Elder Ngendabanka and I have a great time everyday no
matter what though and always find something to laugh about!
On Thursday, we all fasted as a Zone leading up to the
Mission Tour (Zone Meeting not actually a tour) we were having on Saturday and so that we can all gain the
guidance and strength we will need to achieve our new mission goals and
standards of excellence. It's pretty
hard to fast as a missionary haha since we are working so hard everyday and
walking in the heat, but I know the blessings that come from fasting and
praying and I am seeing them already!
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| Can you find Grant in the back row? |
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| Grant front and center behind Elder Cook. |
So that leads me to the mission tour! Elder Carl B. Cook
(The Southeast Africa Area President) and his wife were touring our mission
with Pres/Sis Erickson this past week and they came to Blantyre to instruct us.
The Lilongwe missionaries all came down and we have a combined Zone Conference.
It was very powerful. The work is going forward here in Malawi. The Lord is
truly 'making bare his arm' in our mission and in our lives. Elder Cook's
address was based largly on Elder Bednar's address 'Converted unto the
Lord'. We discussed the relationship
between a testimony and conversion. Many
people can know and feel something is true, but what is important is what they
do with their knowledge and with those feelings.
Conversion is denying the natural man and becoming a saint through the
atonement of Jesus Christ. Our nature changes. And it is all through repentance
and the Atonement. I am so grateful for a loving Savior that atoned for my sins
and allows me to repent and become better. That is also what drives me here on
mission because I know what happens to people when they gain that faith and
they repent and embrace the atonement and become converted.
I love missionary meetings; they always help me to
receive revelation and realize ways I can improve!
I love you all!
Elder Grant Hiltbrand