Nineteen

Joy in a cup! Mcdo Mcflurry!


Hey!,

These are some of the things I have learned on my mission.
Working hard and obedience is not everything on a mission. Really.
From the start of my mission I have just been working hard, trying to be
exactly obedient, always busy. That is important...but I wasn't
as happy as I wanted to be so I wanted to know what was missing.
Really it's charity. Having love towards everyone and not just doing
what I am doing just because I know the Church is true. That really
hit me. That knowledge should lead you to act another way, on a higher
plane. I felt like I had been running around and trying my best but
having no anchor. So from now I will try to do all those things as before
but not just because I should...but because I love the people I am serving and
want them to be happy. So that is what I learned today. Also slowing
down And smelling the roses is important too.

The scripture that stays in my head is the charity scripture about if you do things without
charity it availeth you nothing. So I need to repent and change ;)

So we have 3-4 Amis that are so close to baptism it is super
cool. Something that I have tried doing this week is making daily
contact with all our Amis and really it has been helping a lot.
Xia who is our closest to baptism felt the Spirit during
Sacrament.  He said it was just like a warm
feeling in his heart.  Super cool.

Something I learned this week is one of my Zone leaders, Elder Perry,
is engaged. He has only been home for like 2 months so that is super
crazy! It basically blew mind.

I love you all and have a merry Christmas season!

Elder Duffy