This week was good,
it went by super-fast, and I was able to learn a lot. We also had interviews
with our mission president and were the last ones, so we didn't even have the
interview until 11:45pm
Zone
conference this week was great. All the missionaries got together, and we
learned a lot about what our mission president wants us to do and change. He
wants a lot to change about the mission but all good things he is a really good
president and has some really good ideas. One of my favorite parts of the zone
conference is talking to all the missionaries to see the
experiences and what they have been succeeding with and what
difficulties they have been having to try and learn what I might be able to do
better. Also just hearing some of the crazy stories too.
Temple
dedication
The Brasilia Brazil
temple was dedicated this week so this Sunday we had an opportunity to watch
the dedication and hear words of opposites and why temples are
so important for us today. We all got cool little white handkerchiefs too.
Loving others
This week we had a
lot of contention in our work, the families were teaching and some conflicts
between missionaries in our zone (my companion is a zone leader and I've been
trying to help him resolve some of these conflicts). The biggest problem
I've noticed in all of the arguments, anger, and contention is that people
just aren't having love or joy, so that's what I have been studying this week.
With my studies I have found lots but the main things that popped out to
me are, "It is not always easy to love people for what they
are." -Ulisses Soares. This reminded me that no one ever said loving
people will be easy but that doesn't change the fact that we need to love
others. Elder Neil L. Andersen once said, "We genuinely love and care
for all our neighbors, whether or not they believe as we do." From this I
related it to what Ulisses Soares said and realized that even if it's hard
and even if people won't always think we love them it is much more important
that we try to love everyone and demonstrate this love for them, even if it is
not accepted.
Didn't have a lot of
time this week but hope everyone has a fantastic week.
-Elder Amata
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