We had a very inspiring and uplifting meeting and President Bekker spoke to us as well. He gave us four steps to follow: 1. Obtain the spirit. Go in prayer and ask for guidance and His spirit to be with us as we go to the scriptures to study and seek answers. 2. Repent and change for the better each day, be better than the day before. 3. Achieve humility by thinking more about others than ourselves, think outwardly. 4. Love people and work diligently.
We left the meeting feeling very gung-ho to get going with missionary work. We returned home, I made two batches of different kinds of cookie dough to use in the cookie drop on Thursday. If we don't get bad weather...another hurricane warning and this time it looks worse, it should hit Thursday, either way we get wind and rain. We were going to the beach to try out our new beach umbrella (come! we have a beach umbrella) but after getting all ready and going outside it started to rain and looked grey. So we came back in, unpacked our gear and I watched a old Hallmark movie and crocheted while Elder Sanft read.
At night we went back to BYUH to attend our first Zone conference for Senior Missionaries. I talked a bit with Sister Bekker and asked if she wasn't worn out, She said she was they had been here all weekend in meeting and would do the other side of the Island tomorrow, but she loved it all. She is very sweet.
This is our mission motto that we start each FHE with: (we finally have it memorized)
We are grateful to be in the Hawaii Honolulu Mission, the ALOHA mission,
The Atonement of Jesus Christ is our message.
Love of God and others is our motivation.
Obedience to the commandments and mission rules is our strength
By sharing the gospel with others, we can give them the HA,
the Breath of Life, even Eternal Life. ALOHA!
We had our conference and Sister Bekker was the first speaker. She is truly inspired, she easily is a great woman leader in our church. She related all the blessings that come to missionaries, promises just found in the the Doctrine and Covenants. There were so many related to missionary work. I especially liked her reference to Lorenzo Snow the 5th Prophet of the Lord in our day, concerning the promise given to us for our children. Soothes my soul. We had talked about our souls in the morning session.
President spoke next and said he had heard some people say the Senior's assignment was more like a job than a mission. So he spoke about that for a minute. He said it wasn't about the job but doing your work, no matter what the assignment, you'd always have opportunities to share the gospel with others. He said we should rely on Father in Heaven, even on a job, to have the spirit with us.
President Bekker (that's not Elder Sanft, looks like him though)
President Bekker then went on to say he felt very inspired to talk to us about the book Preach My Gospel. That the senior missionaries were not using it as often as the other missionaries. He showed us part of a video taken at the last Mission President seminar at the MTC about how we should all use the book and why. He encourage us to read at least 3 pages daily and incorporate it into our daily scripture readying. We haven't done that but will now. He told us about the book, how it came about and how there should never be a supplemental book used with it other than scriptures.
It was a very good meeting and I learned so much from today's two meetings. We were also warned and told what to do this week to prepare for the hurricane. A little bit scary.
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