Hi everyone!
What a crazy week! Full of meetings, finding, and some teaching! Can’t believe that it’s already been another week, but here we are again ??.
Last Monday, we went to Bucees and that was quite an experience! Everything I was hoping and expecting lol. The whole place is massive and there were sooo many people! We went finding in the evening and had a good lesson.
Tuesday, we had ZLC, which is where the leadership in the Zone comes together and talks about missionary works. Immediately after that, we went to get food at this Mexican place and then went straight to district council. That was also good. For the rest of the day that we had left, we went finding and knocked a few neighborhoods.
Wednesday, we got to do some service at the food pantry where we took food out to people’s cars, and that reminded me of my old job at Walmart, so that was fun haha. I think we get to go there every week too! The rest of the day was finding until at the end of the day we helped teach English class again. This time there were 3 people who came and they were super awesome!
Thursday, we had a couple of lessons that went super good! And then we had weekly planning and planned out the week. That takes such a long time, and so that is all we really had time for.
Friday was the special one! We had to wake up at 6:00 so we could get ready and leave on time to go to the temple!! ? That was such an awesome experience and I am so grateful for the opportunity to go to the temple!! It really is such a special place; the house of the Lord!! Right after the Temple, we had Zone Conference where where we got to hear from our Mission president and have some really good trainings, so that was fantastic!! Traffic on the way home was crazy, but #tendermercies, the new youth album dropped so we had new songs to listen to in the way home ?.
Saturday, we had like 6 lessons happen! All of them were super good and it was nice to be able to teach a lot and see that our finding efforts are working :). So it was a super busy day, but it was a really good day!
Sunday, church was super awesome and we had good reports and good finding! We had a member dinner and had noodles, so that was really good too!!
That leads us into a spiritual thought kind of from General Conference from the temple point of view. And also some things that I’ve been thinking about from some things I’ve talked about with my fam. In the temple we make covenants and become a Covenant people. President Nelson this last General Conference really emphasized the power that comes with these covenants, and it is how we can find true rest. As we keep the covenants we make with exactness, the Lord is bound to hold up his side of the Covenant.
On the other hand, as we don’t live up to our covenants, we have no promise from the Lord, and we become more susceptible to sin. The Adversary wants to do everything in his power to make us feel trapped and like we can’t go on; but ultimately, that is simply not true! There is always hope!
That got me thinking to just how much power we really do recieve when we make and keep Covenants with the Lord! My invitation for this week is to think about the Covenants you have made or will make and think about what power comes from them :). As the prophet has said, living the Gospel of Jesus Christ is the only way that we will find true rest! I know that the Covenants we make are important, and they have great power that comes when we keep them. I say these things in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.
Love y’all have a great week! -Elder Claussen
