So I was talking to my companion about patience just last night. We have an investigator who is about 80 years old. He has been taught and dropped a number of times by previous missionaries. He has had a really tough time receiving an answer to his prayers because he is so stubborn.
In the MTC we had a very effective object lesson on patience. The teacher sat down in a chair, and asked a missionary to stand at the other end of the room and represent God. He then told us that he didn't know anything, and our job was to get him to God without touching him. We told him to begin by standing up. "Stand up?" We demonstrated what we meant. "No, I couldn't do that, I would fall over!" We told him to begin by putting his hands on his chair and pushing off. "Hands? Chair? Push?" We had to explain simply what we meant and each step in the process of standing up. It was frustrating because standing up and walking is something we all do so naturally, and here we were trying to explain it to someone with a limited vocabullary! Eventually we were able to help the man lean forward, stand up, and slowly shuffle over to God. We are teaching people something that is completely new to them. Most of the gospel vocabulary is unknown! To them, standing up must seem an impossible process. Is it any wonder that investigators take a bit of time to progress?
Anyways, that's my little spiritual blurb for the week.
Cheerio,
Elder Winters
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