hello all again!! how are you all???

 

This week has just been like what the heck happened kinda for me! as in some how total we only taught 10 lessons...like total! haha. we worked for like 7 hours everyday as well. Seriously no one was home except for the kids that don’t work. Everyone else was working. Or they just said they were busy and said to come back later but in the area you can’t go back that same day because the houses are too far away from each other.  So the first part of the week I was just kinda down. Felt like I was just wasting time and not progressing still. Then on Friday I just got done with my self doubting and what not and just started smiling at everyone...talking to everyone and if I didn’t understand them I just shook my head and acted like I knew what they were talking about. I actually think my conversational skills improved alot and a couple members seem closer to me I think! haha. I wish I would have figured that out like 3-4 months ago! haha. But as for this past week yeah I was just very mingaw(poor) We don’t know what happened.

 

But as for our investigators I think this area is just going to need some miracles soon.  I realized yesterday that I’ve been here for 4 months and I haven't had any baptisms. I then realized that I haven’t had one progressing investigator here yet. Baptisms I can handle. You know the time comes for those but at least one investigator that keeps commitments would be nice. I don’t know how to help these people. I feel like I could if I could teach like I can in English but that’s not working too well for me yet so I’m just waiting for some time in the mission to just be a teacher and not a robotic teacher.  Maybe it’s the area, maybe it’s me.  Not sure. But whatever it is I think it’s just going to need some miracles. 

 

But don’t worry! I’m not down. I think I found a groove for me to see progression and actually progress these next few months. I just gotta keep doing my thing.  I’m actually excited for this week cause I’m going to just live with no regrets. If I mess up who cares. I’m American, of course I don’t know this language but hey I’m giving it my best and that’s where the blessings come. Its like P-90X. That’s a hard work out.  You cant jump in on day one without working out before and succeed every repetition with ease. But as you keep doing it and going hard, by day 90 you’re just ripped. Maybe you didn’t see progression while doing the program but others did. Then when you look back you see a bunch! haha. That’s my new program. M-2yrX. M- missionary! It’s worked for others that have worked hard so that’s my program. Work hard. Play hard. Live with no regrets!! 

 

Cant believe it has been 6 months on my mission already! Crazy. 1/4 done! Man time just goes by fast. But it’s good. I like time running fast but I just gotta run with it! I love this place here. The food, the people, the scenery. Sometimes it’s not the best but overall it’s the place to be! haha. I love this gospel..  the scriptures, the prophets, the happiness and the joy that I benefit from having it!  The church is true people. If you don't know it...figure it out. If you do know it..cling to it. That’s all I can say!

 

Looking forward to this next year and a half! I love all of you

 

Love,

 

Elder Sargent!

 

Me and elder pulsipher just trying on some crocs at the crocs store in bacolod! haha

this is me in bacolod last week. we ran into a missionary couple and they happen to be in uncle rays ward up in bountiful. i guess he was their home teacher.

Hey Everyone. sorry my letter is a little late this week but ive been in bacolod all day cause Elder Delos Santos needed a Xray for his depature in June so we have been at the Hospital all morning waiting then lunch and a alittle shopping but i didnt buy anything cause i didnt find anything. i was looking for a nice indoor/outdoor basketball like a spalding or willson but they didnt have anything good. i was also looking for a pull up bar but it was like 2000 pesos and huge so it wasnt worth any of my money! haha. but lunch was good. i wanted to go to Mcdonalds and get a Hamburger but we decided to go to a chicken and unlimited rice place cause it was much cheeper. it was way good though!

So Jealous mom and dad are in La Jolla right now! after my mission in the month of November i plan on going there then maybe hitting up the Christmas Devo in SLC! haha thats my plan for after mission but for right now i just got to take it day by day and progress to become better missionary.

So this week has been pretty good. a lot better then the last and it was pretty good. So just pretty much the same thing over and over. the Investigators we are teaching still aren't progressing when the say they'll do stuff. 

Bro Jomare- amo na gihapon(same as always). we continue to stop by and he continues to enjoy our lessons and ask great questions but he wont come to church. he has a baptismal date now for may 18th but just cause he doesn't keep they commitments I'm not sure if it will happen.

Sis Lovely's kids- there 10 and 8. not much to progress. we are just trying to work with the Parents and get them to church. they said they would both go and we even texted them Saturday night and they still said they'd go but they didn't. we stopped by later that day and they just said yeah we didn't feel like it. we didn't have money. just the same old same old. 

We taught a few first lessons this past week so hopefully i can report more to you all on them next week.  we taught a lot this week to new investigators trying to find some that we think are ready and willing to act on our message so hopefully we can continue to find more and teach more and have some success in this area! haha.

Its not the people that are bad. the people are great. just humble people that are poor but just there life style they aren't willing to give up anything for anything. they would just rather sit around all day and not really do anything. They say they will but in turn they don't. That's the hardest part about this area. Its just the people don't see the importance on acting on things because they never have had to act for anything. they've just grown up that way so i cant blame the people but just the lifestyle and the lifestyle of the area! budlay gid sia(its very hard)! haha!

But the work is going better. its a lot better with Elder Delos Santos then before my first 2 transfers.  Its hard to believe almost 6 months are now done and time will only get faster.  This past week I've seen myself through different eyes. I've been trying to connect with the people a lot better and find simple ways to connect with them and when i do that they seem to open up to me better and listen to me more.  I've seen the Future Elder Sargent and the impact that I can have on these people if I don't ever give up and give it my all to do this work but more importantly  do this work for this people here. I think the mission will only get better now and now is the time to really just go for it and do all I can to learn everything there is. if i wait any longer I fear it will be to late! so that's my plan! and as  do that I can promise my self that this will be the best two years of my life!

I'm thankful for all of your support and love that I feel here across the world! I'm thankful for this gospel and the happiness and the joy it brings to me and for the knowledge I have that it can bring that to other people.  I'm so thankful for my progression that I have had this week and pray that it will only progress more and not decrease! Salamat ko sa tanan mga bugay nga ang ginuo nagahatag sa akon adlaw-adlaw.(im thankful for all the blessings the Lord gives to me daily. I know this work is true and I'm proud to be here in the Bacolod Philippines Mission!

Love you all!

Elder Sargent

P.S-  Sorry waay pictures... waay time to send them! (waay-no/none)

 

Hello everyone! I hope you are all doing good. I’m doing okay! This past week was a little rough for me but General Conference definitely turned that around and now I’m  doing great! 

 

So last week was just kinda hard for me. I felt like I was just being tried in every way possible. Just little things were getting under my skin. I was just struggling with the language  just little differences in the culture with me and Elder Delos Santos. Just being way tired and just the members.  I can’t really explain it but I just think I was very stressed with everything... just feeling behind the pace... not really sure if I’m progressing like I should or could but yet I feel like I try everything I can but things don’t come to me even when I pray hard and work hard. I really think this last week was just the Lord’s way of testing me and humbling me even more to really call upon Him and wait for His time.  But hopefully this week goes better and I know my purpose more because I feel like I was able to get a lot of unknowns-questions I had answered at conference. Funny how you pray for one thing but your answer was actually something way different. I still haven’t watched Saturday or Priesthood cause President wouldn’t allow us to go. I was a little mad about that just cause it’s only the Prophet and Apostles speaking to us, but I guess I’ll just wait for the April Liahona to get to me so I can read them. 

 

But besides last week we had an interesting week.  haha

 

This story illustrated here will just explains this area to perfection:

 

So all week we were excited to go teach Sister Lovely again and we did. Her and her husband (Bro. Joel- member:but inactive) have been living in Manilla for the past like 25 years so they were just all speaking Tagolog meanwhile I’m sitting there just lost but just kinda whatever cause it was Tagalog but once we started the lesson Elder Delos Santos asked if we could speak only in Illongo or Cebuano cause I don’t know Tagolog. haha (i dont know illongo or cebuano either!) jokes. just illongo! But the lesson was mostly Cebuano still. But I was able to follow.. didn’t really understand. But as we started the lesson we were just laying out all the ground rules for baptism and then out of nowhere she’s just like I’ve already been baptized. We were like what??? THE LADY HAS ALREADY BEEN BAPTIZED!!! idk know why she didn’t tell us but we were just like are you kiding me! haha. It was kinda funny but we are still going to teach them all again cause they don’t remember anything and they actually have two kids that are above 8 years old we may baptize if the lessons go good!! haha. That just explains this area. Sometimes its just like "do these people think" haha! I think things are only going to get better from this area. People have said that Minapasok is the hardest area in the mission just cause its way bukkid the people are uneducated, unmotivated, and don’t do anything. Maybe Tyler Sumner Can relate to that! haha. what was his first area by the way!

 

But family I guess that’s my story for the week. The other investigators weren’t home the 2-3 times we stopped by this week so that was a little bad but hopefully we can get them this week. 

 

So family! I know that this work is true. I know that this church is true and is run by Jesus Christ! It’s such a good feeling to have that knowledge. I realize happiness comes to those that know.  What a true fact. Like seriously this work is very challenging at times. Especially for the brain. Sometimes I want to quit and just go home but for some reason I’m still always happy. I never knew why but I’ve realized that it’s because again happiness comes to those that know. What I know, I can’t deny.  Because I know these things, I know there is a bigger picture that I can’t see and I know that I just have to endure and give it my best. It’s like in the Book of Mormon and in the Bible... those that believe and have faith are healed through miracles or produce miracles. I know that miracles can’t be produced without Jesus Christ at the center of everything.  I know that and that’s what brings me happiness!

 

I love you all. I miss you all. I love this work and continue to love... its all my life!  Just not right now!

 

Love you all!

 

Elder Sargent!

 

I guess you could call us the Mormon Batallion or just the MPA(thats the rebel army that lives in my area!) no big deal! haha

hey everyone!! how are you all! how was conference?? I don't get to watch it until next week because of the time change but I'm so looking forward to it! I wish I kinda got to watch it live cause I feel behind the ties now although I'm living in the future but its kinda weird! I hope you all enjoyed and ill make sure to take good notes and then report next week.  I only have three more conferences and I'm home. Weird though that I'm about three weeks off from my six month mark. time goes by pretty fast. And Natalie is home in like 5 months. crazy! But family I'm doing good right now.  This week was pretty good. we have a investigator with a baptismal date and maybe another this next week. ill talk about that more later on in the letter but I almost was going to die this week! I had Kidney stones! So crazy story!  

Haha. So earlier this week I thought I had UTI cause when I went to the bathroom I thought I had the burning feeling then on top of that i always had the need to go but couldn't or just dribbled a little.  so I started taking some ibuprofen and loading up on water but I still had the feeling. then about on Thursday after noon I had some pain in the lower back on the right side but only for a few minutes so I didn't think anything of it. Then Friday it was the same thing and just a little worse burning when peeing. But I slept through it and woke up on Saturday feeling fine. Then around 430 that afternoon I started getting excruciating pain in my back and it just killed. I called the mission nurse and she just said take more ibuprofen and drink a lot more water and hopefully that can take some pain away in the back.  But the pain didn't cease at all. It just keep moving around the lower back and finally worked its way to the front right in the abdominal area.  And that's when it just took off.  By that time it was about 630 and we were in the middle of a lesson and I was just breathing hard without breath just sweating and trying not to disrupt the lesson. Luckily the people have no electricity so they couldn't see my face but I'm sure I was just in pain.  After that lesson I seriously was just moaning and semi yelling (kinda like tennis groans and moans.. haha!) walking back into town were we could take a 10 min motor back to our apartment. on the way back on the motor I had to pull over cause I had to throw up and even that didn't help the pain. So I got back on the motor and got back to the apartment threw up two more times.  I called the mission nurse again and they told me they were going to drive two hours to pick me up and get me to the Emergency room cause they knew I had kidneys. She is a Nurse and her husband is a retired Pharmacist so they knew the symptoms.  Finally around 1030 still in pain they picked me up and hopped in the truck and we all went into Sagay to the Emergency room.  They loaded me up on some pain medicine and gave me some anti inflammatory pills for the burning when peeing and told me to drink lots and lots of water. That night and on Sunday we stayed in Sagay at another missionary apartment and camped out there and are still here in Sagay but are returning home today to Minapasok.  The doctor told me if I still had pain on Monday to come back and they'd run an ultra sound to see if I had a stone in there stuck but I'm pretty sure it's passed now.  I don't have any pain and so that's good! I'm going to stay on ibuprofen and water for the next few days but that's my story! Kinda crazy! I'm way tired now though. I think my body is just kinda in a hangover shock stage but I should be good! 

So that's that! oh and also we went out to church in Sagay and I was talking to the members and pretty much understood everything they said to me except a few words and I've decided its just the language they speak in my area is a lot harsher sounding and 80% Cebuano. I think I'll be good with the language but I just gotta keep working harder! haha! 

This week was pretty good though. We have been working with our investigators and we have a new investigator with a baptismal date. Her name is Sis. Lovely. Her husband is a less active and from Manilla and so we stopped by her house and she was there so we just committed her to baptism which she said yes to. hopefully we can progress with her and really get her committed! 

Our other investigators are doing good.

We are dropping Bro Simeon. all he does is debate and ask ridiculous questions like how many spirits we have in our body or where peter the apostle is right now.  haha. 

Bro Jomare. He's doing good. He's very interested in our message but for some reason whenever we teach him there is always a distraction for him. Like I mentioned last week a lady came in and just started debating then this week they had some visitors over that he didn't even know and then in the middle of the lesson they just interrupted us and were trying to get him to stop the lesson so they could get a ride home on his motor so we had to end the lesson short.  

Besides that's about it here in the mission life. I think I'm doing good.  haha I don't really know how to grade myself cause I try to help these people but they don't have any desire to change or progress. its just a hard area. I'm just glad I'm here for my first area cause things can only get better from here.  but I try hard and don't let them get me down! Sorry I don't have any pictures this week. I forgot to grab my plug for transporting pictures cause I was in too much pain to think.  But everything is good. doing good and looking forward to this week! 

Know that I love you and miss you all!  See you in like 580 give or take a few!  haha. something like that! 

Love you all! 

Elder Sargent!    

Hey family! i hope your easter celebrations were good back home. they dont celebrate easter here. i didnt even remeber it was easter really at all.  but that's okay.  so this week has been pretty good.  i am in the same area stil but elder leng is gone. he is now in the La Carlotta zone down south but i have a philippino companion now as my follow up. his name is Elder Delos Santos from Manilla Area. He is a way cool guy and reminds me of Juanse! we get along real good which is good. Its also nice because he cooks for me everyday at lunch and thats definitly a bonus! its always good filipino food. i plan on him teaching me how to cook!! but he leaves in june so hes a experianced missionary. his english is okay but is kinda good casue im teaching him how to say stuff in english and hes teaching me Illongo! and he speaks cebuano and he said that here in minapasok hes been speaking about 80% cebuano cause thats what everyone speaks here. so i guess you can pretty much call my area cebuano speaking! haha. WHY ME!! 

So the language this past week for me was struggling hard. i think that its just cause with elder leng the langauage was a lot slower so i could understand him but with elder delos santos and the members they just all automatically click and just go off on fast rants in the language. its been hard for me to understand cause its just a different pace but i think thats good cause i think maybe the harder ill listen the more hopefully ican pick up! haha. but ive been studying the language like crazy the past few days just using all my books really trying to learn this langauge but when real life happens i just freeze and struggle at times.  but i know that i can do it! i think that i just progressed really well the first couple weeks then after that just didnt really know what to do but kept trying but i think that with a new switch and a philippino comp ill be able to progress! i just worry sometimes that time is just rushing away and im behind the pace. I gotta keep running unless ill be lost for real! but im going hard trying my best knowing that i can do it! 

But having Elder Delos Santos here is awesome. he clicks with the people really well and our lessons are so much better. we've stopped by our investagator Jomare Chaves and the lesson was going great there were like 20 poeple in there really engaged then this baptist lady walks in the house and just ruined the lesson kinda. she was just debating againts us that jospeh smith is a god and jesus isnt our savior. but we turned the lesson around and just tried to get our people engaged again cause they lost interest the moment she was trying to debate us.  After words we got a ride home on Jomares Motorcycle and he was like sorry about that lady. Come back next Friday and she wont be here. so i think they knew that the lady just kinda ruined it alittle! haha. but its all good! 

WELL family! thats prety much it over here in the philippines! know that i love you all and miss you all! time has flown pretty fast but im just trying to take everymoment in and enjoy it! I know that the church is true and i cant deny that! i so thankful for your support and i can feel your lve here in the philippines and it helps me get through the days the weeks the months and before i know it ill be home. long time still but for right now im here doing the lords work and thats what im going to continue doing! even after my mission! 

Love you and miss you all! 

Elder Sargent 

 

 

This is me and elder delos santos eating dog!

about the dog! that meat was so tender and good! it was seriously way good! 

 

 

Hello all again! i feel like this week is going way fast and it hard to catch up at times cause im always doing something. i just need a nice nap to slow things down! haha

So Collin Mortenson! finally he got his call!! i told elder leng i would bet anything he'd be called to california! He just looks like thats his place. is it english speaking?? i cant beleive he leaves may 1. thats so soon! but good for him! now its just down to adam. im calling hes going to brazil or manila! thats my guess! foreign for sure! 

So this week has been good! very fast but good. this week we have transfers so i have no idea whats going to happen. most likely elder leng will get transfered cause he's been here for 5 almost 6 months here in this area! but who knows! hopefully i just get a good experianced follow up trainer! thats all either of us wants and we feel like if we get that our missions will be great and on the right start jsut casue we are so unexperianced and just kinda thrown into this situation together. so its been hard but definetly a good learning experiance!! 

So this week. we struck out with Jomare Chaves. We stopped by with our branch president two times but he just works late so its hard to catch him! so our plan is to take the new missionary in this area here and just go try to teach him to the best abilities! the good part is that he speaks english so if i get lost i can say something in english but i hate speaking in english tothe members that know it cause i just feel like its a cop put. plus those are the ones that can help me with the language the most! but sometimes i have no choice if i dont know how to say it! but thats good! We finally were able to teach with Bro simeon but he just always debates us and speaks pure cebuano. I think my plan with that is just to bring a trainer up or my branch president if im here still and just go teach with them and let them show me how to do it. cause i know how to teach lessons but its hard to explain certain points or help them understand the points and doctrine cause of the language barrier sometimes! but i dont give up. im just looking forward to this next week and seeing what transfers bring me. What ever it is im going to take the best out of it and really try to make everything the best and learn this language and learn just everything of how to be a missionary. i think i have a good idea but its hard to do it sometimes with little experiance and i dont really have a model to show me how to do it! but i think i can figure it our next transfer! 

So thats pretty much it.  Just a little expericane i had and im off....

This past week me and elder leng have been working with our Branch pres and he's just been helping us with introducing topics our translations into one topic into the next and He was just talking about the First Vision and how we dont have to recite the whole thing cause they wont understand all the words so he said to just make it our own.  My mind starting wondering a little bit and i was just thinking about the whole thing and how it happened and was trying to put my self in Joseph Smiths shoes and feel like how he would tell someone he saw Jesus Christ and God and then i was putting myself in an investagators shoes and thinking what are the most important parts to tell them. I was translating it im my mind saying... "Nakita ko ang isa ka hiligi sang kasang sa ibabaw gid sa akon ulohan" (i saw a pillar of light over/above my head) then i just continued then i got to the point of ... And isa sa ila naghambal sa akon nga ginatawag ako sa akon ngalan kag nagsiling... nagatudlo sa isa. ini ang akon hinigugma nga anak. Pamatii sia.  (one of them spake unto me calling me by name and said... pointing to the other. this is my beloved son. here him.)  

I was reflecting on that and the spirit hit me hard. "Ginatawag ako sa akon ngalan." ("Calling me by name.") HOW GREAT IS THAT LINE!!! i was thinking that more importantly at that moment in time. even more important then God and Jesus appearing to Joseph is that they CALLED HIM BY NAME! proving the point that God is aware of all his Children. He knows us and he knows us by name. he knows what we need. he knows what is best for us and so he called a prophet, by name, to restore the CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST. THE TRUE CHURCH AGAIN ON THIS EARTH!!! I just cant comprehend all of what happend but what i can comprehende is the spirit that bore witness to me once again that Joseph Smith is a Prophet of God. that we have the true church on this earth and that God knows us by name. he knows us beacuse he is the father of our spirits. He is our Heavenly Father.

Well fam and friends! i love you all and i hope you know that im doing great! everyting is good with me! thanks for your sipport and i feel it! even all the way across the world! 

Love you and miss you all!

Elder Sargent! 

Sorry for my spelling! Im forgetting stuff to easily already in english! haha 

 

this is one eyed money from Harry Potter! i thought skye and dee would like this! haha

A member writes the names of missionaries on their houses and this is my name i guess! haha

yeah you could call me guapo! 

 

im really only like 4 feet up this tree! haha. we just made it look like im way higher! 

me and elder leng just on a hill! 

Hello everyone! I’m so glad that I’m here this Monday getting to email you. For some reason this was one of my more busy weeks with traveling and stuff but it has actually felt very slow moving! haha. It’s been a good week! 

 

So just to jump straight in it. I have no pictures this week! It’s one of my weekly goals to at least take two pictures a day! If I keep taking no pictures I’m going to regret it down the road! It’s just hard sometimes to think about taking pictures going from house to house! haha but this week and the weeks to come I will do the 2 or more pictures a day!

 

So Monday:

 

Monday I spent my day in Bacolod! That was way fun! Bacolod is such a fun city and just has lots of little markets with just hand crafted little things! While walking around that day I was talking to one kid in my zone.   He said "are you related to a sis sargent that served in Quezon city? I said yeah tha't’s my cousin. He said that’s my missionary! haha he said that her and her companion Sister Rolamae or Sis Rebelde taught him and I think his sister.  His name is Elder Tallano! Hopefully she remembers him.  And also his companion Elder Albao was in the ward she served in at one point! Crazy to see that Tessa's efforts are paying off and I can see them.. first hand witness! So Bacolod was nice! Lots of good food at the mission home including spaghetti and lots of ice cream. Not enough for me but still I guess some is better than none! So Zone Conference was good! Very interesting topics. Learned lots. Prez Lopez talked about agency and obedience which was good! Then sister talked about the law of tithing and the whys of why we pay tithing. The Zone leaders from two zones focused on how to introduce and teach commandments and the others taught how to perform a baptsimal interview. I liked that one cause that is something I may be doing pretty soon here in the mission and I better be able to do it whenever I am needed! I actually had the opportunity to sit in on a baptismal interview with my Zone leader, Elder Tanaggan. He is really a good elder. Has about just under two months left in his mission and I learn the most from him out of any other missionary.  Just sitting in with him in an interview... it was so cool to see him just automaticlly click with these people we interviewed, making them feel comfortable.  And he asked all the questions he needed to, but the way he asked them just weren't robotic but filled with actual interest and concern.  I learned a lot from him and it was cool to see people ready to enter into the waters of baptism this next week!

 

Speaking of waters of baptism... we still don’t have a progressing investigator but we feel so good about this Jomare Chaves guy! He speaks English which I kinda feel like the Lord was like alright if you get lost in your lessons just speak English! Here he is- now go teach. We both feel that way about him.  He asks so many questions and I know he is worried about his salvation.  He was asking about who's Alma and who is Mormon. Is Joseph Smith a God or a prophet. He's heard a lot about our churh just through rumors and just really wants to know. He is Baptist, but he doesn’t debate us like Bro Simeon. Bro Jomare knows the bible pretty well and always quotes scriptures and asks if we beleive that. The other day he was driving us home on his motor and he said you know elders I believe all that you have said so far! Hearing that was a relief for me and I know Heavenly Father is instrumental in putting him in our hands for working hard and not losing faith these past 10 weeks!  We are planning on stoppping by and teaching him twice this week about prophets, Joseph Smith the Book of Mormon! Just everything and just really answer his questions and getting him to church and tani(hopfeully) with a baptism date! We taught him last Friday and the lesson was a little rough. We took too long with getting into the lesson and struggled with the langauge a little and he kept asking questions about  Prophets and what not so after the lesson I was a little down hearted. It was really the first time in my mission were I have felt inadequate to do this work. I went home that night and was reading in Ether and came across the famous Ether 12:27  "And if men come unto me I will show unto them their weakness. I give unto men weakness that they may be humbled; and my grace is sufficient for all men that humble themselves before me; for if they humble themselves before me, and have faith in me, then will I make weak things become strong unto them."  I really thought about that and wondered where in my life I can humble myself.  Then yesterday in Church we actually had stake conference and it was Satellite from Salt lake for the Southern Philippines. The speakers were David F Evans of the Seventy, Sis Coon or Cook form the YW general presidncy and Elder Holland and Robert D Hales. I’ve never really gotten into Hales before just cause he's always been slower delivery or I’ve just fallen asleep on the couch during conference, but as he was speaking I felt like I should just focus in on him real hard.  As I did this his talk was good but didn’t seem to click or  apply to me in the way I wanted when at that same time I thought to zone out he said.... "All great missionaries feel inadequate. This is the Lords way of building them up to what He wants them to be as long as they trust in Him."  That hit me really hard.  It was an answer to my prayers. Humbling doesn’t mean just becoming poor in heart or poor in spirit, but what it really means to me is just totally, 100%, full heart trusting, in the Lord to guide HIS work. Not me guiding my work or His work but Him guiding His work and me just being the instrument or tool that he uses to accompish HIS work.

 

I'm so thankful for prophets and apostles and for their guidance in the Lords work to help me with my trials or my many inadequacies. I've realized that answers to prayers don’t always come in feeling, but in acting and listening, thoughts and words. I’m so very thankful for this work and for the oppurtunity that I have to be an instrument in the Lords hands. 

 

That’s my letter... that’s my time... that’s my week! Hope you enjoyed!

 

Love you all and miss you all!

 

Love

 

Elder Sargent