Hello everyone! Today's email is going to be great.
So, Tuesday night we met with the leadership of our ward, which we do every other week. We were talking about how the missionaries could work more closely with the different classes and groups to find people to teach and help the ward run more smoothly. The woman in charge of the young women's classes said that the 16-18 year old girls would not have a teacher on Sunday, and that she would love for us to come teach their class on whatever we wanted to teach, in the hopes of inspiring them to go on missions themselves. We were really excited about it, and after praying and studying together, we choose to teach about humility, and how it cam be empowering. It was shaping up to be a really good lesson.
Well, Sunday came around, and we made sure our investigator got to her class, our recent convert got to hers, and then we went to teach. We started teaching, and after about 5 minutes, in walks our mission president and his wife. And then our bishop. And then Dallin H. Oaks of the Quorom of the Twelve Apostles.
You read that right. Sister Rydalch and I taught a lesson on humility to AN APOSTLE!! And our lesson came mostly from Preach My Gospel, which was written by a committee lead by THAT VERY APOSTLE.
Being the amazing person apostles are, he participated in the class, complimented us on our teaching, and told us that "it takes a very special missionary to serve a foreign speaking mission in the states." And he would know, because he is the one who assigned my call!!!
And, in case you were wondering, here is the comment he made in our class:
"One definition of humility that I like is willingness to learn."
I've been thinking about that for the past two days, and the more I think about it, the more perfect that definition seems to me. If you are truly willing to learn, you accept criticism and try to change. You see the good in others and try to emulate it in yourself. You are willing to try anything, knowing that you don't have to be perfect, you just have to learn everything you can from the experience. Sounds like humility to me.
On a less shocking note, Sister Rydalch and I took up scrap booking yesterday.
That's all for this week everyone. I love you and you're amazing!
Love,
Sister Lemon
P.S. In case you don't believe me, here is the photo evidence.
So, Tuesday night we met with the leadership of our ward, which we do every other week. We were talking about how the missionaries could work more closely with the different classes and groups to find people to teach and help the ward run more smoothly. The woman in charge of the young women's classes said that the 16-18 year old girls would not have a teacher on Sunday, and that she would love for us to come teach their class on whatever we wanted to teach, in the hopes of inspiring them to go on missions themselves. We were really excited about it, and after praying and studying together, we choose to teach about humility, and how it cam be empowering. It was shaping up to be a really good lesson.
Well, Sunday came around, and we made sure our investigator got to her class, our recent convert got to hers, and then we went to teach. We started teaching, and after about 5 minutes, in walks our mission president and his wife. And then our bishop. And then Dallin H. Oaks of the Quorom of the Twelve Apostles.
You read that right. Sister Rydalch and I taught a lesson on humility to AN APOSTLE!! And our lesson came mostly from Preach My Gospel, which was written by a committee lead by THAT VERY APOSTLE.
Being the amazing person apostles are, he participated in the class, complimented us on our teaching, and told us that "it takes a very special missionary to serve a foreign speaking mission in the states." And he would know, because he is the one who assigned my call!!!
And, in case you were wondering, here is the comment he made in our class:
"One definition of humility that I like is willingness to learn."
I've been thinking about that for the past two days, and the more I think about it, the more perfect that definition seems to me. If you are truly willing to learn, you accept criticism and try to change. You see the good in others and try to emulate it in yourself. You are willing to try anything, knowing that you don't have to be perfect, you just have to learn everything you can from the experience. Sounds like humility to me.
On a less shocking note, Sister Rydalch and I took up scrap booking yesterday.
That's all for this week everyone. I love you and you're amazing!
Love,
Sister Lemon
P.S. In case you don't believe me, here is the photo evidence.
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