Week 54 - More Powerful Prayer

Monday 11/6/2016 

In the morning we played a game of rugby with the Poly program and some other missionaries. That was nice it has been quite a while since I have played a game of rugby. After we finished we went back changed and got some lunch. We met back up at a bowling alley. We got there and a Spanish zone just happened to be there too. When we finished bowling we stopped by pday activity. Our dinner was with the Tuimalo family at Marie Calendars. We went to go see the Castro family, but they were walking out the door as we were walking up to the door. We finished the night helping setup for a relief society thing at the Remington's home. 

Tuesday 

We weren't able to get out for a little while since we were a little under the weather most of the day. We went out and tried to visit some people before we stopped by the Remington's to get some dinner. We went and saw Daniel, but he was resting some we didn't have too long with him. We went back to the Remington's home to help take down some of the stuff from the relief society thing that they had. We went back in and finished the night. 

Wednesday  

In the morning after studies we gave Elder Sparacino/Lee a ride to the store to get some bike parts. We had some lunch before we went back out to do some finding. We were able to see the Sanders family and talk to their son. We have been given the task of going and visiting all of the priest aged boys in the ward. We have been talking about missions with them. After we had a lesson with Daniel and discussed the Law of Chastity. He is planning on getting married to his girlfriend in the next month. The bishop will possibly be preforming the marriage. We went and helped brother Remington take things back to the church building. He got us some dinner before we had to head back in for the night. 

Thursday 

In the morning we had district meeting. We talked about the sacrament and making a more Holy experience. We focused on some of the points from the talk The Sacrament Can Help Us Become Holy by Elder Peter F. Meurs. It reminded me of always trying to focus on the Savior during the administration of the sacrament. After our meeting we grabbed some Chick-fil-A for the grab then gather. We went to the mission office to pick up a perishable package for Elder Rubio. We stopped by Joe's on the way back to Placentia. I made some fettuccine Alfredo for dinner. We then went out to visit people we didn't get anyone before the end of the night.

Friday  

In the morning after our studies we did some cleaning and made some lunch before apartment inspections. The zone leaders came around after a long while. We then went out to begin finding people. We got a call from Sylvia to help her install a new microwave. We had a quick dinner before we had to go and see Daniel. Brother Larson was able to make it to our lesson with Daniel where we discussed prayer and scripture study. We stressed the importance of him coming to church. He is hoping to come to church if his girlfriends daughter isn't having her baby. We tried to go see some more priests in the ward. We knocked on a door looking for a Carson, it turned out to be the wrong house. The people then proceed to look for Carson even though no one lived there by that name. People still seem to surprise me I don't understand why you would check for someone in your house if they don't live there. 

Saturday 

After our studies we went and picked up Elder Sparacino/Lee for a service. We went to the Gibbon's house to help put a supporting beam in their house. The thing was around 500 lbs. only a few people showed at first which had us a little nervous. Eventually more people started to show up. Then we lifted the beam above our heads and put it into place with limited trouble. We dropped Elder Sparacino/Lee off and had a quick lunch. We had a service at Sylvia's place cleaning up her yard of the leaves. After we finished we got ready for dinner. We had dinner with the Thompsons at Kyoto a Chinese, Japanese, BBQ buffet. We decided that Kyoto wasn't the best choice for dinning. So after many rounds of sushi and other food we were left with aching stomachs. The rice expands. We were hardly able to move for the rest of the night. 

Sunday

We didn't have ward council in the morning. There was quite the turnout since there was a Trumbo boy giving a return talk and one giving a farewell talk. They gave good talks on personal revelation. We didn't have anyone come to gospel principles so we went to gospel doctrine. After church we stopped by the Trumbo's home for the party that they were throwing. We were able to talk to a friend of the Trumbo boys. He had investigated previously so we talked about him getting an answer on if it is true. We left and tried to see a few people. Elder Sparacino/Lee made Elder Rubio a cookie for his birthday so we stopped by their apartment. We then headed in for the night.

More Powerful Prayer 

Prayer is an act of faith. Prayer is communication with our father in Heaven. What we may not realize or sometimes forget is that he is always ready to listen to and answer our prayers. We need to make sure that our prayers always have power. We should always try to make our prayers meaningful which holds great power. When we do this it helps us not fall in to vainly repeating. One way to keep it meaningful is praying with real intent. I'm reminded of Moroni 10, we are left with the promise of finding out if the Book of Mormon is true, but one thing it hinges on is if we have a real intent and desire to know. I have seen investigators that have said they had prayed. The thing that they lacked was wanting to really know if it is true which left them without an answer. If we are praying without intent there is purpose lacking. We must always make sure that we are not just falling into the same pattern with our prayers, make them have more power as they are more meaningful. 

Not a lot of pictures this week.