იესო ქრისტეს სახარება ჭეშმარითია

September 2, 2019

იესო ქრისტეს სახარება ჭეშმარითია  (Jesus Christ Gospel is true)

Okay, let's jump right into it, shall we?

       Do I know the language? Of course not. It'll take me a year and a half before I can understand most things and speak fluently. For now, I have Elder Hunt. I don't know what I'll do in 10 weeks when I don't.  The people we meet with are actually very helpful. Since they know I've only been in country for 2 weeks, they are very kind and always tell me to write down words. Good thing I know the word for "write it down". 

       The week started out slow. Tuesday we had a combined District council meeting with the whole zone. We did language study, then we had a big training on the new Area Book app. We are transferring all our teaching records (from more than a decade ago) to digital, so there will be a lot of paperwork for the next few weeks. In other news, we met with a fair amount of people this week, but we didn't find very many new people to teach. Pretty unlucky.

       There was one day that wasn't optimal. Our water was shut off so we weren't able to do dishes from breakfast, take showers, or anything important to getting ready for the day. This was fine, but when we came home at night the water was still off! Finally at about 10:30 pm the water came back on. Great timing. 

       Church was good this week. Elder Hunt taught Sunday school again and there was pretty good discussion. Its never perfect because we have several native languages (Georgian, Russian, Farsi and English), but the discussion always goes pretty smoothly. Later that evening, we met with a friend at a nearby lake. We took a stroll around the perimeter and discussed religion, its purposes and how the spirit speaks to us. It was very nice. 

       This week we talked to several people about gifts of the spirit, and I studied gifts of the spirit a couple times in personal study as well. One thing that stuck out to me is that we cannot fully receive gifts of the spirit unless we have charity in our hearts. 1 Corinthians 13:1-2 and Moroni 7:43-44.  Another thing that I found was to have faith, hope or charity you must be both humble and meek. Meekness is a true attribute of deity. We cannot develop any other Christlike attributes without meekness. It is all dependent on our level of humility and meekness. Many things can humble us, but we must allow ourselves to be humbled by the experiences that befall us. 

       Anyway. I'm more than 10% done with my mission, so I only have almost 100% left. See you soon.  Send me questions, insights and more.  I love you all. 

We know some people that own drink shops.  We go in and help out the business and answer any Gospel questions they have.

Tbilisi has beautiful sunsets that don't show up as well on film.