We were heading to visit some one and then felt like we should go visit a less active family. We went and met them for the first time and found out that they had a non member son living with them with his wife who is about to have a baby! We set up an appointment to go back.
On friday we taught the restoration to the family and the daughter in law who was a little quiet but really receptive. On Saturday the hermanas by chance ended up going to teach them and taught lesson 2. and they were committed to going to church on sunday but didn´t show... Last night we went by and taught a little better about the book of mormon and the spirit giving us answers. She had read the part we left her and accepted to reading 3 Nephi 11. She has been with lots of pain and is really nervous about having the baby because she lost a baby a little while back.
For a couple weeks now we´d been expecting it, and on saturday afternoon it became official. President called elder garcia and asked him to be assistant. He left on sundayafter lunch. He´ll be a great ap. I verified and recieved transfers with him that night haha.
I have staying with me a guy from the stake that´s about to leave for his mission to mexico. He´s way excited about going on the mission and is trying to learn everything he can. So transfers were pretty crazy! Lots of areas being opened, areas being washed, people staying in areas that have been there for 3 transfers and people leaving that have been in areas for a transfer. It´s pretty exciting to see everything happening and I feel like we´re going to have a really good zone this transfer! My comp is going to be Elder Garcia. again!!! But this elder garcia has a transfer more than me and is from Chile. It´s the first time that i´ll have a comp with more time than me since elder gibbons haha, but elder Garcia is just going up as zl so i´ll be training him in that. I´ve heard good things about him and am excited to start working with him this week!
So a few months ago, a friend from college sent me a talk and told me to read it. I didn´t read it but then last week a brother in our ward mentioned the talk and then an elder at mission counsel was reading it so i felt like i should print it off and last week at cyber i did. It´s called the fourth missionary by Elder Corbridge of the seventy. He talks about four different types of missionaries.
The first two, disobedient, don´t help others really, and aren´t changed.
The third, obedient and worthy, works with all of his might and strength, has success in the mission, does what the Lord wants him to but wants to do other things, the grit and grin method. but he himself doesn´t actually change much at all because his mind and heart aren´t in the work, he is constantly having an internal struggle between what he wants to do and what the Lord wants to do. He works hard for 2 years but goes home with regret.
The fourth missionary is very similar to the third missionary. He is obedient and worthy, has success, gives up his own desires and gives them to the Lord. He gives his mind and heart to the Lord and that way the Lord can actually change him. Because God can´t work with something that He doesn´t have. The third missionary isn´t perfect and isn´t necesarily the best missionary ever, but accomplishes the Lord´s will with the people around him and in his own self because he turns himself over to the Lord. Anybody can be the fourth missionary. All it takes is to make up your mind. In the long run it´s a lot easier because you don´t have to go through regret and pain. The fourth missionary is happy, and blessed eternally for his mission.
As i read this talk, sooo many things that i´ve seen and experienced on the mission became so much clearer. And gave me a better direction for what I want to do but more importantly who I want to become these next 5.5 months that are left. I recommend it to all of you. It´s for missionaries but can totally be applied to anybody in your callings and lives. the fourth missionary it´s called.
I love this work, my testimony grows of it every day. I know that if we can have a soft heart we can learn and grow in knowledge and through that knowledge our faith can also grow and we can become instruments in the hands of the master.
I love you all,
Elder Fullmer
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