Learning to Teach Through the Spirit

This week has been good.  We only have 1 investigator at the moment and we have not been able to teach her recently but she told us not to give up on her so we are going to keep her in our prayers.  We have been really trying to work with the many less active members of our ward and we have not been able to find many home yet but I know that when we do we will be able to serve more people.  I am so excited to get to know more people and see who we can teach.  I was asked to give a 15 minute talk on the Book of Mormon on Sunday, and it was so amazing.  I could tell that the Spirit was guiding me in my preparation and when I gave my talk.  It felt so different than any other talk I have ever given before, I am not sure how to describe it but it was wonderful.  People afterwards told me I did a good job and whenever they did thoughts came to my mind that that was the Spirit.  I love learning so much as a missionary.  I just want to close by saying that as we always strive to remember Christ and to listen to his Spirit, we will have all the comfort and guidance that we need.


 resident Clark knows about his challenges, we both have challenges and some are different.  I think this is a wonderful opportunity for me to learn, to strive to be obedient, and to just love and pray for my companion while I try to be the best example I can be.  I am struggling with stopping and talking to people again.  The scripture that comes to my mind to the one about strengthening yourself and then helping others, so that will be my focused and I just need to better listen to the Spirit and pray more.  I am begging to feel its one of those things where I will see this later as a blessing to be able to grow so much and learn every day. 

 Thank you for your good advice.  I am seeing I rely too much on my companion and it needs to me that pushes myself to get things done.  We are supposed to run 20 minutes in the morning and we have enough room that I can try a slow jog for 20 minutes and as for music its in the car, but we are not in it very often.  You are very right that I need to pick my battles and just strive to be obedient.  The hardest part has just been seeing how much easier it is to be disobedient and sleep in.  In the end I think this will teach me a lot.  When he puts his mind too it he is an amazing missionary, so I just need to love and push him in the right direction on things.  I also just need to do better at some things like companionship study, I have a hard time focusing on that recently.  I just need to make sure I am doing things correctly before I start worrying too much like my companion.

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