well, time really does seem to be flying by, we are already
in april and this next week i will complete 9 months in the mission, crazy
eh??? anyways im not counting or anything, just thought it was interesting!
haha
This week was a good one, we have worked really hard, we
invited everyone we talked to to church with us and ended up having a good turn
out of 5 new investigators, so that was pretty much the highlight! on the other
hand, we found out that one of the people we have been teaching with a
baptismal date for next week returned to there old church without saying
anything to us, when we talked to her, basically just said she didnt care where
she went, god is the same of all the churches, we thought we had explained
authority and everything but i guess it didnt get through, thats the biggest
problem here, if anyone says anything about god the whole world will believe
it. which doesnt have to be a bad thing, but makes it more difficult to explain
that gods authority is found by only certain people here in the earth. ive
studied that a little more this week, a good topic.
but apart from that, we did some service for a member,
pulled weeds in her front yard for 2 hours in mid day, made me think back to
the good old summer days in the front yard, thanks for teaching me to work hard
dad! :) also gave a couple birthday cakes to investigators this week, one ended
up being wrotten on the inside, we got a refund which was good, i guess it just
has to be the thought that counts right??? haha
then today we went to "El Conde" a big shopping
street, and found a pizza hut, but it was the nicest pizza hut in the world,
felt like an outback steakhouse or olive garden in the US, they treated us like
kings with our american pizza ;) haha great P day activity!
Over all great week, loving the mission, loving the power
that god shows through his missionaries, especially my companion Elder Palma,
his spirit is so strong, definately blessed to be with him :)
president corbitt just called me to tell me that he needs me
to do a special transfer to leave my area and be a Zone Leader with an Elder
named Elder Zamora, so i wont be training any more, but Elder Beard is going to
come here to finish the training of Elder Palma, crazy crazy crazy!!! im not
ready to be a zone leader!!! thats insane!!! but its way funny that elder beard
is coming to replace me!!! haha i leave tomorrow!!!
but to answer your question dad, i think that the priesthood
is real, the power of the priesthood is real and that through faith, obedience
and the Lords will, miracles happen, however i will admit another interesting
thing, president monson tells a story about when he went to give a blessing to
a girl who was extremely sick, and this was when he was an apostle, so i think
he was worthy, she had all the faith in the world, but she didnt live after,
but president monson mentions that the miracle was that he was able to give her
that blessing, through her faith he was drawn by the spirit to visit her, the
miracle is listening and being prompted by the spirit, not necesarily
fulfilling our purpose and will. this is HIS work and HIS glory, we are simply
his instruments.
thats all for this week, love you all tons, be safe and CTR!
ELDER AUGER
we took a selfie on
the side of the highway next to the ocean, always a blast!!!
made me trunky
though, they even played american music inside........ ELDER SEARLE and ELDER
CARRILLO came with us, super awesome time
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