Hermana Kenedi Ayre

Hello this week has been good. Hermana Schmit and I had the car this week so that rocked, although I do really love riding my bike just not when we have appointments that are 20 plus miles away. I've done that and it was no fun.

This week we had some good lessons and we continue to contact all the fair referrals! We knock into some really interesting situations when contacting everyone. We have had referrals to meth labs, (fun fact Tennessee has the highest use of meth in the whole country) crazy ladies, creeper men, and all walks of life" we are all children of God"... The last few weeks have been interesting, but out of the 400 referrals we received we have about 150 more to contact. Good news right.

We really have seen some amazing miracles come from all the referrals. There really are people who truly are seeking for truth and that desire the comfort and blessings that the gospel brings.

As my schedule has become very repetitive the last few weeks it has been hard to maintain a burning desire for the work," we have seen a lot of rejection lately." A talk/story by Joseph B. Wirthlin 1982 really helped my perspective change.

"There is a story about a young builder who had just gone into business for himself. A wealthy friend of his father came to him and said: “To get you started right, I am going to have you build a ranch house for me. Here are the plans. Don’t skimp on anything. I want the very finest materials used, and I want flawless workmanship. Forget the cost. Just send me the bills.”

The young builder became obsessed with the desire to enrich himself through this generous and unrestricted offer. Instead of employing top-grade labor and buying the finest materials, he shortchanged his benefactor in every way possible. Finally, the last secondhand nail was driven into the last flimsy wall, and the builder handed over the keys and bills, totaling over a hundred thousand dollars, to his father’s old friend. That gentleman wrote a check in full for the structure and then handed the keys back to the builder. “The home you have just built, my boy,” he said with a pleasant smile, “is my present to you. May you live in it in great happiness!”"

At the end of each day, week, month, and by the end of my mission I get to look upon the results and the over all outcome of my mission. This is my mission and I want to know that I put all my efforts and put all diligence into the lords work because at the end of everything this mission experience will be my memory for the rest of my life and I will have to live with the type of work I put into the Nashville TN mission.

I hope that we can all love our Heavenly Father enough to do our best work for Him. Then when our work is over and we have build a beautiful mansion for him, he will turn and give us the key to the mansion we built for him.

I am so grateful for the blessing I have to be a missionary and to serve the Lord full time. I hope that everyday, missionary or not, we can go to bed knowing that we made our Father in Haven proud of us that day.

Have a great week family and friends, love ya'll.

(Oh and this week I will start being a facebook missionary, so I will add all of yall, but I can not chat with anyone. But the mission encourages our families to like my posts and give comments on my facebook posts so I can have more facebook traffic! )

Love,

Hermana Ayre

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