It's been another crazy week! But this past week went by really fast.
Tuesday,
During my personal study I was studying a lot about the parable of the
workers in the Lord's vineyard, so I would read the parable a couple
times, then I would ponder it, then I would read what it says about the
parable in Jesus the Christ. While I was reading some things really
stuck out to me, first the Lord is always looking for servants and
people to work in his vineyard, he doesn't care how long you've been
there, he just cares that you served him at the end of the day. Second,
If we serve the Lord because we want the blessings, he will give you
those blessings and nothing more, Whereas if we serve the Lord with
faith that he will provide for you, he will bless us with every blessing
that we need. Finally, I feel really impressed that we need to serve
the Lord because we love him, Not just to be obedient, or for the
blessings, We need to serve the Lord because we love him. I feel that as
Elder Holland said, there will come a time when we will come face to
face with Christ, and he will ask us "Did you Love me?" and I personally
want to be able to say "Yea Lord, Thou knowest that I love thee."
We had our district meeting
later that day and I had to role play with one of the other Elders, and
after the role play, one of our zone leader's (Elder Albright) said "You
know everyone has there greatest strengths and weaknesses and I really
feel that Elder Bangerter's greatest strength is the love that he
exhibits towards everyone. You can see it in his eyes, and hear it in
his voice."
Wednesday,
I was on splits in Temescal Canyon, I got to meet some more amazing
people it was awesome. I spent the day with Elder Bushman, and we both
being greenies fresh out of the MTC we gave 3 blessings on Wednesday.
Thursday,
We got to go to the Temple, and a few weeks ago they released a new
endowment video, so we got to see that. It was incredible, there is
added emotion that definitely helps me personally learn a lot more. I
would encourage all of you guys to go see it as it is amazing.
Lessons with
our investigators are going great, incredible in fact, but we did have
to push the dates for the baptisms for all of our investigators back a
little bit for logistical reasons and because two of them were sick, and
they have to be at church 3 times before they can be baptized. We do
have 2 more people on date for baptism though so we had to sacrifice a
little time but we should have 5 baptisms the first two weeks in
September.
I hope all is well with everyone,
Elder Bangerter
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