Hi,
So due to the amount of time it took my companions and I to make
pancakes and to the lighting tournament we are trying to start with
the people in our ward today, this email will likely be short.
Top moment of this week as far as cultural things is that the
Ecuatorians made us some delicious callos this week. Callos is a plate
of rice, potatoes, delicious salsa, and pieces of cow stomach. It
sounds weird, but if you haven't tried it, you haven't lived. Man it
was pretty dang good.
This week we had a really cool experience. We were just having a
normal morning trying to talk to as many people as we could in the
streets and looking for any opportunity to help others when we walked
up to this Nigerian pacing back and forth. As we walked up to him, we
asked him what he was doing. He told us he was just thinking and
waiting for someone. Well, we began to talk to him in English about
the gospel. As the conversation went on, he opened up. He told us
that he was pacing back and forth because he was looking for
inspiration from God to know what to do in his life. He told us he
wasn't actually waiting for anyone, just inspiration. All three of us
realized at that moment what was really going on here. It was no
coincidence that the Lord had put us there at that time and sent us to
him when he did. Truly, the Lord had answered this mans prayer
through a miracle.
So the title is the way it is because his name is Joshua, and my
companion has been singing the song with that line in it over and over
again. This example is something that happens to us a lot in
missionary work. Is Joshua going to get baptized? I don't know, but
did the Lord work a miracle in all of our lives that day? No doubt in
my mind. Although to some it may seem small, it is a miracle.
We live in a hard world. Here in Spain, the words of a popular black
eyed peas song comes to our mind often: "What's wrong with the world
mama, people acting like they ain't got no mama..... Father Father
Father help us, send some guidance from above, cause people got me
questioning, WHERE IS THE LOVE."
People don't believe in God as much anymore because the Lord isn't
parting the Red Sea very often... They don't believe in a God of
miracles yet the Book of Mormon tells us otherwise.
"19 And if there were miracles wrought then, why has God ceased to be
a God of miracles and yet be an unchangeable Being? And behold, I say
unto you he changeth not; if so he would cease to be God; and he
ceaseth not to be God, and is a God of miracles.
20 And the reason why he ceaseth to do miracles among the children of
men is because that they dwindle in unbelief, and depart from the
right way, and know not the God in whom they should trust.
21 Behold, I say unto you that whoso believeth in Christ, doubting
nothing, whatsoever he shall ask the Father in the name of Christ it
shall be granted him; and this promise is unto all, even unto the ends
of the earth.
25 And whosoever shall believe in my name, doubting nothing, unto him
will I confirm all my words, even unto the ends of the earth."
Mormon 9
The Lord has not ceased in any way. His words will never cease, and
neither will he cease to be a God of miracles. The only thing that
changes is us. We have less faith in him sometimes, and sometimes we
just aren't looking around enough to see the little miracles he does
for us in our lives.
I testify with all my heart that God works miracles in each and every
one of our lives each and every day. I also testify that the more we
bring ourselves closer to the Lord, the closer he will bring himself
to us. KEEP GOING MY FRIENDS, KEEP PRESSING FORWARD, AND MAY GOD
BRING TO PASS MIRACLES IN EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOUR LIVES THIS WEEK.
In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen
Elder Baron
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