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Hey Everyone! Holy smokes we had a fantastic week! We had a real fun snow storm blow through which made the work somewhat interesting at times. It's all good though, it's finally warming up!
Here is a quick run through of this week:
Monday was kind of a brick. ( Brick is a missionary slang term for saying "that sucks", or "dang it") We were going to have a district activity, but the incoming snow storm made us cancel our plans. It was all good, we made the most of the day!
Tuesday was tragic because we had a cancel a training visit with the Hilliard elders. To make up for the lost time and good times we decided to edit a video I filmed in December. The elder who was supposed to edit the video and post it went home, so I just decided to take matters into my own hands. It is done now and will be going up on our Facebook page. Go like and follow it, it is Columbus Ohio Christians. After that we did some contacting and set up a couple member lessons which is a fat blessing.
Wednesday we had our district council in the morning which went really good! I definitely learned a lot about prayer and the spirit chastised me about my current level of prayer. After that we just went about our normal stuff which is always contacting and having lessons with the members. Other than that, it was a fairly average day.
Thursday we had to cancel another training visit because of the weather. It sucked, but we had just another average day for us. Just nonstop contacting to try and schedule lessons with people.
Friday we had a really fun and busy training visit with the assistants. I was with Elder Muhlstein for the day and we put the work in. We tried making a video with them, but we ran out of time. We were just too busy calling people and teaching lessons! At the end of the day we sat down and just talked with the assistants for a while. It was a really good time to spend with those goons!
Saturday was absolutely incredible! We had a good morning with a couple lessons with members. After lunch we commenced pretty much our second training visit with President. We invited him to come with us for our lesson with Belinda and Derrick. More on their lesson will be in the miracle of the week.
Sunday was a super awesome day overall. We had a super awesome day at church with both wards. We got to talk to a lot of the members which is always a good thing. After church we had a lesson with a member and did some contacting to end off the night.
Funny moment of the week:
Oh man, this isn't so funny as it is awesome. We got to have Hank Smith as our devotional speaker on Sunday night. He talked with us about how to recognize and feel the spirit and then how to follow the spirit. It was definitely very insightful and I got a lot out of it.
Miracle of the week:
Holy cow! Our lesson with Belinda and Derrick went so good! President is such a powerful teacher, it felt like we were with the 19 year old Elder Horgesheimer in Germany. We spent a lot of time answering questions and explaining the Book of Mormon. But more than anything we got to know them and showed them deep love. It was super funny because they didn't want us to leave. It was miraculous to see the incredible connection we were able to make with them.
*HERE'S THE IMPORTANT STUFF*
Here's the questions that were asked to me about prayer that caused me deep introspection. I want to pose those same questions to all of you:
1. Why are you praying? Are you doing it because you have to, or because it's just something that we should do? Or are you praying because you want to communicate with your Father in Heaven?
2. Who are you talking to in your prayers? Are you praying to be heard of those who are around you or to your companion? Are you praying to the food you are blessing or the bed you are going to sleep on? Or are you praying to be heard of your loving Father in Heaven?
3. Are you giving God the love and respect He deserves? Do you treat prayer with reverence as our way to talk with God?
4. When you pray, are you willing to carry out whatever command that God gives you? Do you have the faith and courage to act upon the revelation God gives you?
5. Do you prepare to approach the throne of God? Do you just rush into prayer and start praying? Or do you stop and give yourself time to focus and prepare to approach His throne and talk with Him.
The last thing we were invited to do was to when we are done praying to not just get up and move on, but rather to wait. Wait as long as it takes to receive an answer to your importuning. Don't rush the revelations of the Lord or forget about what you are asking Him for. Always think about those things that you are asking God for.
This training changed the way I pray and it was definitely for the better. I want to invite you all to ask yourself these questions and apply the things that the spirit teaches you. I love you all and I hope that this helps!
Love,
Elder Bohn
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