Thanks for the recipes and substitutes. I am baking more than I ever have
in my life because there is no cheap alternative. Our baking pan is terrible
though and everything burns to the pan but is raw on top. We don't have enough
time to bake at a sufficiently low temperature. I haven't really had time to look for camera stuff but I
have been told it is hard to find anything that isn't a Samsung. How much would
it cost to send it to me? It might not be worth it.
I wasn't really sure why I shared that part about planning in my last
email. It wasn't something I had planned on or thought about before hand.
Then, the next day, my companion and I were talking about what we could do to
help the members do missionary work and I remembered what I wrote. I know that
before my mission I always wanted to share the Gospel but didn't know how to do
that effectively. I tried to set an example for my friends and I would
talk about the church when it came up but I didn't have a plan. In the District
1, the Sister Missionaries were talking to a member and planning out how she was
going to share the Gospel with her friend. They picked a specific person and
came up with a very specific plan for how she would share the Gospel with her.
I remembered all these things and suggested to my companion that we meet with
specific members and hold a missionary style planning session with them. We
would set goals and come up with a plan to accomplish these goals. As a
companionship we're still not sure how exactly we're going to do that though.
What do you think as members? Would that help much?
Thank you so much for all your prayers. I have been amazed at the small
subtle miracles that I see everyday. We live at the top of a massive hill (it's
actually a well developed mountain) and we have to hike to the top multiple
times a day. It is really steep and often we are in a hurry. It is exhausting
but I have never gotten sick from it. The gift of tongues is also clearly
present in my life. There are time in the lesson when I don't understand any of
the words but I somehow know what is being said. When comparing notes with my
companion afterwards there are some things that even he missed that I was able
to get the gist of. One of the less actives who come to English class every
week showed up to church the past two weeks with her daughter. The members all
gathered around after sacrament meeting to welcome and talk with them. It was
amazing. I feel that your faith is part of making these miracles happen. (This paragraph was his response my my earlier email about how much we pray for him. I told him about specific things I had prayed that day. They are some of the things he mentioned in his reply.)
About being busy; we're struggling there. Our teaching pool is really
small and most of them are so busy that they can't meet us often. I haven't
even met our one real progressing investigator yet (although we have a promise
that we can next week!). Our not yet progressing investigators and potentials
haven't lived up to expectations so we have a lot of free time. We are almost
through our less actives list and just last night we called all the former
investigators that we felt had potential. I don't know what we are going to do
next week. Proselyting is just sad and disappointing and I'm not looking
forward to a week of just that. Oh well, the Lord will provide.
Thanks for the support, share the Gospel with everyone,
Elder Stapley
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