I
just wanting to start this email out by saying CONGRATULATIONS to Arrie
and Ian on the big weeding day!!! It´s sad that I couldn´t be there but
I was rocking the tie out here in Brazil and putting in the lords work.
I wanted to start off the email from a part of my boy mikes email. Mike wrote
it
was interesting, every P-day morning in our house we listen to some
conference talks. This morning we were listening to a talk by Elder
Holland way back from 1989. He talked about success and envy. It was
interesting. With the Elders in my house we had an interesting talk
about that specific talk by Elder Holland. We talked about our Mission,
and Missionary Work in general. As Missionaries we are always trying to
do our best, we are always trying to do the right thing, to always
follow the commandments, always help others, and spread this happy
message. We are all trying, but all of us each aren't having the success
we might desire. So sometimes it is easy as a missionary when you are
going through a tough situation with little success and you look to your
right and left and see missionaries with baptismal dates and success,
and just think to yourself... why! Why am I not having the Success!? I
am not doing anything wrong... I am trying my best... but just the
success isn't there. It is sometimes tough. But, Elder Holland just told
us to not worry about others happiness and just to be happy for them!
That God doesn't look at our individual successes and compare us. SO he
told us not to compare ourselves. That just be happy for others and what
they do, and just try your best with the blessings that God has given
you. All we have to do to be good in the sight of God, is to try our
best to fulfill our individual callings, keep His commandments and rely
on Him IF and WHEN we fail. All we have to do is Press Forward, and
Try!! `
I wanted to
start off the email with this because man is it true, Last transfer was
one of the hardest transfers on my mission and in this email, started to
train for the first time on the mission and nothing seemed to be
working, we spent days and weeks knocking on doors and talking to people
in the street, we tried everything but didn´t seem to have any
succuess. So of course when President Cruz waned me and Elder Rofino
here for this transfer I was a little nervos on what i was to do, i felt
that we have done everything, we just have one little area with just 4
streets what we havent tried, how is this going to work out for 6 weeks.
But man was this a week of mircules for us.
We
spent the week doing what we normally do, visiting the people that we
teach and seeing how they are doing, helping them learn about the gospel
and the love God has for his Children, and when things didn´t work out
we went knocking on some doors. The blessing didn´t come on the first
doors we knocked but quite the opposite , the blessing started coming
when we were ending the streets and felt that we couldn´t do anymore, we
found the people that needed the goseple in their life, and the love
the Savior has for us.
One of the greastest
lessons I have learned here on the mission is how much our God loves us,
he loves us enough to give us hard time and help us learn, and during
these times we can always find comfort in our Savior Jesus Christ, he
knows how we feel and will always help us, if we just search for him and
keep trying he will make up the difference in our life.
I
love my life as a missionary, not just because it´s a easy life, it´s
quite the opposite infact, i love it because of what we get to do, God
trust us youth to preach a perfect Goseple and help others live with
their familys for eterenity. What greater blessing and oportunity can we
have then to help soemone else out in their life, and to feel of the
Saviors love.
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