Hope your week has been full of challenges!
("what? What's he talking about?")
Because that means your moving to higher ground. Embrace the mountains! You have a tour guide if you'll heed Him.
200+ pages of
F.S.M. Hindi Language Guide
Beginner to Comprehensive
are ready for review and drafting. Every localized translation of each of the 1, 2, 3, 4, 4, 4, 5, and 5 lessons, full lesson plans, vocabulary, 400+ verbs, beginner guides on all a fresh Missionary could want or need, local tips, learning games, dialects, culture/etiquette, and all topics and concepts covered. All the conversations of my Mission and all God has invested in me, has been filtered out into these pages. How Elder Mokie and I wish we could have had these wealths of resources at the start of our Missions!
We were in tears to look around and find a larger number of Hindi brothers and sisters crowding the chapel. 12 of the Saints we are working with, all came to church! 6 Investigators and 6 Returning Members, and Recently Returned or Baptized Saints faithfully seated there as well! We can testify that this came because we evaluate each other daily on the 5 keys of Success. We find as we strive for Exact Obedience even in the small things, people will call us up and say, "Elders, this Sister hasn't been to church in a decade, but now she's calling you to bring her back and Baptize her two sons. . . plus she's making you lunch on Sunday afternoon!" I truly believe the Lord just waits for us to put our heart on the alter of sacrifice and then, the weight of that 7lb little precious gift sets of a chain reaction that opens up flood gates He had had in reserve all along. The heart on the Alter sets off the release of the treasure vaults! These 5 Keys, WORK!
One of our Returning Members gave a talk on Sacrifice on Sunday. She in tears shared, "I am here .. standing here today because of the Elders the Lord sent. They came and told me I am loved. I am needed. It is because of them that I came back. I will sacrifice. I am so grateful.. that this has happened." We were both in tears... it was one of the most pay-day... worth-it, special moments of these years. Reflecting, it made me grateful for promptings. All the miracles that have happened, that my memory picks up, were just because of a prompting heeded. I testify that is the one work a Missionary or a Child of God has to do, get, hear, head, the Holy Ghost.
There has never been a more satisfying day of my mission. The Companionship, the unity, the joy, the hard work, the results, the investigators, the Spirit, the clarity of the the promptings nonstop, the tears, the signed Book of Mormons, the Referrals, the laughs, the hugs, the photos, the letters, the peace, the motivation, the clarity, the direction, the warmth... the solidified goodness of being Spongey!!
We're getting good ready for Zone Conference. Thankful for this last feast! We're bringing our plates and some take-away containers (; ! It will be my departing testimony. My final breath, final word.
It is the best gift anyone could receive; to be able to speak through the scriptures. To have anyone ask a question, and be able to say, "Let's not come up with our own opinion; lets take this to the scriptures." And to have answers jump all perfectly in divine-line in heart and head! To someone's need! That's the sweetest part. To see our words not work, and then the words of the scriptures do a mighty work in their very souls. Being a scriptorian is the best gift a person can give to the world, perhaps. "Man shall not live by bread alone."
Be a thing to act--no matter what. Everywhere you go where there is a bad song, bring a USB of good. Everywhere I go, bad songs flee. Be a thing to act! Take action!
Lessons, shorter and more powerful than ever. Practicing and getting out before the Spirit does is a fun challenge. There is a power in beginning with question, paint a picture of the best God's got, take it away, introduce Christ with BAR-CPR (Birth, Atonement Resurrection-Church, Prayer, Read) all they need, Matt 26:39, "what you do after the amen is all that matters," "once we go, He'll come knock" with photo of Christ at the door and leave with listening to them and the Spirit.
Love,
5 Unlocked Doors, Forever ~Elder Howard
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