How is everyone doing this absolutely amazing week? It has honestly been a crazy one and I always start forgetting the details as Sunday and Monday role around, but I´ll fill y'all in on what I remember.
First off, it´s the last week of transfers, so that means a whole week of solving problems with missionaries leaving and all the missionaries that are coming. We will be hitting a new mission high for missionaries this next week with 204 missionaries in total. We are super excited to see how things change in the mission.
So, we started the week off with that, then throughout the week we snuck in times to drive up to the top of the hill to be able to work in our area for a few hours. Luckly, on Friday we were given a little bit of a break and got to do exchanges with our District Leader. For the first time in 3 transfers, I left the area to go do an exchange and I took advantage. We had a bunch of great lessons and were able to talk with a lot of people in the streets. A lot of rejection, but the rejection just helped us to recognize all of the miracles that we were having with the rest of our contacts. So, it was overall a huge success.
We ended the week strong, helping one of our friends Carmen Gloria come to church. She has also decided to be baptized in 2 weeks! She wanted it the soonest possible and so we were able to help her create goals and plans to be able to make the necessary changes in her life. I love to just see how much hope the gospel of Jesus Christ gives to people when they start to understand it.
Anyway, that was the week for you all and I wanted to end with a spiritual thought really quick.
in Matthew 18:4,
¨Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.¨
I´ve loved all the opportunities that God had given me in the mission to be humble. As we are humble, and really look to understand others, we start to gain a love for everyone even when they have wronged us in some way. In our manual, ¨Preach My Gospel,¨ it teaches us that humility is a sign of spiritual strength, and this scripture teaches us that we shall be the greatest in the kingdom of Heaven as we are humble like unto a child. I invite you all to do a self evaluation of how we can be humbler and love God before the world, and I promise you all that you will find more joy in your lives
Love you all, have a great week.
Elder Nelson
No comments:
Post a Comment