Another week passed. Next
week we'll be going to the Yankees game- that's going to be sweet! Look
for us on TV because the whole mission is allowed to go and we are
probably going to be sitting all together, so that certainly would be of
interest for the cameras.
Anyways, transfers came, and...
Still here in the Bronx! With Elder Martinez! I'm going to get to
finish training him. Elder Richards, one of my roommates went up to
Danbury, CT, so Elder Jensen got a new companion strait from the MTC.
I'm super old compared to the other Elders in the district, so that's
going to be interesting. But this cycle is going to be great- we've got
some good things going on with the people that we're working on. We
went into a lesson last Saturday intending to possibly drop somebody,
but we came out with a baptismal date and three firm appointments a
week, so it's interesting to see how the Lord sometimes guides us like
that! We also had a family of less actives that hadn't come to the
church in years come! They want to go to the temple and the boy who is
twelve wants to get baptized, so we're going to get them going to church
stably before we work with him. The referrals from the Bishop are
progressing well too, so this cycle is going to be sweet! I know that
the Lord has been blessing us with this success as we've really been
trying to be obedient and be diligent. Our will is really the only
thing that we have that the Lord cannot take away, so when we give that
to Him, He blesses us greatly in exchange.
This cycle I'm really going to
work on further giving myself to the Lord. I know that as we drop our
pride, pretty much all of our problems go away. We can always be more
humble, and I believe that until we're perfect, there's always more that
we're hanging on that we can give up to the Lord. I also know that the
people around us are children of God with great potential. We can
always learn from those around us, and so I'm working on being able to
see, focus on and then learn from the good of those around me. I know
that as we do that, we demonstrate a desire to learn and we also are
given the opportunity to lift up those around us. Even just in my
apartment, between the four of us, we've got almost eighty years of life
experience from which we can all benefit. If we can put our pride
aside, our worries about the way others perceive us, and we just seek to
glorify God in all things, we are sanctified, purified and are able to
come closer to Christ. God is so great and I'm humbled knowing that He
loves me enough to bless me with others to help me. I'm looking forward
to a great cycle, filled with lots of learning, and I'll be sure to
share little tidbits of the great things I'm learning with you guys!
I hope you have a great week coming up! Thanks for everything!
-Elder Griffiths
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