So this week was GREAT. Why was it great? Because it was GENERAL CONFERENCE! And there´s no weekend better than that for a missionary. Why? Because we get to tell everyone about the opportunity that they have to listen to the voice of a prophet. Even if we gave out more than 150 invitations and we only had 5 investigators come to the conference, it was a beautiful weekend.
Before conference this week was a bit rough. Hermana De Leon and I were working really hard, but ultimately it was a week of a good amount of closed doors and hung up phones. But that´s not what matters. What matters is that despite all that, we saw some success, and that success is so much sweeter than the bitter of rejection. Our investigators that came really enjoyed the conference.
This week we went to Chivilcoy again for a zone meeting. Our zone leaders gave us a lot of advice on how we can gauge our success as missionaries, which helped me a lot. As missionaries, sometimes we are rejected and people don´t want to talk to us. Sometimes the people with whom we visit decide that they don´t want to visit with us anymore. Sometimes we invite people to church and when we pass by their house Sunday morning, they don´t answer the door. But that´s because they have their free agency, to decide for themselves. If they don´t want our help, we can´t help them, and we can´t judge ourselves off of that. All we have to do is assure that we´re giving it our best.
Along that same theme, there was a talk this weekend in General Conference by David M. McConkie, who reminded us that as teachers (or as missionaries) we are called to be representatives of Christ and act as He would act- nothing more, nothing less. If that´s what we´re doing, we don´t have to doubt that we´re doing the right thing and giving it our all.
Anyways, other than all that, Spring is in full swing here now! It´s a beautiful, sunny day, but give it another few days and I´m afraid I might be dying of heat stroke. We´ll see how the summer goes.
I believe that´s all for this week!
Sincerely,
Hermana Walton
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