Good to hear from yall again! I love getting your emails,
It's
always so good to know that good things are going on at the homefront
and to not miss out on the spiritual experiences going on back in the
4th Ward. This week has been great. Quite a rollercoaster but great. It
started off with a great companionship exchange that I went on with
Elder Willie. He's being trained in my district and is an 18 year old
missionary. He's such a strong missionary. He's been out in the field
for 5 weeks now and he's just stellar. These 18 year old missionaries
are going to be such a blessing to the work. It's awesome seeing the
work hasten. The exchange was really great. We met some wonderful people
in Conway which is right by Myrtle Beach. Our district consists of
Marion and Conway by the way. But it was just such a great day. We met
some wonderful people and had a really spiritual first lesson with a
gentleman named Cecil. He's in his 60s and you can just tell that he's
been being prepared for the gospel all his life. I'm excited to hear how
things continue to go with him. He's been to different churches, has
fallen away from his church for awhile and then got this feeling to go
back. When he went back however he said he felt a big knot in his
stomach. After we taught him about the Restoration we had the
opportunity to testify to him that he will have an overwhelming feeling
of peace and joy by attending the restored church. It was just a really
wonderful lesson.
Did I mention that Elder Nash one of the Seventy came
to our mission? I feel like I forgot to tell yall about that. Let me
know if I didn't.
We had interviews up in Florence
with President Holm which was great. He asked me if I had any questions
and I asked him how I can make my prayers more meaningful. With praying
so often out here in the mission I felt like my prayers were becoming
more rote so I have been focusing my studies on changing that. The
culmination of all my studies was President Holm's advice to imagine the
Savior kneeling beside you praying with you every time you pray. I
usually pray trying to think about me having a conversation with God so
I'd try to imagine God in front of me. This idea of having Christ next
to me has greatly changed the sincerity of my prayers. It's helped me
gain a closer relationship with my Savior in knowing that He is truly
there for me so that I can be able to talk to the Father. He's my great
intercessor. It's with Him that I will approach the Father at the last
day and it's Him that will be pleading on my behalf. It's helped me turn
to Him in all things and try to truly identify, what would Christ want
for me? What would he have me pray for? I love all of the great
experiences and the great learning opportunities that come from serving a
mission. It's such a blessing to learn and grow and change my life
while I'm out here.
One insight that I gained this week in teaching is to be very
clear. Boldness is clarity. Being able to speak a simple truth without
trying to jazz it up is what will give people the greatest opportunity
to have the Spirit testify to them of its truthfulness. Everything is
all about the Spirit and this work is all about purifying every little
thing that you can so you can be the most clear and worthy conduit of
the Spirit. I just want the Spirit to flow through me like a clear sheet
of glass with no imperfections that would dampen the light as it goes
through.
Love ya so much!
-Elder Nair
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