Silence Broken! Sorry for the delayed response on this one.
Wow this week has been a crazy one that's for sure. From now until the rest of my mission, there will be weeks where I don't write home on Mondays because there are always things that come up and we have to change our p day a lot, but I will do my best to try and get something home to keep everyone updated.
Things are going very well here in Barrio 8. I feel like I have just come right home. The members and I have a really good relationship from the 6 months that I was here before. We look forward to seeing some miracles as we can work with them to find, teach, and baptize.
Im overall super super tired at this point. Not just because of the time I have on the mission but because of how much work we are doing. Today was supposed to be p day but that one isn't going to happen due to a companion exchange that is going to last the rest of this week! But we have also done a lot of super amazing things too recently! This week we got to go back to the Canary Islands for Zone conference and I was able to work in vecindario, my old area! Got to see a lot of the old members but the best highlight was seeing Jorge. Jorge is an older guy who moved to Spain from Cuba that we were able to teach and baptize when I first got here! He's been very ill and it was so good to see him again because it not only lifted his spirits a lot but mine as well! I also got to see my old buddy Elder Bennett at Zone conference in the islands just before he goes home which was awesome too!
WE had a really cool experience at Zone conference. As part of mine and my companions part we were going to teach the restoration in 4 minutes. The moment we got up to teach the restoration, I could feel the spirit really strong and i just felt a confirmation that what I was teaching was true through the promptings of the spirit that came to me in that moment. I didn't know until after but one of the people in one of the married couples said that they loved our part and asked us if we noticed what happened with the air conditioning. We didn't notice in the moment but the air shut off right as we went into the restoration, giving us complete silence as we taught. We don't know why the air shut off right in that moment, but we were very grateful for the effect it had on helping us to feel the spirit though in that moment.
Im discovering a lot of my weaknesses and imperfections every day. Especially because I feel like I'm kinda teaching alongside Alma and Amulek over here with the way my companions teach with power and authority, and I just see myself as average compared to them, but I'm going to continue to give it all that I've got here and try to be not what I think I need to be, but what the Lord needs me to be right now.
Im very grateful for the way that the mission has helped me to grow stronger in the gospel and at the same time as a person! This one is hard for me, but I think it's a secret to happiness. We've gotta have hope in ourselves and push forward and not beat ourselves up if we only move a little each day. That's all I can do, but a mission has taught me that my baby steps matter to God, so I need to keep taking them.
HAVE a good one!
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