"Where fear is faith has no power." -Joseph Smith
Ok what a week! First, I’m here with my new companion, Anziano
Cremonesi. He's da bomb! Ha-ha-ha. No he’s a really cool guy.
We're actually very similar in how we act and things that we like.
He eats really healthy!!!! He likes to run, and even wakes up 30 minutes
early to have more time to run!!!!!!!! And we're both really levelheaded.
He's also 24!
To tell the truth it's really nice to have an added level of
maturity in our work. I hope that we'll be together for at least 2
transfers but I think that it will just be one because then they will put 2
more missionaries in the city and we will have to teach them the city.
Well this week went pretty well. We've been trying for a
couple weeks to fix a baptismal date or 2 or 3 or 4or 5 and finally our efforts
have paid off, or at least are starting to pay off. Yesterday we set a
date with Lloyd. We've been asking almost everyone we see to accept a
date or preparing them to accept one because without that goal, you have no
objective, nowhere to shoot for. So finally our efforts are having some
kind of effect. It makes me think about something that I studied this
past week.
I was thinking about that quote that says "our greatest fear is
not that we are weak, but that we are powerful beyond measure." And
it really is true. Just like Pres. Uchtdorf says, we have the seeds of
godhood in us. For example, we are able to love like Christ did but maybe
we are just too selfish and we don't want to find out just how much we can love
those around us. Then I started thinking about how we can overcome this
fear of our true potential and the quote from the lectures on faith came to
mind where Joseph Smith said, "Where fear is faith has no power."
So what we have to do is overcome our fear and once we do that our faith
will begin to take effect and we'll be able to reach our full potential.
In 1 John 4:18 it says that perfect love casteth out fear.
There is no fear in love. If we love God, our neighbor, and
ourselves we won't fear. I feel like this is what we've had to do
to start getting these baptismal dates and also it's what we've had to help our
investigators do in order to help them have the faith to accept a date.
We've had to love them and help them love themselves.
We have our mission tour this Friday with Anziano Kent F. Richards.
It should be a very wonderful experience. You might not believe it but
we're going to sleep in a hotel!!! Livin the sweet life! Ha-ha I'll let you
know how it goes.
Thank you all so much for all that you have done and are doing to
help me in every way. You are the best!!!! I love you so much!
Abby, don't skip class on Friday!!!! And let me know right away where you're going!
Luke 16:10 He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he
that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.
Have a great week. I love you. Ciao!
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"Look inside yourself, you're more than what you've become.
Remember who you are." The Lion King
Anziano Stewart
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