This week was a blessing and a heartbreaker as well. Being a missionary is always a rollercoaster of emotions.
This week we met an extremely loving and nice investagator named Debbie. She calls us her "babies" and gives us groceries. She is so kind hearted and even showed us all her weaves which was an experience to say the least. We are trying to get back in and teach her but she said she already knows God but loves having us over so we will see. Hopefully the spirit will touch her heart and we will get to teach her.
I really got to see and feel some Texas rain this past week. It was crazy. We were outside for maybe 5 minutes and it looked like I had jumped into a swimming pool. My pants were sopping wet and it was fun. It made me miss Oregon even more. I love the rain and having a rainy day was the best!
I hope all of y'all were able to watch conference!!!! I love conference and am so thankful that we have a prophet to help lead us. My favorite talk was Elder Eyring's talk on the spirit. The spirit really is our best tool that we have. I'm so thankful for the spirit and the guidance we have from it. The announcements and temple announcements were so awesome too! This really is a time of revelation and growth for all of us in the gospel!
Missions are so fun and so hard. It's like there's times where I can't wait to go home and times where I never want to leave.
This week was hard because we had 6 new investigators drop us and left us with only one family left to teach. I've never felt so heart broken than when I saw people feel the spirit and then have time away from it and lose it so they decided not to invite us back. That's hard. Also there's times where I want to smack my comp but that is natural. No matter how hard and sad I get, Heavenly Father takes care of me.
We didn't have anyone invite us over for conference or even for Easter dinner. I don't know why but that made me super sad. The good news is that Heavenly Father lead us to a person who offered us steaks for our dinner on Easter. Didn't invite us back, but gave us groceries to have a great dinner ourselves. Heavenly Father takes care of me.
The perspective you take influences how you see things. If I have a positive happy look when we knock, time goes fast and we meet nice people. If I have a negative look, then I have a negative experience. Try and force yourself to have a positive look on life. It will bless you.
This week my scripture for y'all is John 14:18 "I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you." There is so much power and strength in that. Heavenly Father won't leave us comfortless and He will come to us when we need Him. I'm so thankful for that and for this gospel.
I hope everyone had the opportunity to have an amazing Easter and to remember our Savior, because of Him we can have all things. I'm so thankful and happy to know I have someone I can always count on and save me. I truly love my Savior, Jesus Christ.
Have a great week and God Bless.
Elder Jarrett Pinster
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| LOVE THE TEXAS RAIN! |
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| The nice friendly Easter bunny/chicken we found ... |
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| ELDER HILL AND I WITH OUR MATCHING GLASSES |
