Hi Everyone!! :)
Another
week has come and gone. It is kinda cool being only able to be online
1x/wk. It definitely helps you notice the weeks coming and going.
A couple cool experiences from the week:
1.
We are moving today! Out of the lake house and into the basement! I'm
fairly excited for the move. Elder Harper is so funny... he has only
lived in the lake house and has been excited for the last month or more
to move into this new place. There are pros and cons to every place, but
it is really hard to go wrong with such a private great and spacious
building. I wonder how he will like it... Elder Blackham on the other
hand has lived in over 10 locations as a missionary and therefore
understands how BLESSED we were at this lake house. I am excited for a
change of scenery. It was awesome, but too much for me. The couch that
has been downstairs for the last month has been my Achilles heal.
Dramatically has reduced my productivity... So this should be good.
2.
I read "The Forth Missionary" a thesis like paper that was given about
10 years ago as a talk to missionaries by a mission president I believe.
It describes 4 missionaries - the disobedient one that is sent home,
the disobedient one who makes it the full mission ("how can I not get
caught being disobedient?" mentality), the obedient one who withholds
his heart and mind, and the forth missionary who gives his heart and
might and mind and strength to the Lord. It was an awesome talk. I think
it can be applied to lots of things. One of the best insights in this
talk was that if we only give our time and talents to the Lord, we are
giving him the things that he blessed us with - he already has those.
However, if we give our hearts and will and mind to the Lord, we are
giving Him the only things in the world he does not have. Also, if we
are holding back and not giving everything, we cannot be changed by the
Lord. If we are one of the first 3 types of missionaries, we will return
essentially the same person. Therefore we must become the 4th
missionary if we want our mission to be worth the sacrifice of being
away from friends/family/school/future/
3. As we are
in a group of three, we are allowed to visit single sisters from church
(at least I think that is the case... I'll have to make sure later
today). We visited this AWESOME lady Thursday night. Wow. She is
extremely articulate and a great story teller. She shared about her
conversion story and family and lots of things. It was so nice to hear
the power of the Gospel in her life and what it has done. Single Sisters
(widows, divorced, etc) are probably the least tended of the flock in
the Gospel. I suppose that is why in the Epistle of James (1:27) he
describes, "Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world." I hope we can continue to visit them!
4.
Austin (9yr old in part member family) finally made it to scouting!
*exhale. That took like 3-4 weeks... but I'm glad he made it and is
really excited to be a scout! His family is still doing well, although
it is still challenging to get a time to meet!
5.
Also, it was really cool on Friday at trainer's meeting for all the 2nd
transfer trainers and new missionaries. All 4 of us from the district
in the MTC that came to Fort Collins Colorado were there! Elder Pope,
Elder Sell, Elder Empey, and myself are all companions with a missionary
who has been out just past 2 months. We took an awesome picture after.
It was nice to see all of them; they are all solid missionaries. I'm
glad to have confidence that all of us will make it through our full 2
years together. (And I also ate lunch that day at Raising Canes Chicken
Fingers - it's super delicious).
Have an awesome week everyone! If you would like to write me, the mission office address is still the place to go!
Elder Jeff Campbell
5285 McWhinney Blvd Ste #100
Loveland, CO 80538
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