What is going on everyone! Twas a pretty good week this last one was. Spring has come, trees are blooming, the Sun is shining, and the Hudson Valley is starting to live up to its reputation. We had the opportunity to have a general authority come to our mission (virtually still) and give us trainings throughout the week and it was so awesome, but I'll get to that in a second so let's jump in:
Where do I begin hmmm... oh I know! Monday night we had an fun lesson with this older couple at there house. A little background on them, they aren't members but absolutely love the missionaries. They have been having them over for a couple of years now and treat us like we are there kids which is always nice. We did a little Bible study with them on the Beatitudes and they loved it.
Mission Tour:
Elder Bennett who is the area President came and gave trainings to our mission through this past week. That involved three 2 hour long zoom calls with one 4 hour long one. But that didn't really phase me at all because he gave such amazing trainings. How we do missionary work and what missionary work is is taking a big ol' shift. I wouldn't say its changing per say, but adapting to how the world is changing. And the 6 short days it has been in play has brought some amazing miracles. I'll share one short miracle with you all. Elder Bennett invited us after the first day to pray more times in a day then we ever have before so we took his invitation. We set a goal to say a prayer before and after every contact we made, after we planned what message we were going to share with a person to see if that's what we should still share and for whatever else we were doing. As we did that we noticed that people were answering off the charts, it was amazing!
There is a video that the church put out a couple months ago about a guy training to run a 100 mile race in the desert. He talks about how everyone thought he was crazy and how they laughed at him for trying to do this seemingly impossible task. I'm going to pause right here for a second and tell you to think back on President Nelson's talk about how we can move mountains in our lives. Did you do that? Good, let's move on. This guy continues to train and for the first couple weeks of running early mornings in the desert he felt amazing. Then he started running later in the day and he said, "I felt something I have never felt before. The desert does unimaginable things." Thirsty, hot and sweaty as can be he felt as if he was not capable of accomplishing this. He turned to God in prayer and asked for strength and realized that he was looking at this all the wrong way. He said, "Our Great Adventure (life) isn't a sprint, but a marathon. Here I was expecting a flat easy course but it's not that way whatsoever. But as we turn to God (have faith, refer to President Nelson's talk) all things are possible.
I hope you all have a great week and Remember to keep Smiling!
Tangiringkami ni kabane ao Tia boo moa!
Elda Jeppson
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