Missionary Email: Telling Someone Not of Our Faith about God

Monday, March 2, 2009 7:01 PM

I have 5 minutes left so I'm going to write a second email today since there was none really to read except gigi's. You guys can write me on dear elder if you want. I want Gen and stuart and mom and whoever can to write me what they would use to tell someone not of Christian faith about God, because that's our biggest hang ups in our TA appointments. The atonement and to believe in god for the Chinese people. I guess because that's what's going to be what I face. So i wanted to see different peoples approach on the matter. So send me those on dear elder so I can study them. I can only read emails for seconds but if you send a Dear Elder I have it in my hand.

I thought of a funny story. My teacher in a neat freak. He is 100 percent follow the rules. I had a hard time with him at first but now I love him to death. His name is brother H. You can bleep that out online. So anyways he thinks we need to shine our shoes every day...even the sisters. I've never done it before or sister Ackerson, so we asked if he'd show us, since he used one shined shoe and an unshined shoe for an example lesson. So anyways first he told us how he had this companion, who is also a teacher here and how he shined his shoes every day for him because he was having trouble loving him. And then he proceeded to shine sister ackerson and I's shoes for us. The next day we asked him if he shined our shoes because he was having trouble loving the jiemeimen (sisters). He said Keneng. Which means maybe or possibly. Haha.

Yeah and he must have trouble loving me because lately he's picked up calling me "LAMAN de meimei" which means laman's little sister. We have tight quarters in the class and an elder kept touching me. I was kind of whining about it so he yelled "LAMAN DE MEIMEI!!!" at me. And it was recieved well by me and the whole class, so he uses it all the time now..."LAMAN DE MEI MEI, you aren't speaking Chinese! or literally, bu keyi shuo yingwen. which means you can't speak english. So yeah. I've been called laman de meimei about a million times since. Especially by elder wu who leaves tomorrow. But i made a comic for our district and he gets the know-it-all elder title. Haha, I'll send you a copy.

Latah.

Tips for LDS Sister Missionaries from a Returning Sister

One of my correspondents returned a couple of weeks ago from her mission from the Korea Daejeon Mission. I asked her if she had any insights to share with other sister missionaries still serving on their missions that she thought they should know.

Here is a list of her tips:

• My advice to sister missionaries is that love makes everything possible.
  

• The three things that will begin a cycle that leads to everything else necessary is obedience, obtaining the spirit, and loving.

• It is good to learn the language but more important is to know the doctrine.

• The most important skill is to be able to bear pure testimony according to the needs of the people you serve.

• You will be able to do this as you take the time and effort to pray for love, both a collective and individual love.

• The amount of energy you put in your prayers will determine your commitment to God.

• As you bear testimony your desire will increase.

• The most important thing is to seek God's will and follow the guidence he will give you through the spirit.

• Avoid the trap of believing that you are unworthy of that guidence.

• Our Father loves us more than we believe is possible.

• As we obtain that love for the people that we serve then we will know that God is eager to pour out blessing to us.

• Work hard and forget about yourself.

• Avoid imbalance, focusing to much on any one aspect will limit the amount the s
• Spirit can influence you.

• Enjoy the simple life that the schedule facilitates, keep the schedule!

• Take time to enjoy and be grateful, time is short and none of it will last forever, remember you are there to make memories not only for your investigators, but also your companion, and yourself...and by proxy your family.

This is the greatest work....your life will be blessed forever because you chose to serve a mission.

Sister B. Daejon Korea Mission September 2007-March 2008

Sister missionaries please share with us your own list of tips that you feel other sister missionaries should know. Thanks for sharing!