I will be keeping this email short this week because of
time. Things are going well here in the Great Massachusetts Boston Mission. Every
Tuesday now we gather together as a mission for a web-ex meeting with President
Packard where we talk about what is going on in the mission right now and also
to read with him a knot chapter from the Book of Mormon on the Atonement.
In
the zone we are getting texts each morning to help remind us of the goal we
have set as a mission and to pray for these individuals.
The fear we all have is that we are starting to lose some of the momentum we had in the beginning.
We NEED to keep the same effort we had in the beginning and that is only
possible with the help of the Lord consecrating our efforts.
This last
week we met with Alfonso and had a good lesson on the Restoration with him. He
came and told us how he doesn't have faith and is struggling to find it. He has
studied the bible a ton to try and find the truth for himself and has come to
the conclusion that many of the churches out here are not correct. He has a lot
of really great questions though, so we will be helping him with those things. We had Stake Conference down in Groton, CT and he came to the Saturday night
Priesthood Session and enjoyed it a lot.
This last week we were not able to get
a hold of Claudia, but we talked to her member friends and they said she has
been VERY sick and has been in bed for several days. We invited them to explain
to her what a blessing for the sick is and to ask her if she would like one from
us.
On Tuesday we met with our Relief Society President for dinner and were
able to share a message with her non-member husband about one of his fears she
shared with us. He was intrigued at the very end to know more about my story,
but since we didn't have time we had to keep him on the edge of his seat a
little longer...LOL. They are an awesome family.
Back to Stake Conference; it was
pretty amazing! It was focused on Hastening the work of Salvation and I must
say I am very impressed with the Stake Presidency here in RI. They are very
consecrated to the work and as part of their mission they talk to every person
in the stake who has a baptismal date so they can congratulate them. The Conference was filled with great stories about our purpose as members and
missionaries and how the Leaders and members are using us. It is truly
miraculous! One of my favorite parts was when all the young men passed the sacrament. It was so neat and moving to see all these faithful sons and
daughters of God coming to Stake Conference and partaking of the sacrament together.
This next week we have A-LOT of follow ups to do because it seems our "tries"
this last week were not as successful as we would have liked. It has been a
great week though still filled with miracles and tender mercies from the Lord.
Today I would simply like to leave you all with some questions about prayer
that someone special to me had learned about. As I actually took time to gather what I knew and believed about
prayer I felt the Spirit confirm the truth of it to me again and help me to
take inventory on how well my prayers have been lately, for which I am grateful
for. The Questions are.....
What is prayer to you?
Why are we commanded to pray?
And what are we to pray for?
What is prayer to you?
Why are we commanded to pray?
And what are we to pray for?
One more I would like to add....
In what attitude are we suppose to pray?
Simple but profound questions.
I would like to invite all of you to ask yourselves these questions and to seek
the answers in the scriptures and talks, then to ponder and take
inventory on what it is that you can do to improve your conversations with the all
knowing, all powerful Being of the Universe who only wants the best for all of us.
Elder Salerno
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