Hi Everyone,
Here is Frasier's latest letter. He didn't send one last week, since we had just barely had our Mother's Day call. He did, however, send a few pictures and some explanations.
On the call, we told him to go to the store and spend some extra money and splurge. So, he let us know that he went to the store and he got some ice cream and some Mountain Dew (or as he called it: "Sweet Nectar from Heaven") ha ha!
He also left a few things OUT OF THE PHONE CALL and instead sent pictures afterward. Ugh! :)
A bat somehow got into our apartment last week. I took a picture of it before throwing it outside:
Apparently, my skin is super sensitive here, so I have a pretty bad heat rash right now. Sister Hiatt is trying to take care of me though:
Of course, I had to take a picture with the Avengers poster. I thought I would add in just a touch of corny Mormonism by holding up the Ang Aklat ni Mormon in the picture.
This week has kind of been an off week as far as normal work goes.
On Tuesday I went on splits with Elder Jayme. I love being with Elder Jayme. We are really good friends and I like him a lot. The only problem is that we got sidetracked with other things that we had to do that day so we didn't have the opportunity to teach very much that day.
On Wednesday Elder Stevens and I worked in our area, but it was a slow day just as usual. There aren't a ton of people that are ready to receive us right now.
Thursday was Zone Conference. Due to traveling and lack of people to listen we weren't able to get in a lesson that day.
Here is our zone:
Friday we had weekly planning, and then it started raining really hard so that made it just slightly inconvenient to go out and work. Of course, we still did, but not a ton of people are out when it is raining, and the teaching isn't very good because of the tin roofs that everyone has.
Saturday and Sunday were Roxas District Conference. With traffic and lots of meetings, it was hard to get in a lot of lessons those days as well.
Even though the District Conference wasn't particularly directed towards me as a missionary, I still felt very motivated and inspired by the messages shared on ministering. I felt really inspired to go out and try and be a minister to everyone I see. Combine that with the messages I heard at Zone Conference and I would say my spiritual gas tank is on full right now. I just pray for opportunities to exercise what I have learned.
I am going to be completely honest and say I don't really feel like I am a total missionary right now. Just with the lack of "success" in the area right now and all the other things that have happened this past week it is making me re-think a little bit. I know that numbers are important, but I think I am letting them get me down. There is only so much I can do to control the actual outcome of the numbers. I also feel like I am more a follower than the leader that I thought I was. With my previous companions in previous areas, we would get work done, contact, and were "successful". Now that I am with a companion who is still a great missionary and a great person, but maybe has a little bit of a harder time getting down to work or taking the initiative, I have not been able to pick up the slack like I should. I admit that our contacting is not where it should be, as well as we are struggling to teach "really good lessons". I think the key to that all is that we just need to work as hard as we can and let the Spirit take care of the rest.
I was emailing my dad and maybe complained more than I should of, but he gave me some really good advice that as I have focused on. It has actually changed my work a lot more than I thought it would. He told me that all missions are different. He said that he only taught a couple of lessons a week his whole mission. Other missionaries walk a lot more than I even do. He told me that I need to enjoy everything. Enjoy the 21,000 steps every day, enjoy the nanays getting mad at me, enjoy…enjoy…enjoy. To me, I think that is what will give you the satisfaction and feeling of success is when you enjoy your mission (for the right reasons of course).
Just to inform you, it is mango, watermelon, and pineapple season right now. My diet consists of a lot of fresh fruit! Even though I am pretty sure the people are ripping me off, I don't really care because it tastes so good.
Here is a super unflattering picture of me eating a mango:
All is well here in Zion’s Camp. It is definitely a trial, but I am happy and trying my best.
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Forever and a day, Love Elder Williamson!
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