Hello there!
Hope you all are doing well! Everything is
going well here. Last week was transfers and things changed a little
here in Hurricane, WV. My companion left and the Sunday
before I got a call from our Mission President asking if I would train
again:) Actually a funny story goes along with that. So we were in a
lesson and then went straight to another lesson and we had actually
missed a call from him and listened to the voicemail when we got to the
second lesson before we went inside. I actually found out before we
called him back that he was calling to ask me if I would train because
he had called us earlier in the week and couldn't remember if he had ask
me to train yet. So I called him back and told him that he had not
asked me yet, but I said that I would gladly accept and he reminded me
of the importance of a missionaries first companion and how important
the beginning of a missionaries mission is, because it is you that helps
them make or break the good habits of a missionary:) How grateful am I
that not only my mission president but the Lord trust me with that
responsibility. More grateful that I get to learn from her because
new missionaries always have so many creative ideas of how to find
people to share the gospel with!
This past
week we had a relief society activity and 3 of our non member friends
came, we were so excited to see them there. I also found out at that
dinner that my last companion was a quarter back on a woman's football
team for 2 years, how cool is that??
My new
companion, both to me and to the mission, is Sister Tippetts, from the
Salt Lake City area. She is very sweet and very excited about the work.
We have had to do a lot of tracting since she has been here because all
of our lesson have fell through but she is a good sport about it and
hopefully we will have a couple of lessons tonight, with some people who
are excited to hear about the gospel.
The
scripture that was the subject is my ponderizing scripture for the week.
This morning I was studying in preach my gospel about obedience under
the commandment section of Chapter 3, and realized how important not
only our obedience to God's commandments but our attitude about it too.
If we are just going to keep the commandments because there is no other
options and we have a bad attitude about it, that make us a "slothful and not a wise servant"
but if we are "anxiously engaged" we will truly receive our reward
which is living with Heavenly Father one day... having Eternal Life.
I
hope you all are doing well and loving and learning the gospel. I am so
excited for the Easter season and having even more of a reason to go
around and share a message about Jesus Christ. I know that he does live
today and only through him will we be able to "earn that reward" of
eternal life. I am so grateful for him and for the opportunity I had in
being born into this gospel. Have a great week y'all!
Love Sister Mauck
