who tells us to follow the savior! And laughs with a twinkle in his eye!"
(Copyright Elder Meanea, 2019)
Monday, 2 April 2018
Today was a pretty fun P-Day, I haven't been a disappointment to Elder Bode yet! We went and looked at some malls (there are at least 3 major ones in our area) and ended up at this store called "Decathalon." It's basically all the sporting goods you could ever want at missionary-affordable prices. So I am slowly replacing the running shorts I've been wearing for nearly 6 years now with new ones. You can't say I didn't make them last. And then the night was contacting around the city. All in all, a pretty good day.
Today was a pretty fun P-Day, I haven't been a disappointment to Elder Bode yet! We went and looked at some malls (there are at least 3 major ones in our area) and ended up at this store called "Decathalon." It's basically all the sporting goods you could ever want at missionary-affordable prices. So I am slowly replacing the running shorts I've been wearing for nearly 6 years now with new ones. You can't say I didn't make them last. And then the night was contacting around the city. All in all, a pretty good day.
Tuesday, 3 April 2018
We had a really cool lesson with an old investigator, Sister Wu. She is a little older, and started coming because a recent convert friend of her said she was going to church and she wanted to come as well. She has been baptized 3 times already in different churches, so she's a little slow on commiting to do it again, but we had a great lesson to help her understand the importance of acting on the things that God tells her to do, and she agreed to bring a question she wanted answered to conference!
Wednesday, 4 April 2018
Miracles. Today we went to the funeral of a member who got in a car accident last week. He was more advanced in age, but it was still sad to see him pass away. The miracle though, came from the example of the family who lost him. After the funeral that day bishop called me over and said there was somebody he wanted me to meet. It was a more somber looking young adult who had been in the back for the whole funeral. He said he was interested in learning about the gospel, and that was all I needed to hear. We shared a little bit about how we can all pray, prayed with him, and set up to meet the next day so he could learn more about his relationship with God. Afterwards the Bishop explained that the young man was the person who hit the member accidentally. He's facing a man-slaughter charge, and if the family had decided to sue him, because of Taiwanese law he would automatically get 2 years in prison. But the family all forgave him, and nobody from the ward hated him. This was incredible for him to experience, and he literally looked at me and said "I want to know why you people are the way you are." God prepares a way.
Thursday, 5 April 2018
I held a district training meeting today, it was about "go about doing good," which is a section in Preach my Gospel I would invite EVERYONE to go and take a look at. It talks basically about living our religion and always watching out for those around us and ways we can help them. If you are learning about your new task in ministering to others from conference, I would suggest you go to page 168 of Preach my Gospel and study about ways the Lord would have you serve your brothers and sisters.
Friday, 6 April 2018
Weekly planning and interviews with President today. It was all pretty good! I really enjoyed my interview with president, he taught me a lot about how we and the Lord are the ones that know what we need to change to come closer to Him. It's really hard for others to see that. He encouraged me to find a time and a place to really ponder what things in my life are keeping me from being closer to the Savior, and in prayer try to understand how I can get past that.
Saturday, 7 April 2018
CONFERENCE. I could just copy and paste everything I wrote down in my notes and it wouldn't be enough to communicate how amazing this time was. The Spirit was there during the solemn assembly, and it was pretty special that this is the first time I actually had a chance as an adult who really understand what is going on to sustain our new prophet for the first time. I wanted a witness of the Spirit that he is God's prophet, and I believe I felt the Spirit while sutaining him, but I also had the impression that if I really wanted to know for myself, I would have to study it out. And president has given us a challenge to begin reading all of President Nelson's talks for ourself. If you want to do so, here's a really useful link to all his conference talks.
https://www.lds.org/general-conference/speakers?speaker=Russell-M.-Nelson&lang=eng&encoded=true
Sunday, 8 April 2018
The end of conference. I get so excited for it and it's over so fast! But I really believe I learned a lot about what the Lord would have me do to be more a missionary that can serve Him these last three months. I know that He inspires us and watches out for us always. I love you all so much friends and family. This is Christ's church, and the Book of Mormon is the tool God gave me to come and know Him for myself. I hope we will all treasure and use it as it was meant to be used.
-Elder Meanea
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