With this transfer coming to a close, it has been very hectic week. There are 21 new missionaries coming in. 12 of them are sisters. There are only 8 going home, and one of them is a sister. We are having to open up 6 new areas! That means furnishing apartments, new phones, cars, and supplies... We have been working extra hard to get as much done as we can early, so we don't have to stay up till 2:30 each night this week. Plus transfers is a day early... One less day to work. Working with President on transfers is incredible. The amount of prayer and revelation that goes into that is incredible. Mission Presidents are SO in-tune with the spirit! Such a blessing to be able to witness the Spirit work through him. We also got an email from SLC saying that there will now be Sister Trainer Leaders... Aka Sister AP's... So that was an interesting thing to keep in mind as we worked on transfers.
Wednesday we went to the Temple with the missionaries who are going home and President and Sister Riggs. The DC Temple is AWESOME! It was a beautiful day too! After we went to Olive Garden. YUM!
Thursday was Return and Report. It is a meeting for the missionaries who have been in the mission for 4 weeks. Their trainers come as well. I gave a presentation about the importance of Companionship Study. I used the scripture found in Doctrine and Covenants that talks about being "one" when going into a spiritual battle. It went really well! The new missionaries are very excited about the work and have been working very hard!
In my personal study the other morning I was reading in Jacob ch. 5:70 "And it came to pass that the Lord of the vineyard sent his aservant; and the servant went and did as the Lord had commanded him, and brought otherbservants; and they were cfew."
There is a cross reference for the word "servant" that takes us to Doctrine and Covenants that tells us that the "servant" is Joseph Smith, and the "other servants" are young men (men and women!). Aka... MISSIONARIES! Pretty cool huh? I reread the chapter and it made so much more sense!
Anyways... LOVE YA!
Elder Michael Litchfield
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