It´s hard to believe, but I´ve written 100 of these things already... They´re not the best letters sometimes but thanks to those of you who actually read these things haha.
This week was a good one! I had my last interview with my mission president and my last zone conference in the mission. I had both on the same day and they both went really well! I´m going to be finishing the same day as my mission president so the whole mission is about to have a ton of changes, but I won't be here to see them. We just found out that they changed the mission president who was going to come to replace our current mission president. Another Hondureño was going to come, but they just informed us that it will be a Brazileño now. It´s weird to think that the mission will have a new mission president, but I´m excited for the missionaries that will stay and see how the mission changes.
Well, we were able to find a lot of great people this week, the only problem is that none of them came to church this Sunday haha. The Lord has been testing my faith and patience all throughout my mission, but it´s been particularly difficult these last few weeks. However, we still had 4 investigators come to church that were pure miracles! We had one investigator come (who doesn't want to get baptized, even though all of her kids already have been baptized) and she brought a friend that does want to get baptized! So that was a miracle! And then we visit this place every Sunday called Hogar Crea (a rehabilitation center for people with addictions) that is super awesome and full of men that want to change their lives. We had a recent convert come with 2 other residents from the home and one of them is particularly awesome. We went to visit them after church and he wants to get baptized as soon as humanly possible. He´s only 19 years old and entered himself into the center just about 10 days ago, but has never been baptized before and wants to be really badly. The only problem is that they can only go to church every other Sunday and people can only get baptized and confirmed after their 3rd attendance at church. So I won't be there for the baptism sadly but I know without a doubt he´ll get baptized.
Something that really stood out to me and my companion this week was something that my best friends Elder Millward and Elder Larson told us last Monday. We were talking about faith and we talked about the scripture that says, "faith without works is dead". But then the part that really stood out to me was when they said, "works without faith is deader". I really liked that and it helped me out a lot this last week as we were working. It´s really important to have works to demonstrate our faith to the Lord, but if we don't have faith in the works we´re doing, we can't expect to see much success in the things we´re doing. For example, the Lord wants us to be obedient to His commandments, but if we don't truly believe that being obedient will help us return to Him, why are we going to follow the commandments then? Or if the Lord wants me to find people to help, but I don't believe that I can find those people, why am I working so hard to find them? We need to have works but we also need to have faith in those works or nothing will happen.
I hope everyone has a great week this week!
Elder Smith
Pics: Walking in the jungle again, another shot from the jungle, a member´s car ran out of gas, yesterday at church
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