Yeah, p-day seems to come around faster and faster each week. This week flew by!
It was a pretty busy week with a lot of meetings! Wednesday, we had the opportunity to go to the stake center and watch the worldwide mission broadcast at the Stake Center in Mishawaka. The broadcast was only 2 hours long, and we heard from Elder Andersen, Elder Bednar, Elder Oaks, Elder Clayton, and more general authorities. One of the biggest things I took out of it was from a discussion that Elder Bednar had with missionaries from the Ogden mission. One of the missionaries said that it's our responsibility to bring the Spirit and take it into the hearts of the people. But he emphasized that we can't take it "into" their hearts, because they have to let it in. Just as 2 Nephi 33:1 says, we carry "it unto the hearts of the children of men." Sometimes we try so hard to forcefully push the Spirit of the gospel into the hearts of our investigators, but we need to help them recognize the Spirit so they can let it in.
On Friday we were able to go back down to Warsaw to some appointments we had set up last week. We taught E and brought a Hispanic member from the Warsaw ward with us, Hno Viera. It turns out, that about 3 years ago, Hno Viera had already been to her house to bless her home! They remembered each other and got along great! We taught her a lot about prayer and she really wants to learn more about God and the gospel. She's not too interested in coming to church yet, but we'll keep working with her. We also went by an investigator named R. She lives in a trailer park and said she wants to turn her life over to Jesus. She said that as she has learned more about God, she's seen changes in her life for the better and she wants more of that for herself and her family. We're excited to teach her again next week, and hopefully we can bring a member with us this time.
We had a really early morning on Saturday. We woke up at 4 a.m in order to head down to Indy at 5 a.m. so we could get there by 8 for a meeting we had at the chapel by the temple. We went down for the "JustServe" training. All the MLC (Zone Leaders and Sister Training Leaders) attended along with all the members of the stake council from the various stakes in the mission. "JustServe" is a new initiative the church is taking in order to get members and non-members more involved in service in the community. They emphasized to us that it's not a proselyting initiative, but solely to get people more involved in service opportunities. The website, justserve.org, is a website where you can get on and find/volunteer for local service opportunities, but we're not going to be able to get it started until each individual stake starts posting service projects. I don't know if they've started it in Utah yet, but they said they did it in many parts of California and it was a huge success. So I'm looking forward to this opportunity for us as missionaries to participate and find more ways to do service in the community.
That's all that really happened this week! We're still trudging along in the cold and working hard as we hope for success. Have fun with the nephews in the house and I hope you have a great week. Love you!
Elder Thayne
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