Boxing Day

Hi there,
My name is Kim Allen, my husband David emailed you a picture of Elder Massey at our home last week. I thought I would mail you some more pictures of this evening, when Elder Massey and Elder Chu came again to our home for a Boxing Day dinner! Hope you enjoy these!! You have a great son, and my family love having him and Elder Chu in our home! 
Much love!  

Elder Massey's Christmas

    

Week 18

Sorry I wasn't able to say good bye to you mom, I actually went 30 minutes over the time. So I had to just end it. But I hope you like the pictures and that you have a good day today. I'm sorry I cried so much and that I was so rude to you which seemed so long ago, but was just a year ago. I let a lot of unnecessary things affect me so deeply, but i will say my mission has put a lot of things into perspective. I'm trying my best to be the best missionary possible, so don't think I'm not trying. But sometimes I know I could do better and I could try harder, but I'm striving to be better on that as well.
Well I love you mom and thank you for all you have done for me

LoveElder Massey 

 

   

 

 

Week 17

This week has been the most stressful week of my life..... But I'm loving it! A lot has happened a lot of success and some learning opportunities along the way. Let's get down to the good stuff; we had
a baptism this week! But don't get too excited before I tell the story. Arthur Fortes is his name and he is an interesting case, he has been a member for about 7 years and was baptized twice in the Philippines. Apparently their record keeping is poor because we had to teach him everything and re-baptize him and confirm him. But it has been a really chaotic journey to get him here. He actually didn't want
to be baptized and neither did his family. They are a part member family and only his dad is a member, and his dad hated us and missionaries. We had to rebaptism him, we had it all last month but because of some difficulties and misunderstanding we weren't able to
baptize him. So this last week we got the green light and Elder Chu and myself basically just did everything by ourselves and the members helped out with the last little bit, which really was assuring and built my testimony on how members are the most effective means for missionary work. Well we pushed through Arthur's baptism despite the million and one things that went wrong, name something and it went
wrong.  It was a spiritual experience and really ignited a fire with in me on wanting to meet President’s expectations and be not just obedient but perfectly obedient. Well to be honest I have a lot of
stuff to do today and I can't write too much, love you guys

Elder Massey

 

 

Words of Encouragement

The families words of encouragement has given me the fire and motivation this past week not only to continue on working but to work with a smile on my face and a song in my heart. This week I have experience literal miracles of finding the Lords prepared people. People who have literally been seeking out the representatives of the church of Jesus Christ of latter day saints and people who seeming fell through the cracks of past missionaries hands who now want to enter into the waters of baptism within this coming year. My new companion Elder Chu being the seasoned veteran missionary he is, has been teaching me through his example about the fruits of diligent work and the blessings of being firmly planted in PMG and the white hand book. This week has been hard but it has been rewarding. I have been studying on how to be more of a consecrated missionary and what that actually means in the Lords eyes. I think the biggest thing I have learned from experience is the yielding of not just your might and strength to the lord but your heart and mind as well. Because those are the things that the Lord, through his respect for agency, can not have, and has to be given liberally. I still struggle giving it all up, but Im slowly learning. Thank you all for the good wishes and the fun videos. im sending a Christmas card that should have a little message for every family. but I love you all, and I miss you all!

-- 

Benji J. Massey

 

Email from Elder Muchmore

 

Week 15

   This week has been a full one! Elder O'Hare and I unfortunately have to separate for a season and take on new companions. My fantastic new companion is from Hong Kong 🇭🇰 and his name is elder Chu, he has

taught me so much already with in this first week of the transfer.

    Being a brand new missionary I have been taught a lot of things but I have been thinking a lot about humility and what that means in the

aspect of missionary work. I was thinking about how either the Lord will humble you or you can humble yourself, and how if you humble yourself you obtain numerous more blessings on the account of your

understanding of the heavy reliance you have on the Lord.

    I have been focusing on trying to humble myself even more and becoming more teachable with my new companion. He is experienced with the ways of

missionary work and through observation I have learned how to become a more diligent effective missionary. 

   I have been also focusing my studies on Christ like charity which is an aspect I truly need to work on, and how why with out charity we are nothing. My understanding of charity has grown and actually is essential for not only effective missionary work but for salvation as well. We have to have a Christ like love for others and if we do have love for them it shows our Heavenly Father we love him. Such as it says in mosiah 2:17 "when you are in the service of your fellow beings he are only in the service of your God", we can serve others with our Christ like love that we

attain as a gift from our Heavenly Father.  

    But my understanding is still coming on charity, but to be honest my example of charity is my sister Savannah. She has charity that I never understood and everyone knows it. Some day I want to have that understanding that my little sister has had since birth. The work is hard our here but it is good,

     I can see why this is the hardest mission. I think people are just too focused on the materialistic things of this world and it shows how the adversary works and how strong his hold is on the hearts of these

people.

    I love you all! And hope to hear back from you. I'm sorry my emails are not as long, but I hope they are meaningful

 

Longest pier in the world

 

 

Elder Massey

  

Week 14

Family,

I'll keep this email short and sweet, mostly because I cant remember that far back; But i will tell you some of the good parts. We were following up on some potential investigators named Kevin, Elder O'hare was making fun of me because I couldn't remember his name and kept on calling him David. Anyways he invited us in and we taught him about the book of mormon and prophets, then his mother in law who wasn't paying attention started tuning in. She turned off the tv and joined in, she started asking question that we answered. We expected to be there 15 minutes tops dropping off a book of mormon and making an appointment. but we ended up spending an hour or so teaching the restoration to their family, when elder o'hare was quoting the first vision she closed her eyes and just felt the spirit. did i mention this is a huge Jamaican family. they invited us back and we caught ourselves about 3 or 4 investigators with this family. Moving on in the highlights we had thanksgiving dinner at a members home in Grays during exchanges (no I didn't take pictures, sorry) but it was a lot of food and i made a few new friends in that family. Then we had stake conference were I was spiritually enlightened by my mission president and his wife, i felt like grandma taking notes from all the other speakers. We invited a less active to it and she came, and by invite I mean elder o'hare spiritually rebuked her for going less active and she brought another one of her less active friends with her and they met up with their old church friends. Anyways it was a fun week of just lifting people up closer to our heavenly father, elder o'hare has taught me quite a lot on how to be more enthusiastic and happy which I obviously had to work on, but i love the mission and am trying to reprogram my brain to strive towards one goal which is BAPTISM! We were supposed to have 3 baptisms this transfer between the two of us but it just wasn't their time but I'm learning to accept the lords time table. sorry for the short letter and hope to write a longer one next time. 

Elder Massey