Wise

This week felt like an eternity because so much happened. I look back on some of the events from earlier this week and It honestly feels like it was 3 weeks ago. I am so grateful for everything that happened. 

So on Tuesday we had Mission Leadership Council (MLC). It is where we receive direction from President Hymas for what direction the mission needs to go. He is definitely a man inspired of the Lord. He gave a training on wise time management, and how we as missionaries need to be aware of everything we are doing to make sure we are doing things in the most efficient and effective way. We are on the Lord's errand while we are on our missions so it is not our time we are wasting, but his time, if we choose to not do missionary work. It brought to mind a quote from the talk "Jesus The Perfect Leader" by Spencer W. Kimball. "Wise time management is really the wise management of ourselves." 

We have two people we are working with right now, Gale, and Anna, that are ready to be baptized but they are both stuck in the waiting phase. Gale is trying to get married to the man she is living with so they can live the law of chastity and Anna wants to be baptized asap but she wants her oldest daughter to be there, who is still in russia and is trying to finish some legal paperwork so she can come to america. It is frustrating with both cases because they both have such a strong desire to follow Jesus Christ and be baptized but for some reason or another there are circumstances that are preventing them. We will keep doing all that we can to help them work towards baptism, but we are praying for a miracle to help them get baptized sooner. 

A cool experience that happened this week was meeting a missionary I knew when I lived in oregon. I went on splits with him right after I got my mission call to sacramento and he was so excited because he said he lived in sacramento. Well last sunday at church I saw this guy in the hallway and he looked so familiar. so I went up and started talking to him, and lo and behold it was the same guy who I went on splits with in oregon. It was such a cool experience because my whole mission I have been hoping I would somehow run into him when he returned from his mission but I knew the odds were small. It just a super cool experience. I am grateful for the little blessing in our lives from the Lord. He sure does know us and love us.

Love,

 

 

Elder Hallmark

 

 

Here is the picture with that missionary I met while I lived in Oregon!