Hi Family and friends!
How is everyone doing? I hope this week has been better than last week! ? For me, there was a lot of learning, growing, and it was very, very good!
Last Monday, I am pretty sure that I already shared about our (not)valentines day party at Longhorn and skip-bo at the church. That was really fun and was some nice district bonding time!
Tuesday and Wednesday we did a bunch of Street Contacting and trying to find people in Americus that we can teach! A bunch of people we teach are in Cordele or Vienna 30 mins away, but they don’t have cars! We ended up finding two new people this week, so that is really good and exciting!
Thursday we had interviews with President and Sister Needs, and so we headed up to Columbus bright and early to make it to those, and so that was really a fun time! ? President and Sister Needs are seriously so nice, and they care for and love each and every missionary in the Georgia Atlanta Mission! We also had District Council and Weekly Planning, so it ended up being a day full of planning!
We stayed in Columbus over night because on Friday we had part two of new missionary training! (Hence the title of my email) That was all the way in Peachtree city, which is about an hour fifteen from Columbus (two and a half hours from Americus). It was such a fantastic training, and because the APs were busy that day, we had President Needs teach us the whole time, and well again, it was fantastic! 🙂 We drove back to Americus that same day, and then had a bunch of contacts to catch up on and two lessons that went very well!
Saturday was super busy of catching up on some contacts and having so many lessons! A bunch of them ended up falling through, but we did still have a couple good ones!!
And yesterday, Sunday, it was a good day full of study and learning. We totally forgot that this week and not next week is an Original Post (video post) Instead of just a quick post (just a picture). So we ended up filming yesterday and hope that we can get the video edited and looking nice sooner than later!!
And that brings us to Today, where I got to talk to my family, which is always fantastic!!! We’ll see what the rest of the day brings us. 🙂
For a spiritual thought today, it seems like there has been a lot this week about patience. Everything happens in the Lord’s timing and it takes faith to believe that everything will turn out all good in the end. Patience has a whole section under the Christlike attributes in Preach My Gospel. It explains, “Patience is the capacity to endure delay, trouble, opposition, or suffering without becoming angry, frustrated, or anxious. It is the ability to do God’s will and accept His timing.” With that definition in mind, you can pretty much apply patience to literally everything! As you stay faithful, God has promised that he will bless you, so it is going to happen! Sometimes (a lot of the time) your patience doesn’t happen how/when you expect it to, but as you develop this christlike attribute, you will be able to see that it is so worth it! Heavenly Father will always answer our prayers. He will always give us the blessings he’s promised. He loves us, and all he asks us to do is love him back and show our faith by keeping his commandments! If we have Love (aka Charity), everything else falls into place!
I hope y’all have a fantastic week this week! I will talk to y’all next week, and until then, God Loves YOU!
-Elder Claussen
