Hah!! I love Ronnie's face in the skiing
picture!
I can't wait for T to get his call. I heard a
story a few days ago about two brothers who served in the same mission at the
same time and were companions at one point. The problem is it is so extremely
unlikely that it almost certainly won't happen, no matter how much I pray every
night that it does. But now when it doesn't I am going to be super bummed, but
only for about six seconds after I've spent an hour being excited about where
the Lord has called him. As for you Jordan, my advice is to start small. First
ensure that you are reading your scriptures and praying sincerely every day.
Then add a bit of study from Preach My Gospel every day, then build from there.
Testimony comes from keeping the commandments to the level our faith allows,
then seeing the blessings. This strengthens us enough to do a little more. Thus
step by step weak things become strong unto us. What is challenging becomes a
treasured skill. I know that you can become an incredible missionary, it just takes
faith like a mustard seed to push us to action. From there we can develop the
trust in the Lord to allow him to mold and shape us into the people he wants us
to be.
That has been a focus recently for me. I don't
know if I have ever mentioned it but I have a really hard time street
contacting. That is 90% of our contacting in YSA, so that has been a struggle
for me. I can knock on any door and not be afraid of anything, but when I am
pacing a sidewalk block trying to talk to people I just freeze up and walk
right past them. At first I was really confused as to why I couldn't do this. I
prayed and the feeling I got was that I wasn't the kind of person who could
street contact. Well I thought that was just great, then I realized what that
really meant. The Lord expects me to become someone who can street contact
effectively. That changed my perspective a lot. I have been trying to trust the
Lord more completely. Instead of being afraid of saying something stupid, I
need to trust the Lord to guide and protect me. That has also outlined to me
the importance of proper preparation. We can do whatever the Lord requires of
us if we do what is necessary to have the spirit. For everyone, and especially
missionaries, this strength comes from studies. Another goal of mine is to be a
more effective study-er. So many goals, so little time.
There is a Wendy's in short walking distance
from the apartment, but I have only gone once. When I deserve it I will go
there, but not until then.
Other than that the sisters had a baptism on
Saturday. There were more people at that than at church the next day. We had
three investigators at the baptism, but none made it to church the next day,
but another investigator that we hadn't expected ran into a member at the bus
station and decided to come on the spur of the moment. A really weird week.
Anyway that is about all for today. Sorry I
can't send pictures.
Love you all!!
Elder Hardy
p.s. our roomates are in a home ward and are
the zone leaders. Elder Castrejon is my district leader.
p.p.s. There are two Universities of over
30,000 students, one decent sized college, and about 4 smaller schools. Ottawa
is a very young city.
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