September 28, 2015
Dear Family and Friends,
Well this week has been a fantastic
week. I am so very grateful to be a missionary. It is easily the best thing I
have done for my life. My perspective and my love for life has increased so
much. I love my life and I love being a missionary.
This week we had to present for zone
meeting on faith and expecting miracles, including baptism. It was a really
really good meeting. I loved preparing for it and learned a ton this week.
While we were preparing, we thought of Nephi and his family and the differences
between Nephi vs. Laman And Lemuel. Laman and Lemuel always murmured. We talked
about the many reasons why we murmur and why we say we can’t baptize. The zone
came up with several ideas…a person’s agency, working in a rich area, the
church is far away. Many many things. As we were talking, we realized that many
of the things we murmur or complain about are things we can’t really change,
and that we should focus on things that we can and should change. And the thing
that you usually can change is yourself. And I realized that although there are
many reasons why we can’t accomplish a goal, the truth is we need to be
focusing on how we can accomplish the goal and not how we can’t accomplish a
goal. Focus on the changeable circumstances, not the things that we can’t
change. I realized the importance with faith coupled with diligence and positivity.
I feel Nephi finds so much Joy as he gets the plates, but Laman and Lemuel
don’t really find that much Joy because they are focusing on the negative. If
we focus on the negative in the middle of a miracle, we may miss the miracle. I
feel there is so much good and power behind positivity.
I am so grateful to be a part of this
church and also I am so grateful for all that I am learning. I am grateful to
understand the importance of what baptism is. I feel mission is more joyful
than even getting the plates because we are working to help people to come to
know the gospel and come to have eternal life. I am grateful to be a part of
this great work.
We have a sweet new investigator and he
seems sincere in his desire to know if the church is true. I love people who
are sincere because the Lord answers those who are sincere and I feel I have
faith that he will come to know this church is true because he is so sincere in
his desire to know if it is true or not. He is a very good guy. He has not been
attending our church for a while and attending many other churches but his
family is kind of against the church. Which I don’t really blame them because
the rumors are so bad here in Lusaka. So I hope the Lord will be able to touch
his heart along with his family’s hearts.
My companion Sister Natsala is great,
she is from Uganda. Yes I knew her before I came on mission. We met in Uganda
Mbale when I was there. So that is pretty sweet. She is hardworking and I feel
she has a lot of strengths that I haven’t really been all that good in applying
my whole mission, like asking for referrals. She is powerful. And I am grateful
to be working with her.
Well I love being a missionary. I am
part of a great work, and I know it. And I am grateful for my testimony and I
hope that I go back changed, and I hope I come back different and I hope I stay
that way. It truly is great to be serving in the Great Zambia Lusaka
Mission.
Sister Falco