Dear Family,
This week was good, honestly pretty
hard, but still good. I have honestly been struggling this last week and
have just felt pretty stressed out with a lot of things and trying to adjust to
things and to be a better companion. I am trying to be a good companion
but know that I have many weaknesses. I know that I sometimes am
impatient, and can get frustrated too easily. I feel like I need to strive to
be more humble and selfless in my companionship and that that will really help
things go better. Pretty much what I am learning about getting along with
others that being selfless is best. I am continuing to learn and grow a
lot. And I love Elder Jensen, he's a super fun and great guy and he is an
amazing missionary; we're both learning a lot. Things are good!
This week I had the opportunity of
going on an exchange with Elder Jongsma! I brought him into my area and we had
some good things that happened. The focus of the exchange was to strive
to be Christ like and about being. We talked about
setting goals weekly and setting goals daily. I challenged him to
prayerfully set a daily goal each day for how he can do a little bit better and
to really focus on that one goal for the day and try to really do his best on
one point that he feels to work on. I committed to do this too and am
glad that I am emailing about it because it reminds me that I need to do better
at this myself! I learned a lot about him and I was impressed with how
loving and Christ like he is, I also like how he really tried to help the
people that we met with understand what we were teaching and if they started
getting distracted or talking about something else he would help them focus on
the lesson again. One thing that we wanted to work on was contacting and
on trying to be open to the Spirit and contact those whom we feel impressed to
talk with; to be willing to stop and share this message. Also, just to be
opening our mouths and talk with everyone everywhere we are. Elder Jongsma is a
great Elder and I am so glad to be able to serve near him and be in the same
house; he's from my MTC group and it's crazy that we've been friends for just
over a year now!
Elder Jensen is feeling a lot
better, pretty much 100 percent now! So that's great:) We have a new
investigator named Gum Ly and a couple of her family members who we are going
to hopefully start meeting with this week which is exciting!
I am sorry not a whole lot to share
this week but know that..
Things are going great! I hope that
the same goes for you. I love you so much. I hope you know that and that
I am deeply grateful for all of you and for your prayers in my behalf and that
of our dear brothers and sisters here in Cambodia. Have a terrific week!
Elder Garlick
PS. I will send a whole bunch of
pictures soon!
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