Title of the video: Hey Mom sorry I forgot your
birthday!!!!!!!!!!!
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April Fools!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I didnt forget!! :)
Just so you know this was only a five week long transfer. So
transfers are this week and I am being transferred
to Terra Nova and I am going to be a zone leader with Elder Mariquele (he is
from Mozambique)
(Answers):
Yep I am excited! (about the transfer)I am really sad though because
I really like Viana especially the
branch! The members here are so great and the branch has grown so much! My first Sunday here I think we had 67
people at church and this past Sunday we had 119! It has been so much fun
to work here in Viana it has been great! But it will be great to move on as
well! No it is not far away, it is closer then Viana. Yes I will still see the
Thompsons! Fortunately!
Yes he will train me to be a zone leader! We got here in Angola at
the same time, but he is a transfer behind me because he was only in the MTC
for 3 weeks. But we lived together in Lubango and in Cassquele!
(My Health) It has been about
the same... I think I need to start eating a little bit healthier. It is just
really hard to eat good food when you don’t always have energy and all the
fruit can be bad sometimes!
Yes, (other missionaries will be in my apartment) but I am not
completely sure who yet!
We are going to try and watch the priesthood session as a mission on Sunday. Then we are going to
have to wait to watch the rest of the sessions!
She is coming along really well. Her name is Camila! Her nature is to be a little bit more relaxed, so
sometimes that is a little bit hard to deal with, but it is going well. Her
story is really cool though because at first she did not like us at all, and
then she came to church one Sunday and she said she felt something that she had
never felt in any other church! So she asked to sit with us!
Also Adilson got the
priesthood this Sunday which was great, but he is in a sticky situation
with school and he is probably going to have to go to Namibe (a city about 2
hours away from Luabngo) for school and the church is not established there
yet and he will be there for about a year and a half. He tried to get transferred
here to Luanda, but it was denied! We were praying for a miracle experience to
happen so he could stay in Luanda where the church was and I had the thought to
call a lady in Cassquele who works for the government and she pretty much can
do anything (when Pres Thompson was waiting for his visa she went in and pretty
much approved it for him) anyways so I called her and talked with her and it
sounded like she could help so I gave her Adilsons number and they talked about
it, but it just seems like Adilson is not trying very hard to stay here in
Luanda. I am pretty sure that this was an answer to our prayers to call this
lady from cassquele, but I guess you can lead a horse to water, but you cant
make it drink! (Frustrating principle sometimes!) So I think he might have to
go to Namibe for a while.
We found one guy who’s
name is Rodrigo! He is awesome! He is a very strong in his church! But he is
so willing to read the Book of Mormon and pray about it!! We were reading the introduction
with him and the he said that he really liked the part that said to ask God! He
said he loved that because it did not say that we should ask a pastor or ask a religious
person, but that we should ask God! He has not come to church yet, but
hopefully this Sunday he will come!
(Our normal
schedule): Wake up in the morning at 6:30 and get ready for the day and
eat! Personal Study from 8-9, companion study from 9-10, then 10-11 language
study. After that we try and make lunch and eat and then we go out for the day
and teach knock doors and that kind of stuff. Then we come home at about 8 at
night and have dinner and then plan and get ready for the night. Relax a little
bit and then go to bed at 10;30, However on Wednesday we have district
meeting which is about an hour and a half and then on Thursday we have weekly
planning which is about 2-3 hours. So that is a normal day!
Counsel? (Recently I have
been thinking about) some of the important things that we need to do and things
we should not do when somebody makes a mistake! And I think some of the most
important things are to LOVE THEM and to
NOT JUDGE THEM. I remember when I was in Lubango we had a recent convert
who started to break the law of chastity. We talked about it with him and then
we talked with the branch president to figure things out. But during that whole
process he felt like the church was kind of pushing him away. We did our best
to love him and try and help him, but slowly he started to fall away. He ended
up having to work on Sunday so he could not come to church and things like
that! I do not think that we as missionaries or the ward gave him as much love
as he needed to feel like he could repent and be forgiven and because of that
as far as I no he is a less active member! The other part about judging is that
(sometimes we judge) a lot of people without really trying to, (our weakness!)
We know we should judge and try not to), but it was almost like second nature.
At one point in my mission I was in a situation where I felt very judged by the
people around me! I was doing the best I could, but I just felt like I was not
good enough and I felt like others were judging me! As I went through that I
thought wow being judged stinks!!!! It
does not feel good and it does not help me in any way!! It just kind of
makes me want to be worse! So from there I decided that I did not want to judge
others because I really don’t know their circumstances and what they are going
through and if I judge them it is only going to make it worse! This principle I
felt was confirmed when I talked with My district leader and President
Thompson. I told them some of the struggles I was going through and I did not
feel one sense of judgmental feeling from them! They did not tear me down in
anyway or think bad of me in any way! They
just supported me told me my strengths and helped me to continue on!! I will be
indebted to both those people for the love and help and they gave me!! to help
me move on and continue to do better!
Thanks mom for everything!!! I Love you so much!!!!!!
Elder Tilley
Love you guys!!
Logging off!
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