YOUR POTENTIAL, YOUR PRIVILEGE

Hello Mother and family!!!

 

I am very excited for General Conference!!! Glad that Dad is getting use out of the Big Van! There is a family in the ward where I serve that have a Korean "big van" but it is no match to our big van. He calls it a truck as well :)

 

This past week went by quickly as usual. We were very busy in the work of the Lord. Right now we are working on finding people to teach. This week we found three people. Two of them called off of English fliers and the other one we met on the street. The first one is a kid who is getting back from the 2 year required military service next week. He had a break and so he came to English class as well as to an activity that we had on Saturday at the church. He is looking for a part time job (weekends) so we will see how far he goes in the religious aspect of things.

The second guy is an old guy who is quite peculiar. He married a wife from China and is now just living by himself and wants to learn English. He wants to marry a foreign wife. He doesn't quite understand the difference between churches (he invited us to come to church with him...so we will teach him the Great Apostasy tomorrow) and so we will help him to read the Book of Mormon and hopefully come to a knowledge of the truth.

The third guy we met on the street and invited him to the activity that we had on Saturday. He came with us and really seemed to enjoy it. After the activity we had a lesson with a member and it ended up that they worked at the same place! He seemed to enjoy it, so hopefully he will have potential as well.

 

The Family was really busy...and the man in the world was also busy, but he promised to come to church next week. There is also an important back story with him. I met the missionary that was here before me and the missionary told me that the first time that they met the missionary told him kind of jokingly to pray for a hard life so that he could believe in God. In the closing prayer, he did, jokingly, and then his dad died, he tore a few ligaments in his knee, got in a car crash, and now has insomnia. He is not very happy. But, he definitely believes in God now. We just have to help him realize that he needs to follow Jesus Christ all the way to commit to give up alcohol and be baptized. He is a great guy, and we are really hopeful for him to come to Christ!

 

This past week we watched the Mormon message "your potential, your privilege" in English class to help with hearing and get the gospel in. In this Mormon message a man gets on a boat, because he wants to save money, he doesn't participate in any of the activities, or get food, etc., he sees all the places that he wants to, but in the end he learns that all of the activities on the boat and the food were all part of the ticket price.

The lesson that I learned is that we must understand our identity in order to fulfill our potential. If we do not understand our identity then we do not understand the privileges we have, nor the potential that we have. Thus, it is very important to understand who we really are in respect to God and His Plan. Right now, I am a missionary, later a father, etc., as we understand who we are and what privileges our identity entails we will be able to fulfill our potential. Like Christ. He understand His identity clearly and was able to fulfill His potential as the Savior of all mankind!

 

I love you all so much and challenge you to find your identity, and then live up to it!

Have a wonderful week!!! I love you all!