Welcome to Fayetteville & Cleanliness is Next to Godliness!
Update from Elder Langford, April 29, 2013
Hi everyone,
Before
you read Jeff's blog, I wanted to put an excerpt from Jeff's weekly
letter to me today. He just got transferred this week, and he is
describing his new apartment. AWESOME!!
"mom, you’ll be so proud of me. I walked into a
little bit of a mess… the kitchen was pretty bad and the desk was completely
unorganized… first thing I did when I came was cleaned… I told him (new companion), that we
wouldn’t be able to feel the spirit until we cleaned that place up! I spent the
next couple lunch’s cleaning the kitchen and what not, so now it looks pretty
good! But yeah it’s a nice little apartment!"
Hi everyone,
Man… I don’t even know where to start…. This has been one of
the longer weeks in the field! I got shipped out from Newbern to
Fayetteville a day earlier because the Elder’s companion in Newbern became an assistant, so we stayed in
his area for the day. Turns out that’s where Pepsi started. Pretty neat!
So Fayetteville, it’s great! The Lord’s blessed us a lot down
here. We’ve really tried to stay focused on the work, and trying to see
everyone as they can become. We were able to get out there this week, and found
9 new investigators! Woot! A lot of people were ready to hear the message, and
we’re looking forward to further teaching and working with these people that
we’ve found! In the beginning of this week, I’ve never felt more successful as
a missionary. It’s a time where I think I can honestly say that I was trying my
very best. 2 of the main attributes I would credit that to are: trying my best
to think of others, and setting goals.
Something crazy that happened, President Bernhisel gave us a
call, and told us that he’s planning on coming to the district meeting and out
with us a little bit afterwards! Plus the
zone leaders of the area are planning on exchanging with us, so they’re coming as
well… Should be a great meeting!
My New companion's name is Elder Pettitt, and
he’s a goofball! He DJ’d a lot, played a lot of video games, and knows a lot
about speakers. I’ve been able to notice that his testimony always brings
peace. It’s so interesting… whenever he bears it to a member or an
investigator, it truly invites the Holy Ghost, and it’s very easy to feel.
We’ve seen a lot of recent success together! Before the transfer he said that
in the last 12 weeks he’d taught only one lesson to someone, and now in this last
week we’ve taught 11… so the work is there and ready to be done now!
Again we’ve had, a very successful week, and I felt very
satisfied with my efforts throughout the week… Then, idk…, something kind of
switched off… the second half of the
week was a little bit more rocky… so I’m trying to figure out what I’ve stopped
doing -_- So a prayer or two would always be welcomed! The main thing is just
focus. If we can learn to focus 100% on what we can do to be most effective in
the moment we’re in, and not spend our time in fear or worry if we aren’t
successful. If we can't learn to be more focused on the moment, and focused on
others, we’ll miss so much of the inspiration we need to live our lives. The
reason we set goals is to direct that focus, and give us the confidence and
faith we need to get everything done that we need to. Setting goals allows us
to maintain the work of our plans, so when we start to become lax in following
through with our goals, and forget about them, we feel like nothing we’re doing
is successful. If you don’t have a conscious goal in your head to accomplish
something, you will never really see a difference in your progression… Setting
Goals is huge! It was huge for me at the beginning, and I feel that perhaps,
that could be the problem I’m in now… I need to recommit to the goals I’ve set,
and become more focused on accomplishing them… It’s the way that we can focus
more on being ourselves in the work. If you can’t act confidently as yourself,
then something needs to change. And so, that’s the focus now. It’s eatin at me
right now because I really like to use this time to focus more on the need of
others in this blog and not my own, so obviously if I’m so focused on my own
self right now, something’s gotta change… hopefully by next week I’ll get back
on track and will be able to make a little more sense…
I love you all so much and you’re in my
prayers!!! Don’t ever lose focus on what’s important! Love, Elder Langford
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