Oct 12
This week has been amazing. Because of the week delay for translation, we watched conference this weekend. And holy cow what an incredible weekend it was. Mom, you talked about Elder Bednar's comment, how the 88,000 missionaries are here to assist the members in missionary work. (fun fact, since they lowered the mission age two years ago, there has been a 30,000 missionary increase, from 58,000 to 88,000. Holy. Cow.) You said how that seems to put a lot more responsibility on the members, which it absolutely does. But as missionaries, it made us realize even more just how important it is that we involve members in this work by inviting them to lessons and teaching them how to share the gospel. Sometimes we think that somehow we can do this work alone, but it simply isn't true. Members and missionaries MUST work together in order for this work to go anywhere. And it's definitely going! So exciting! Another thing that really stood out was the emphasis on propthets and their divine calling from Heavenly Father. Over and over they talked about the importance of having a living prophet and heeding His counsel, which is untainted and directly from God. They said several times that this will be our protection in the latter-days, and if we ignore it we will fall. Pretty intense, but so incredible! We literally have the opportunity to listen to the mouth piece of the Lord, giving us direct and specific counsel how to overcome the temptations of Satan. As Richard G. Scott said, "As we do these things, the harder Satan will try to stop us and the less power he will have to do so." Now that is a cool promise. Holy cow, Conference is so amazing. I am so grateful for modern prophets and apostles who lead and guide this church today.
This week we had a meeting for all the new missionaries and their trainers. It is a type of follow up meeting and additional training. It was such a good meeting! We talked a lot about street contacting and how to make it more meaningful and personal for each person we talked to. As we were preparing to leave, our wise AP promised us that since we had practiced those things so much the Lord would bless us with people in our path that day who needed what we had just learned. And that's where the miracles began! We got on the bus heading to the subway station. In that 10 minute ride, we met three people who all wanted a Book of Mormon and asked if they could learn more about it. We then got on the subway, where we were talking to a woman, and the two woman beside us asked if they could see a Book of Mormon, and began reading for a good 15 minutes as we went to our stop. We transferred to another train, and met a 70 year old woman who had just lost her husband and was very lonely but had great faith in Christ. We were out of Book of Mormons, and only had one pamphlet left which just happened to be the Plan of Salvation. We taught her about the Plan, and she started to cry. She wrote down her address and phone number, and told us we had to meet the rest of her family and share this message. And it just turns out a member from another ward got on the train right at that moment, and was able to teach and testify about what we had just said. They both got off, and two more woman came over and asked if we could teach them more about what we had been sharing. This all happened in the space of about an hour. When we got back home, we were speechless. We couldn't believe the goodness of God and the incredible blessings he had poured upon us. And my testimony has grown dramatically that when the Lord gives us knowledge, and we do our best to put that knowledge into practice, He will bless us. He will always bless us and we will feel His love for us and all HIs wonderful children around us. It was a miracle. Holy cow I love this work. I LOVE THIS WORK!! It is in God's hands, his perfectly capable hands if we just get out of the way.
I love being a missionary. This is the greatest work in the world. I love Korea and the wonderful people living here. I love the members, the missionaries, and my adorable companion. But most of all, I love my Heavenly Father and Savior Jesus Christ. Through them we truly can find the greatest happiness. I love all of you, thank you for everything and you are always in my prayers. Have a wonderful week!
-Sister Shanelle Seegmiller :)
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