Cindy's Scene: July 2009

July 23, 2009

Yet another week that has flown by. We were able to hold our Zone Training last Monday. It was a ton of fun we were able to keep up the energy and the other elders did as well. All of the missionaries were able to learn some things that they wanted to apply. I love the elders here they are a great bunch.

We also had quite the experience Tuesday night as well. One of our families that we are teaching had a pretty big blow out. We were walking up to the home to the yelling and crying. We walked in, we asked if we should leave but the husband asked us to stay. They were having some serious relationship problems over a multitude of things. One of the reasons being over how quickly they can be baptized, the husband wants to be baptized now, but the wife is dragging her feet. They are both great people. But they had huge yelling fest when we arrived. After the husband sat us down, they continued to yell. But after some time they both sat down and we were able to help them council things out. It is just crazy what our heavenly father lets little kids take care of. Both Elder Hofer and I are only in our 20's and we were counseling on marriage advice for a couple in their 50's. It just does not make sense the things God lets us be a part of. It is just a crazy thing to take a step backward from and analyze. God has to be a part of this work because i know by the worlds standards we are some the worst people to take advice from especially about relationship counseling. But this, luckily, is Gods work and the spirit gave us t he words to give them some serious council and they are both on their way to being baptized again. After the experience I was just overwhelmed with the thoughts of , "Why does God let imperfect instruments be a part of his perfect work?" I have an answer for that question but I am curious to see what some of your answers would be, then I will let you know my thoughts next week.
Well family, I love you very much.
Love,
Elder Andrus

July 16, 2009

Well family, I don’t know if I have very much to write this week but we will see how it goes.

We went on some more exchanges with the newer Elders in our zone. Some are very good and others are little scared but they will be fine. I was impressed with their humility and how much they want to learn. If older missionaries were this humble including myself the mission would be 100 times better. I am so impressed at how prepared some of the missionaries are before they leave for their missions. If there was anything I could pass on to those that are thinking about missions it would be to start learning and practicing now. You can tell who prepared and who did not very quickly and it has a huge impact on how fast they can hit the ground running. We are planning for Zone Training right now and we are pretty excited with what we have planned. It should be very good for our zone. We have a couple that we are working with. Their names are John and Kathy and they are doing great- they have a long list of things to overcome but they have a lot of fire and testimony. It is enough to help overcome what they have to accomplish. They have set a plan to quit smoking and get married and of course baptism. It will be long after I leave this area probably but they are well on their way and they are a great couple.
Love you all.
Love Elder Andrus