With a child on the way, being a pregnant father feels rather good (my second greenie.) Really exciting actually.
Elder Schindler is going to Eskilstuna, opening the way for me to get a completely new companion direct from the states. I will pick him up Wednesday morning from T-Central, and I am absolutely stoked.
I'm stoked for many reasons. In nearing the final stages of the training of Elder Schindler, I've looked back and seen how much I've learned with him. This is exemplified in Isaiah 55:8-9 - his thoughts are higher than ours. I've read that many a time, but in no other week was it as true as this week, as I really trusted him. . and I've come out very excited for the future, and very ready.
This is interesting to me, because there are some days where I feel all is falling apart, I'm not doing enough and I'm going to forever regret not trying my hardest. Then I re-evaluate, get back on track, and after getting my mind on a functioning level again I'm happy, and want to work and the future is so bright! I love it! I've figured out how to do this, and it's truly is so exciting.
The latest and greatest in the message of the Mission President are two things; Every companionship baptizing monthly, and right now they have an entire stress management program they're blasting out and having repeated Zone Conferences for. Too bad I beat them to the punch with my mind organization game.
In any case the baptizing monthly thing has got all the missionaries thinking, and I am in a position where I've been here for 16 months. I know what I'm doing, I can speak the language fine. . and now (it was always this, but I feel even more so this is true) it's just a matter of faith. How much faith do we have to do these miracles?
And that's why I'm so excited to get this new greenie, because of the amount of faith that they exude. . and the faith I have built over these last few weeks to do the dang thing.
I learned a lot this week through the Spirit. I had a few times where I was frustrated with my companion, but earlier this week I had recieved in the mail a small chocolate wrapper that said, ''Do All Things With Love.'' A simple message, but I had the idea to tape it next to a picture of the Atonement that I have, and those two messages together were strong. During this moment of frustration with my companion, that came to me strong and the thought ''Christ died for him.'' It was humbling, sobering, and made the small thing that urked me so bad simply fade away.
A method I'm going to keep applying for whenever anger, or negative thoughts come up.
I also broke the Jakobsberg curse this week. Ever since I got to the Jakobsberg ward I've had a difficult time talking. My introduction was tough in front of sacrament meeting, I taught a lesson that was shaky, there was a translating day that I've never struggled so bad in, even a simple announcement to the ward about the släktforskning threw me off my game one week, and it seemed every week was difficult to connect with the members, or talk well in front of people in some way. I felt very humbled, and wasn't sure why I was going through all this as I was trying hard, and preparing well.
I made this mistake of telling Lars Nilsson, the first counselor this. He told me that I had a 15 minutes talk the next sunday after fast Sunday. Which was yesterday. . and after talking to him about focusing on speaking skills. . I prepared well and got up and gave one of the better talks I felt I've given on my mission.
. . and as I said in the talk, I'm not sure why I go through all my strange spiritual trials. I feel temporally I've always been blessed, but spiritually I've had to fight. Although it's been super jobbigt (hard), a lot of the time. I've learned so much. I've learned how to enlist God and manage any problem that comes at me.
I'm thankful for this Gospel. Love this Gospel. . and love all of you!
Ha det fint!
-Äldste Sargent
Elder Schindler is going to Eskilstuna, opening the way for me to get a completely new companion direct from the states. I will pick him up Wednesday morning from T-Central, and I am absolutely stoked.
I'm stoked for many reasons. In nearing the final stages of the training of Elder Schindler, I've looked back and seen how much I've learned with him. This is exemplified in Isaiah 55:8-9 - his thoughts are higher than ours. I've read that many a time, but in no other week was it as true as this week, as I really trusted him. . and I've come out very excited for the future, and very ready.
This is interesting to me, because there are some days where I feel all is falling apart, I'm not doing enough and I'm going to forever regret not trying my hardest. Then I re-evaluate, get back on track, and after getting my mind on a functioning level again I'm happy, and want to work and the future is so bright! I love it! I've figured out how to do this, and it's truly is so exciting.
The latest and greatest in the message of the Mission President are two things; Every companionship baptizing monthly, and right now they have an entire stress management program they're blasting out and having repeated Zone Conferences for. Too bad I beat them to the punch with my mind organization game.
In any case the baptizing monthly thing has got all the missionaries thinking, and I am in a position where I've been here for 16 months. I know what I'm doing, I can speak the language fine. . and now (it was always this, but I feel even more so this is true) it's just a matter of faith. How much faith do we have to do these miracles?
And that's why I'm so excited to get this new greenie, because of the amount of faith that they exude. . and the faith I have built over these last few weeks to do the dang thing.
I learned a lot this week through the Spirit. I had a few times where I was frustrated with my companion, but earlier this week I had recieved in the mail a small chocolate wrapper that said, ''Do All Things With Love.'' A simple message, but I had the idea to tape it next to a picture of the Atonement that I have, and those two messages together were strong. During this moment of frustration with my companion, that came to me strong and the thought ''Christ died for him.'' It was humbling, sobering, and made the small thing that urked me so bad simply fade away.
A method I'm going to keep applying for whenever anger, or negative thoughts come up.
I also broke the Jakobsberg curse this week. Ever since I got to the Jakobsberg ward I've had a difficult time talking. My introduction was tough in front of sacrament meeting, I taught a lesson that was shaky, there was a translating day that I've never struggled so bad in, even a simple announcement to the ward about the släktforskning threw me off my game one week, and it seemed every week was difficult to connect with the members, or talk well in front of people in some way. I felt very humbled, and wasn't sure why I was going through all this as I was trying hard, and preparing well.
I made this mistake of telling Lars Nilsson, the first counselor this. He told me that I had a 15 minutes talk the next sunday after fast Sunday. Which was yesterday. . and after talking to him about focusing on speaking skills. . I prepared well and got up and gave one of the better talks I felt I've given on my mission.
. . and as I said in the talk, I'm not sure why I go through all my strange spiritual trials. I feel temporally I've always been blessed, but spiritually I've had to fight. Although it's been super jobbigt (hard), a lot of the time. I've learned so much. I've learned how to enlist God and manage any problem that comes at me.
I'm thankful for this Gospel. Love this Gospel. . and love all of you!
Ha det fint!
-Äldste Sargent