Hello!
Just to reinforce my new e-mail policy I thought I would type it up:
ADJUSTED MISSIONARY E-MAIL POLICY: We received the following policy change from the Missionary Department: "Missionaries
are to write to their families each week and are also authorized to
communicate by email with friends, priesthood leaders, and new converts.
Mission presidents should allow sufficient time on preparation day for
missionaries to write emails and letters. While in the mission field,
missionaries should receivce authorization from the mission president
before entering into communication, including via email, with converts
and others of the opposite gender within the mission boundaries"
Send me an e-mail. You know you want to. jared.sapaden@myldsmail.net
This
week has been a great one, I felt happy today to sign in to my e-mail
and discover a vast number of e-mails from friends. Keep them coming.
There
really is no mercy here in Runcorn, it's a great feeling to be busy,
but I'm pretty worn out my companion wasn't here with me from Tuesday -
Saturday, I like to joke with him when he gets back always asking him
"so, how was your holiday?" but it's nice to be away I suppose, I stay
in Runcorn with the other missionary because he doesn't have his license
yet. But, hey I'm not complaining I have the Car with me all the time
and all we do here is teach and speak to scousers. I wouldn't trade it
for a holiday to the Isle of Man.
We
have a Baptism this Saturday, it is quite exciting, I love Baptising it
is a good feeling knowing that as missionaries we are here to harvest. I
don't fully agree with the "I'm a missionary sowing seeds" mentality, I
don't know about you, but I'm here to Harvest.
This
week we gave trainings to about 60- 70 missionaries, it was quite fun,
we got a lot of explosions involved, mentos and coke, baloons and even a
pre- easter egg hunt. I loved this week, I was on exchange with a
former companion, Elder Lamb and we had a lot of fun. We had an
investigator pass a Baptismal interview.
We
went on two proper exchanges and even had time to work with two
companionships of Sister missionaries aswell as tearing it up in
Runcorn.
Here's the miracle off the week:
On
Thursday I just felt that I needed to go help out the Sister
Missionaries in a previous area that I had served in called Chester.
However, I wasn't with my companion, I was on exchange, so we were on
exchanges and we went to help other missionaries out, it was quite a
weird situation, the spirit had told me I needed to be here in Chester
but I didn't know why. Intially we visited a former investigator that I
taught when I was in Chester, she was pretty good. The sister
missionaries had asked us to give one of their other investigators a
Priesthood Blessing, so we said we could help. This other investigator
had pro -actively called the ward in the area about him receiving a Book
of Mormon 6 months prior and had referred himself to the missionaries
because he lost contact with the missionaries 6 months ago. We came by,
the miracle was that the missionary I was with was the one that had
given this particular investigator the Book of Mormon 6 months ago. We
were in the right place, at the right time, I even brought the right
person with me although we hadn't planned it. The same missionary that
had given their investigator the Book of Mormon 6 months ago gave him a
priesthood blessing this week, it was quite symbolic. Definately pay
attention to those spiritual promptings it was a faith building
experience for everyone.
With Love,
Elder Sapaden
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