I'm so glad you had a good time at girls camp! That's
awesome. And I'm planning on Jake waking up early with me to do companion ship
study together in the mornings... he'll have to start preparing now!
And I would be stoked to be Jake's home teaching companion..
we'll reactivate the whole ward!!
Oh and of course mom... Being with God comes before
everything but being Mormon shouldn't make you lame... unfortunately a few
people take religion to an extreme and start bad stereotypes for all from our
religion. God wants us to be happy and love life but obviously
following his commandments as well.
Anyways this week has been pretty crazy, first off we had
a great training meeting with all of the zones here in Guayaquil and the
president talked a lot about our purpose as a missionary and also talked about
1 nephi 3:7 And it came to pass that I, Nephi, said unto my father: I will go and do the things which the Lord
hath commanded, for I know that the Lord giveth no commandments unto the children
of men, save he shall prepare a way for them that they may accomplish the thing
which he commandeth them.
I think we have all
heard this scipture a million times however our president explained that
verse 7 is great but really verse 15 is a lot better. "But behold I said unto
them that: As the Lord liveth,and as we live, we will not go down unto our
father in the wilderness until we have accomplished the thing which the Lord hath
commanded us.
In this verse it happened after their trial. He explained to us how it is easy to be excited to work or follow the comandments when everything is easy but then when it is hard or when we don't have success the first time is when it all really matters. The brothers of Nephi lost their faith and claimed that it was impossible but Nephi states, I wont go back until I've completed what God sent me to do!
It was super sweet.
Also this week we had a baptism named K. And wow his baptism was super spiritual and he was sooo excited to take that leap of faith.
Right before his baptism we found him sitting in a room
in the church meditating and we asked him what was wrong and he said nothing
just that he was thinking about all that would change, all of the old mistakes
and the new person that he wanted to become. After he was baptized he just
looked at us and said "gracias" It was I felt the spirit so strong,
and I know he could feel that same spirit testify to him of what he was doing.
Then on Sunday night we stopped a robbery haha A lady was
walking on the street and a kid was trying to yank her back pack away from her
but when he saw us he ran away, haha I didnt even realize it was a robbery
beforehand because no one was even screaming, but then the lady started to thank us
for coming just in time!
Oh and today me and my comp. went to Chilis, it was
amazing! I ate bbq chicken wings and a bacon burger. It was just like being in
the United states again.
I'm also super excited for this up coming week! We have a
few people that we want to help make the descion to get baptized. Please pray
for them all!
Love you guys hope you all have a great week oh and send
pics of whats going on!!!
But He Still Came to Church on Sunday!
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