Missionary Moses: Work

This week was awesome! Were having so many great things happen here! We have more people with baptismal dates then this area has had in years. Its so amazing to be able to see what happens when we follow the spirit. This is the lords work and when we follow the promptings of the spirit he can lead us to do great miracles.

One great miracle that we've seen this week has been just the spirit in our lessons. We've really been receiving so many promptings its so cool. We are working harder then i ever have before. We've decided were really going to push past what we have been doing before. Not that we weren't working hard, but there was just small little things that we could do better. It's helping us out so much but its exhausting! Which is a good thing i love it.

Life is an eternal progression and so is a mission. I've really been trying to better myself everyday so that i can be the best missionary i can be. Whom the lord calls he qualifies! While this may be true i think its more then just that. I like to think of it better that the lord qualifies us when we put everything we have into it. Its just like how the savior cant save us in our sin but from our sin its the same principle. The savior cant save us in our weakness but from our weakness. In order for us to qualify us we need to do our best ourselves just like how we need to repent. It requires action on our part before the lord will bless us. Sorry that was pretty deep i don't even know if it made sense but something i've been thinking about haha. We all need to work hard in everything in our life. It doesn't matter what it is, if you're going to do something do it with everything you got and the lord will bless you! There's some motivation for your week hahaha.

I have some sad stories from this week! The worst part about missionary work is when you do everything in your power to help someone and you know they feel the spirit but they choose to harden their hearts. Its so sad and frustrating haha. We've been teaching this less active lady pretty much the whole time I've been here. She's super old and claims she has health problems but she really doesn't. We felt really impressed to help her come to church. So in our lesson we bore our testimonies about church and promised her some powerful things. She just told me that i didn't understand at all what it was like to be sick and all this other stuff. It was super sad to see it's definitely the saddest part of being a missionary so far.

The highlight of my week was by far my birthday! That video was so awesome i loved it so much! Thank you to everyone who was in it. It made me so happy to see all of you guys I really appreciate it! I love you all so much and I'm so grateful that i have such amazing people supporting me! Hope you all have a great week! Love you guys!

Much love,

Elder Taeoalii

A message from Kelly:

He didn't send any pictures this week, but Jerry has texted me a few: