I hope everyone had a fantastic week last week and that you could all watch and hear the words of the apostles and prophet in General Conference!
I´ll talk about that at the end because first let´s talk about transfers! After 6 months (1 year in Heredia) I´m finally leaving. And I´m going to... GUANACASTE! I´m finally going to get to know "the Costa Rica part of Costa Rica" haha. My new ward is called La Victoria and I will continue as zone leader of La Zona Liberia! I´m super excited and it should be awesome. I´ve heard about Guanacaste my entire mission but have never personally been there. All I´ve heard is that it´s HOT, dry, and that there are monkeys all over the place. Should be interesting haha. I´m sad to leave my beloved Heredia behind but I´m excited to see what these last 12 weeks have in store for me in Guanacaste. My new companion is Elder Waite from Colorado and he has about 18 months in the mission. He started his mission in Flores so it´ll be fun to get to know each other better and work our hardest to bring about the Lord´s work!
Well this week was a good one, but the highlight obviously has to be General Conference. This was my last one here in the mission and one of my favorites as well. President Nelson is just such a spiritual giant and I loved hearing the many messages that he had to share with us. It was a real big testimony builder to me that he truly is the prophet of the Lord here on the Earth. He just had a different light about him that I hadn't seen quite as strongly until now. I loved all of the messages that the other leaders and apostles of the church shared, but one of my favorites was from President Nelson on Sunday. I don't have my notes with me right now so I can't remember very many details, but it really impacted me when he talked about personal revelation. Personal revelation is something really simple but something I feel a lot of us overlook or don't appreciate as much as we should. I know that has been the case for me the majority of my life. Personal revelation is the right and ability that we have to talk to the Lord and RECEIVE answers from Him. It´s like the video I attached in my email last week, "If any of you lack wisdom, Ask of God"! The Lord wants to communicate with us, but it takes a sincere effort from our part. We all have questions, doubts, worries. How can we overcome or find answers to these questions, doubts, worries? Study it out and ask the Lord for help and guidance and He PROMISES that He will answer us. The Lord wants to talk to us a lot more than we want to talk to Him. I invite you all to ponder about something you could ask the Lord this week and then do all that you can to look for this personal revelation that the Prophet invited us to receive! That is the Lord´s invitation through his chosen prophet!
I hope everyone has a great week this week!
Elder Smith
P.s. Didn't take many pics this week I guess :/
Pics: saying goodbye to a few members last night
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