So this was a really intrusting week. We went to lightning
ridge the furthest part of the mission and our area to visit Avalon and her
family. She grand kids are not baptized mainly because her daughter is less
active and not interested but she is ok with the kids learning. So we drove the
3 hours to spend friday and saturday teaching the kids and to have
our monthly sacrament meeting for the members there. We got there and the kids
were at school so avalons husband (Who is an opal miner) took us to some of the
strip mines to look around. We found some opals ill send pictures next week
because I forgot to take the pictures. When they got home we taught
them. They have a slight mental problem because of problems at all of
their births but 2 of the 3 were receptive. The hard part is they live far
so we will have to call a lot to follow up and Avalon will teach them
a bit between our monthly visits. Usually when we go to lightning ridge we stay
at avalons house but because the grandchildren were staying there she got us a
motel room for that night. So I think we are the first missionarys to stay in a
motel room. The next day we had a sacrament meeting. It is too far for the
members there to go to Narrabri every week for church so every month we take
the sacrament to them. It was a great meeting. We met in a bowling club but
even with the small numbers the spirit was strong. I had the opportunity to
sing in Japanese. That was nerve racking. After all this we drove home and
almost hit a few kangaroos going 110 kilometres.
Something that I
have really learned this week though was we must do all we can do or we will
not receive the help we desire. We have a bad situation right now. Our
investigator is getting worse with the seizures she needs to go to a specialist
today. A member wants to take her the two hours to get to one but there are a
lot of problems there. She husband is the only one who can drive (Mission rules
we and the senior couple can not take her even president cant override the
rule) he has parkinson's disease. He can drive but its risky. Danny(our
investigator with a baptismal date) has been getting worse and her husband is a
little crazy if anything happens we are afraid he will sue. But the member does
not care about all of that. She just says heavenly father will take care of it
all. This is true to a point. If we do all we can do then heavenly father will
take care of us. We must use wisdom in all things and "council with the
lord" sometimes we have to step back and sometimes we must step into the
dark. But in all cases we HAVE to have the spirit. By the spirit we will know
what to do. The missionary problem. In the WHB it says that we are not allowed
to hold children and all our leaders have told us no be exactly obedient.
What if there is a baby on the ground at church crying. What do you do? I have
talked to a lot of missionarys about this and have got answers from both sides.
What I think is to listen to that still small voice. I guess what it all comes
down to is to constantly search out what is right, council with the lord in
prayer, and listen to the spirit "it is by the spirit you will know right
from wrong and have the assurance to stay on the pathway of righteousness"
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