Wednesday, 13 November 2013

Late email

This email is coming on a Wednesday as it was our temple day today - it was wonderful to go to the temple. I had
the opportunity to do baptisms and confirmations, it was great. I
can't remember much of last week, it all seeks to blend now so I'm not sure what
was this week and last week and three weeks ago hahaha! It was a pretty good
week as far as I remember, I think the thing I most remember was trade-offs with
the District leader, it was great learning from him. He is from Niue. He is a great missionary and is very bold. We were
blessed to find a less active part member family whose children were being
taught by the missionaries in the past and then just didn't go back for some
reason. We've been doing a lot of finding but we really need to change it up. We
are finding people but it really isn't that effective. We have been able to be
with a Fijian family though who we found a week or two ago. The Husband is a less active member with non member wife and children, they are awesome, we are going round
for dinner and hopefully will be able to start teaching them, the wife had a lot
of questions last time. I've found that as I get closer to the end of my mission, temptation
has increased and I find I have to be constantly on the move focussing on the
gospel and the people, this time will be a time of real growth. I am studying
Jesus the Christ by James E. Talmage at the mo, it has some amazing insights and
incredible gospel truths. The miracles and the teachings of Christ are
incredible to study and ponder and motivate us to be more like him, better
teachers and disciples. I find myself just like Jeffrey R. Holland fascinated by
the Apostles, they remind me of myself, so impetuous and unlearned in the ways
of the Kingdom of God and things. Obviously they are no longer like that and
have progressed beyond all that and those same blessings are available to us. I
was also on trade-offs this week with our Zone Leader and learned some
great things from him. We were talking about how there are so many things that
testify the Gospel and the Church of Jesus Christ is true and than we began
talking about how each person is a child of God and began pointing at the passing
cars say "he's a child of God... he's a child of God... she's a child of God.... he can become a god, and he doesn't even know it" As we remember that these
people are all children of God, our brothers and sisters, we WANT to share the
gospel with them. I am so grateful for everything I have, my family, friends and
all of you wonderful people who give me the support and love I need.

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Elder John Kay's Mission

Elder Kay will serve a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Brisbane Australia for two years from December 2011. I will be posting excerpts from his emails and photos to keep his friends up to date. If you would like to write to him please address your letters to