This week was awesome!! We had a solid work week. Not a lot of stuff crazy happened but it was just a really good week.
We
had concilio this week for the mission so we had to get everything
ready for that like buy all the tickets and make all the folders for the
zone leaders and schedule the hostal. Things like that. Good thing is
everything is getting easier to do! WHOOP WHOOP!
We also had an interesting thing happen this week. We went to
an orphanage. We recieved a reference one day while eating lunch with a
member of a kid at her work who had gone to church a few times. So we
went and it was actually a cool experiance. We walked in and all the
kids just ran up to us and started jumping on us and stuff. So we kinda
had to do the heisman as missionaries but the kids were super awesome.
We met up with the member and she took us to her supervisors office to
talk for a while. She basically explained that she would love to have us
there, the missionaries talk to her family, but because it is a state
facility, we couldnt come and talk to steven there. We would have to
arrainge to meet with him somewhere else. So we were kind of bummed but
she said if she ever has any service, she will call us. We might go back
and help teach english. So that will be cool.
Elder Running and I held down the offices for a day because
the other elders had to go to concilio with everyone else. It was pretty
fun and we got a ton done. That night we went out and taught some
really awesome lessons. We go and read with a recent convert, Yoshua,
and we are teaching him how to ponder while he reads and how he can
apply the scriptures as he reads and it is soooo cool to see him
progress. When we first started, we would stop and explain it to him,
then we would explain it together, and now we are telling him that he
has to break it down for us and he does. The other day we were reading
in first nefi somewhere, and he started explaining the whole chapter and
getting super excited. He has been applying what he has learned as
well. It was great to see how happy he was to read the scriptures. Such a
stud! After we had a few more lessons and then went to go pick up
people to take them to the bus station. When we got to the mission home
we had 15 minutes till thier bus left and it was pretty far.
bbbbuuuttttt, we got them there in time ;)
Our investigator Daniel is still progressing. Things are
complicated with his family. He told us this week that if it was just
for him, he already would have been baptized. He told us that everything
we have taught him he knows to be true. So its kind of a bummer but he
is still progressing.
Things with Bruno are kind of getting more and more complicated as
well. His parents are getting divorced and they are having a lot of
family problems. He also got really sick this past week and then his
sister had to go to hospital for something as well. We really want his
mom to come to church on a regular basis before he gets baptized so that
the family supports him. We need his mom to be an example to him. But
we had some really spiritual lessons with thim and i know they will be
just fine.
Oh and the sisters left our area so we got half of their
area and their investigators and more members to go and visit. So we
have been doing a lot of work there as well! We have been seeing some
blessings come from that area.
Oh and some UPS girl came this week and wanted to talk to
me about logistics haha. Elder Running and I talked to her for like 20
minutes and just told her that we dont contract shipping.
This morning we went to go play soccer at 630 with elders from our
mission, after we went to a two hour service project, and after that we
went to play futbol americano against the other mission. After an hour
and a half of that we had lunch with all 6 of us (the office elders and
the assistants) and a member of our ward. Then we just finished playing
basketball with some youth of the ward. So all and all it was a great
week.
A spiritual thought this week comes from the book of Mosiah del LdM, Mosiah 5:2.
Se
dice : "Y todos clamaron a una vox, diciendo: Sí, creemos todas las
plabras que nos has hablado; y además, sabemos de su certeza y verdad
por el Espíritu del Señor Omnipotente, el cual ha efectuado un potente
cambio en nosotros, o sea, en nuestros carazones, por lo que ya no
tenemos más disposición a obrar mal, sino a hacer lo bueno
continuamente."
(
And they all cried with one voice, saying:
Yea, we believe all the words which thou hast spoken unto us; and also,
we know of their surety and truth, because of the Spirit of the Lord
Omnipotent, which has wrought a mighty
achange in us, or in our hearts, that we have no more disposition to do
bevil, but to do good continually)
I love this scripture so much! I was talking to Elder Bedke
about this scripture earlier this week and we were talking about how we
can teach with the Spirit more and why it is important that the Spirit
is there and what we can do to improve and everything. We talked about
how we need to study by the spirit to be able to teach by the Spirit. We
as missionaries know that we are only instruments that our Heavenly
Father can work through. It is only by the Spirit that we can be truely
converted to the gospel. This is why it is so important to do the small
and simple things that invite the Spirit into our life like scripture
study, prayer, and going to church. These things are basic but powerful.
As we do them, we will find that we have the presence of the Spirit más
abundantemente in our lives. We have to remember that our conversion
isnt just a one time thing and ya esta. Its a continual process in which
we need his help. We should strive every day to have this change of
heart that is described here.
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