Hello Family!
I imagine everyone is busy with the normal Saturday activities! I'm writing today as opposed to Memorial day because we changed p-day to Tuesday. However this next week all zone leaders and 7 district leaders will be coming to the mission home for a boot camp so we won't have time to email next week!
Miracles are all over the place! It really is a unique time to be serving a full-time mission, especially here in the South. We have been on 7 exchanges this week going everywhere from Atlanta, to Powder Springs, Fayetteville, to Conyers! What has been of great joy to me is that no day is ever the same and it allows me to constantly rely on the Savior for His help and guidance each day.
4 names you can pray for our Ka. and Sh., Tm. and Dx. In a couple of our exchanges we found these prepared families and they are progressing really well, have come to church and loved it, and are committed to be baptized! Through the spirit we were lead and guided to them and they were ready to receive the restored gospel!
Have a great week! I love you! Talk to you in June!
Love,
Elder Gautavai
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From: Elder Camree Gautavai
Date: May 24, 2014 at 10:07:23 AM MDT
To: Mom
Good Afternoon!
How are you?
I imagine someone is mowing the lawn right now? Grocery shopping about to take place at Costco's? lol Probably a surprise to be hearing from me today rather than Monday!
Because of Memorial day on Monday, and because we have a zone leader/district leader boot camp to be held at the mission home this next week, we will not have time to email next week. So we get to do it today! Summer is definitely here! It's very humid and hot, sweating all the time!
This new assignment certainly has prompted me to change and to change quite often with each day being a whole new experience in a whole different environment. I think of Elder Neil A. Andersen's General Conference talk about spiritual whirlwinds and through the different changes; but as we get sink our roots deeper and farther into the rock that is the Savior we are able to overcome all things.
We have been all over the place this week; starting in Atlanta, then heading to Powder Springs, back to Whitewater, to Conyers, and now here in Griffin. There really is no time to rest!
The neatest experience happened on exchanges yesterday! It's a constant reminder to me of the lessons that the Lord will teach us if we are patient and humble. We visited with a less-active sister/mother who refuses to come back to her Church due to the way her children were treated by an individual in the ward. She stated that she fully understands that she will be held accountable because she isn't coming to church; but that she will not, cannot, come and partake of the sacrament if she has no intentions of keeping her end. My heart hurt for her with great love. We assured her that she alone could not overcome this hatred towards the individual; rather that only through the Savior's Atonement and her total reliance on Him would she be then freed from this heavy burden. She then began to tear up and said she would reconsider her feelings. My companion on exchange with me said "I wish we could have done more" and I simply replied Elder the Lord taught us arguably one of the greatest lessons just now. It is simply that we cannot ever overcome feelings of the natural man on our own and until we totally rely on Him we will not have the strength needed beyond our own to overcome. Another important lesson is that our eternal companion must be deeply rooted with us in the consistent reading of the book of Mormon, prayer, attending church, and the temple (unitedly). How grateful I am to learn this lesson now than some time later (future).
Well I will hear from you next week by then it will be June! Amazing what is happening and at the pace it is happening!
Love,
Elder Gautavai
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