What a great
week of transitions and excitement. I left you last week on the brink
of it all and I feel like so much has happened from then to now. Let's
see if I can't bring you up to speed in the next couple of minutes. So
last Monday night after taking a picture with our zone it was off to the
office to meet my new companion. The trainers for the new transfer are
me, Elder Boyd, Elder Lloyd and Elder Bayartsogt. As we walked into the President's house for the meeting it was half deja vu from a year and 4
months ago and half "where has the time gone?" After a small talk with
the President we paired up and I'll be training Elder Muldowney this upcoming twelve weeks in Sukhbaatar which is going to be and has
already been a wonderful experience.
Elder Muldowney is from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The 9th in a
twelve children family. I can't say I quite pass the test on remembering
who is who yet but I'm working on it. Straight out of high school he
was 18 when he got to the MTC in December. So humble and ready to do
great work. He's thinking about being a horse trainer when he gets home. Just a great guy, already feel like we've been friends forever.
We've been moving along quickly this week as we try to learn the
entire area from the sisters who leave this upcoming Thursday. That's
had us at at least 5 houses a day meeting and getting to know people.
The area is massive so I'm not sure if Ive got it all down yet, but we're
hoping we can get close and fill in the gaps as we go along.
We are actually living with the Khailaast elders for the time
being and it's been crazy having four in one apartment, but been great to
be with Elder Williams. There's only two beds, so we are on the floor,
but we have great heart to hearts before passing out each night. I'm
pretty sure I fell asleep mid sentence last night.
The coolest part of the week had to be Saturday when we took a
taxi 45 minutes outside of the city to a little collection of houses in
our area. There's a few members and an investigator out there so we go
about every Saturday. It was gorgeous and the air was so clean.
However, the best part of the week was probably the first house
that we went to on our very first day with the sisters. We met with a
sister who has just been called to be the new visiting teaching
coordinator. I think that's probably the most difficult calling in
Mongolia. She was talking a little bit about selecting counselors and
trying to figure out how to get started. As we shared a spiritual
thought I felt impressed to share out of D&C 8:2 "Yea, behold, I will atell you in your mind and in your bheart, by the cHoly Ghost, which shall come upon you and which shall dwell in your heart." and then I talked in part about how the Lord will tell us spiritually in our heart
and in a real and very physical way through our mind. The most
important part of our seeking revelation is that of our own personal
effort. We are far more likely to receive personal confirmation on an
idea that we have studied out in our mind than an epiphany of what to
do.
After we shared the scripture the sister said, "That's exactly
right! That's exactly what happened. I prayed for confirmation about an
impression I had and I thought I felt the guidance of the Holy Ghost...but then you shared that scripture and I knew that I had felt
the confirmation of the Holy Ghost through what you described." It was a
great moment and a moment where I could truly see the Lord put into
my mind what to be said. It was also a demonstration of the principle
that the Lord will only bring to mind that which we have studied or
ponder out before hand.
There are about a thousand other elements to the week that made it
so awesome. Not the least of which was seeing so many people I know
from the Khailaast Ward and about half my MTC group at the baptism on
Friday night.
Elder Neuberger
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