Hola familia!!!!
well one week more one week less. it kinda sucks when you know that
your transfer is coming because you honestly loose a little bit of your
desires. i used to dread transfers because they gave you so little time
to say goodbye to people, who in such a short time, have come to know
and love . . . but now it makes sense.
i am glad that the trek went well, that you were able to feel the
spirit this week because despite of my trials i too felt the spirit this
week. i prayed every night and morning that you were enjoying the trek
and that you weren't too tired to get up the next day and start over
again. and i know now that my prayers were answered.
i am still having a few troubles with my companion. but we are
trying to just go with the flow our last week together and i hope to put
the good old boy scout saying to use. "leave it better than when you
found it." and i realized that is how it should be with our lives in
general. i look at the people i have known in my mission and i ask. . .
was i a influence for good in their lives? did i help them grow closer
to Christ? and unfortunately the answer hasn't always been yes. i think
back to the first of my mission, inexperienced, immature, uncaring and i
wish i could go back to Lampa de Oro and try again. there were so many
people there who were ready to hear the gospel but we didn't really take
the time to help them out. they closed the area and i have no idea what
those people are doing with their lives now. i just hope that in some
way they remember the simple testimony of a 19 year old kid who almost
couldn't bare it with the language difference.
but i now see the progress i have made as a missionary and as a
person and i hope and pray that my new area will be just as full of
spiritually prepared people as there are here. i have said it before but
i will say it a thousand times i am so glad to be a missionary. i can
honestly say that the stories of these people never repeat. their lives
are always different and their needs will always differ. but one thing
never EVER changes and that is the solution. . . the gospel. i invite
all my family and friends, be you week in the gospel or week in the
knees, to put this challenge to the test. I KNOW THAT THIS GOSPEL IS THE
THING THAT WE ARE SOMETIMES MISSING IN OUR LIVES!!! i think about the
general conference talk this last April. about being active in the
church, and less active in the gospel. . . are we willing to follow in
the footsteps of those who have gone before. . . those who gave their
lives before denying the only pure and true thing that exists in this
world . . . those who suffered to follow a prophet thousands of miles to
reach Zion. . . or him that suffered, bled, and died in order to save
us of the one thing that holds us back in life, ourselves. if you don't
believe or are unwilling to follow i promise you that your life is
incomplete. i can promise you that the pleasures of this life have no
meaning in the eternities and that the happiness that only god can offer
is within your reach you just have to be willing to extend your hand
and take his.
i love you all i miss you all but remember i am always working as hard as i can.
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