and love this gospel.....ITS ALL TRUE. i challenge everyone to be agents this conference instead of just objects! say hi to grandma for me tell her i love her! its great to hear she is doin better.! alright well love you all and make it a great week!
Elder Haprer-Smith
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