Hello everyone!
I hope everyone had a great week this last week! This week was a good one, but as always in the mission and in our lives, there's ups and downs. The good thing though is that there's always more ups than downs!
Sundays are always good, and this one was no different. Although we didn't have too many
investigators at church this week, we were able to meet and get to know 2 less active/inactive
families that we had never met before! We found them through the list of members that supposedly live in Naranjo. The attendance has been around 40 people on average every Sunday, but according to the list, there's like 350 members here in Naranjo... I knew there had to be at least one person or family out of this large group of members not attending that had the potential of coming back to church. And that was proved right yesterday. I basically just called every person that I didn't already know that had a phone number by their name, because directions here are basically useless. Out of the people I could actually get ahold of, only 2 agreed to have us come visit them. Although we will start to work with both of them, one family especially stuck out to me. It's a family of 6 and they're super awesome. They stopped going to church like 5 years ago, but now seem totally ready to come back and want one of their nephews, who barely just started living there a few days prior, to get baptized!
The best part of the week by far though was on Friday. We had our zone conference and then went on exchanges with the zone leaders. I went on exchanges with Elder Larson from California who has one more transfer in the mission than I do and it was super good! He's a great guy and I learned a lot from him even though we were only companions for a day.
In the zone conference we talked a lot about receiving revelation from God and following the
impressions of the Holy Ghost. That's something I still really struggle with so it helped me a lot. Many times we have trials and difficulties in our lives and we just don't know what to do. But have we asked God for help? Have we asked Him what He thinks? Have we tried to follow the promptings of the Spirit? Or do we let our pride get in the way and let ourselves think we know better and can get by without His help? God loves us and wants to hear from us, but more importantly, He wants us to hear Him. If you really think about it, He actually wants to talk to us a lot more than we want to talk to Him. But when we pray and ask for His guidance, are we really taking the time to listen? Prayer is a two-way conversation. It takes a sincere effort of asking, studying the scriptures, being worthy, and having faith. It takes effort on our part, but I know He is always willing and wants to speak with us. "Ask and ye shall receive, knock and it shall be opened unto you."
Love,I hope everyone had a great week this last week! This week was a good one, but as always in the mission and in our lives, there's ups and downs. The good thing though is that there's always more ups than downs!
Sundays are always good, and this one was no different. Although we didn't have too many
investigators at church this week, we were able to meet and get to know 2 less active/inactive
families that we had never met before! We found them through the list of members that supposedly live in Naranjo. The attendance has been around 40 people on average every Sunday, but according to the list, there's like 350 members here in Naranjo... I knew there had to be at least one person or family out of this large group of members not attending that had the potential of coming back to church. And that was proved right yesterday. I basically just called every person that I didn't already know that had a phone number by their name, because directions here are basically useless. Out of the people I could actually get ahold of, only 2 agreed to have us come visit them. Although we will start to work with both of them, one family especially stuck out to me. It's a family of 6 and they're super awesome. They stopped going to church like 5 years ago, but now seem totally ready to come back and want one of their nephews, who barely just started living there a few days prior, to get baptized!
The best part of the week by far though was on Friday. We had our zone conference and then went on exchanges with the zone leaders. I went on exchanges with Elder Larson from California who has one more transfer in the mission than I do and it was super good! He's a great guy and I learned a lot from him even though we were only companions for a day.
In the zone conference we talked a lot about receiving revelation from God and following the
impressions of the Holy Ghost. That's something I still really struggle with so it helped me a lot. Many times we have trials and difficulties in our lives and we just don't know what to do. But have we asked God for help? Have we asked Him what He thinks? Have we tried to follow the promptings of the Spirit? Or do we let our pride get in the way and let ourselves think we know better and can get by without His help? God loves us and wants to hear from us, but more importantly, He wants us to hear Him. If you really think about it, He actually wants to talk to us a lot more than we want to talk to Him. But when we pray and ask for His guidance, are we really taking the time to listen? Prayer is a two-way conversation. It takes a sincere effort of asking, studying the scriptures, being worthy, and having faith. It takes effort on our part, but I know He is always willing and wants to speak with us. "Ask and ye shall receive, knock and it shall be opened unto you."
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