Madre
It's so good to hear from you! Even to see the little bit of Spanish you
know. It's sounding great. I had never heard "te echo de menos"
before but I thought it out and I think it means I miss you, right? Anyways I always love your emails.
I feel for the Jensen family. I can't imagine what kind of terror that could
have brought to their family. I will be
praying for them.
I am happy to hear about how the lesson went on Isaiah! I have really loved pondering his teachings found
in 2 Nephi. There is a lot there about the gathering of Israel and the
Restoration of the Gospel. Isaiah knows
missionary work.
This week was a great one! Next week is pretty packed. We have stuff going on every day. But we'll get to that later.
Transfers went great. We
still have our same district leaders staying with us so I won't lose the
relationships I have made with them. I
am anxious and excited to counsel together and see what the Lord would have us
do for the next 6 weeks. As a zone
leader anything we want to do, and do well, we work through the district
leaders. I love it.
We now have 7 out of the 11 companionships training new
missionaries. We are the biggest
training zone in the mission. We even
had a new area open up in Santa Clarita. All is well. We have lost focus on “finding” but it won't
take much to get back on track with that.
We had a surprise mission conference (English, Spanish, Korean
and ASL) this week. We recieved some
instruction from Elder Uchtdorf's words to the new mission presidents (which
they never release to the public unless instructed) as well as we got the
chance to watch the new movie “Meet the Mormons”. I don't know how it goes down
in Utah but you need to make it a date night or something. It was really great. I learned a lot and felt so proud to be a
member of this church.
ALSO big, big news on the iPad's. President got a call from headquarters and
they said we are getting mobile devices this month! I AM SO EXCITED. BUT even bigger news is they want to use our mission
for a pilot program for the new Iphone 6+. We aren't 100% sure which device we will be
getting but either way it was great to finally get some new news about it
all.
So for next week here is what it's looking like:
Monday: Half a preparation day, take the Car to the dealer (it
got recalled...), FHE
Tuesday: Going to the temple to make up for my birthday :) :) :)
Wednesday: MLC
Thursday: Weekly and ZTM Planning
Friday: ZTM and 2 District leader meetings, plus splits with the
Assistants
Sat: #ldsconf
Sun:#ldsconf and zone baptism
We are going to have a pretty crazy week to say the least.
Mom, I really think something is missing from my work. I have really been pondering and praying about
it a lot. I just don't think I am where
the Lord needs me in terms of commitment and sanctification…which is hard to
grasp because I am doing well. I feel
like a successful missionary I just need help getting to the next level. It's not a matter of running faster than I
have strength but maybe just trying to get the most out of this next year. What more can I sacrifice? What more does the
Lord need from me? What lack I yet? I found that one thing I can do to be a little
better tool in the Lord’s hands is to sacrifice my native language. I haven't spoken any English this past week. I have loved every minute of it. I have fallen madly in love with Spanish. I love speaking it and thinking it and
dreaming it. It is the language of
heaven. Germans have the language of
engineering, French-food, Italian-love, but Spanish is the language of
heaven.
I am also excited to see what kind of guidance I can get from my
temple visit tomorrow. Nothing
makes me as happy as the temple does.
Long story short I feel a little blocked. I feel like I progressed so fast (maybe too
fast) and now I am letting all those fruits slip by. I need to reevaluate and see what the Lord
needs me to do better. I love this work Mom, I truly love it.
I hope you are well. I
hope you are progressing in some capacity. You sound well. I am so proud of you and what you are doing
back home. I am glad we're doing this
together. Te amo
Te echo de menos
Verdad y fiel
Elder Bagley
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