Well
guys it has been another week here in Ecuador and wow it was an interesting
one.
First
off, that's too bad about Brighton! That would have been amazing to have them
win the State Championships. But I guess Jake will just have to pull it off when he's a senior!
haha.
I'm
glad everyone is doing well :)
And
yes it is stressful to be zone leader but I truly am enjopying it and just
trying to give it my all while I have this opportunity.
So
anyways about this week. It was actually a really tough one. I felt somewhat
inspired after telling you to pray for me because I really needed those extra
prayers this week. It was sorta odd but after last Monday every single person we
were teaching just decided to not want to keep going to church or prepare for a
baptism. Completely random and all at the same moment. And we got left with
nobody to teach. And just so you know, being a missionary and being in the
street all day having to teach people is hard when you don't have anyone. So
we talked to everyone in the street, taught the
members and looked everywhere to find new people and for the first three days we
found no one... not a single interested person. And honestly, I was getting pretty
discouraged, however I prayed non- stop... probably like 30-40 prayers a day just
begging for help...but I learned something this week. God a lot of the time
doesn't just give us what we want or when we feel sad he doesn't automatically
make us be happy. He tests us. He wants to see how far we can go... he wants to see
us struggle a little bit and put our own effort in, instead of just using him
as a fallback. He did the same thing with his son; he didn't give him things
easily when Jesus asked for the "cup to be taken from him" God didn't do it! Because
it wasn't his will. Sometimes God has a bigger picture, and we don't see all of it.
So what we have to do is be patient, trust him, and try to do all we can by
ourselves. Then, through his love, and his grace we will be made strong. We will
recieve blessings and we will fulfil the wishes that he has. Like it explains in
Ether 12:6, sometimes we recieve our testimony after the trials and failure and
struggle, we just need to have faith :)
So
anyways last week was hard, we didn't have too much success but God blessed me
and he is helping me everyday. The missionaries we have here are changing,
they are working hard and theyre finding new people. So it's wonderful to see
that our efforts never are in vain. And to see that just maybe I am helping the
missionaries here to be better, and that hope just makes me wanna keep going :)
So
in conclusion I'm doing great, I love where I am and I love working here. I'm
excited to keep pushing forward and helping all the people that I can
here.
Love,
Elder Lignell We are holding up 2 fingers because it took our Investigator
2 years before she made the decision to be baptized :)
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