January 29, 2018 ~ Transfer 13 Week 3

Hi all!

I'm going to keep the written part of this pretty short because I'm a bit short on time.

This week has been pretty exciting. We went to a tiny town (Villafranca) to go try to find people there earlier this week. 

We also went to Oviedo this past Friday (the same area where I started my mission at) for a missionary zone conference and that was cool to be there again in the same area where I started and to get to see a couple of old friends there. So it was a pretty exciting week! We are still working on finding new people to teach.

A quick couple quotes from this week:

From a talk from October 1976 - Proper Self Management:

"Most people never fulfill their human promise and potential because they remain perpetually helpless children overwhelmed by a sense of inferiority. The feeling of being okay does not imply that the person has risen above all his faults and emotional problems. It merely implies that he refuses to be paralyzed by them. He is determined to accept himself as he is but also to assume more and more control of his life.”

Another from Elder Holland:

“You only get one chance to serve a mission; it is your responsibility, your duty, to use it to the fullest; to give every last ounce of energy until you collapse in exhaustion at the end of it.

All the hardships, all the tears, all the hard work will be looked back upon as the best thing you’ve ever done, not because you enjoyed it, not because you baptized everyone, but because you gave everything you had, even when you didn’t think you could, and especially when you didn’t want to.

You only get one chance to serve a mission; it is your responsibility, your duty, to use it to the fullest

Live your mission to your fullest, work harder than you’ve ever worked before. Let people know that this is the most important thing in the world to you…

If you do not run until you have nothing left to give, and then keep going anyway; cry and pray and work and sweat and plead until you are so drained that all you can do is turn to the Lord; if you don’t do this, then these people will not come to this joy because of you – their failure to come to Christ will be partially upon your head."

Romans 1:16

16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

I hope you can get something out of that because I don't have time to fully explain it haha. Have a great week!

Elder Openshaw