Elder Benjamin Massey: 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