How to be a Missionary

Sister Williams & Sister Olsen

Once upon a time me and Sister Olsen were out tracting, and although I talked

every time someone opened the door, I had yet to be the one to knock. So the next door was my turn, and needless to say I was excited… a little too excited, because as I knocked, it was so stinking loud that poor family probably thought the cops were outside trying to knock their door down haha lucky for me no one was home or they ran away out of fear, either way the moral of the story is. Use the doorbell.

The funny thing about that subject line is the fact that I still have no idea how to be a missionary....but If there's one thing I want to share this week it's that God is not a respecter of persons, it does not matter what you've done, where you live or how long you've been a member, His love knows no boundaries, there is nothing that says you have to fit into a certain mold to be loved, and nothing qualifies one more than the other.

As we've been teaching some of our investigators this week that's come up a lot, many feel that they are loved less because of things that they have done. That's why having the pure love of Christ is essential to missionary work, not only on an actual mission but as we are "missionary's" in our daily life's. Many times truly loving someone comes from looking at them in not only terms of who they are, but in who they can become, trying to see them as the Lord does. With that love comes the desire to serve, which is actually a covenant we make when we are baptized, we promise that we will render service to our fellow man.

When it comes to teaching the gospel I've come to realize that no one really cares how much you know, until they know how much you care. As we really strive to follow Christ we will have the overwhelming desire to serve, because no one else is a better example of service. In the same topic be willing to accept service....now that's one I've had a really time with, because the ward out here is so good to us missionaries, and is always trying to give and do stuff for us. For the first week I HATED it...but I've begun to realize that denying other people the opportunity is really denying that person blessings, which sounds extreme but it's true. We must be able to give service, accept service and in times of need be humble enough to ask for

service.

We are all on the same hard trip back to our father, we are here to love and help each other get back home like Elder Uchtdorf said “in the end it's the merciful that will receive mercy."

Sister Williams 

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