Ixcola. Long and busy week and long email coming in(read the last 2 paragraphs if you don't want to read all of it). I can't remember if I said it or not but here in Santiago we share a ward with 2 other Elders and we have Lunch and dinners with members almost every day. We are always with them because of that and all our meetings they are with us so basically we are with them whenever we don’t have appointments. I am saying this though because we had transfers on Friday and everyone left and I am the only one to stay in Santiago. My comp Elder Grutz got transferred to the city, the very farthest possible place we could have gone. Elder Casady got transferred to the city as well. Lastly, Elder Marin got transferred to his house. Shout out to my guy, bro did it I’m almost there though, 7 months in the mish is starting to get there. I still feel just as lost as the new Kids who just got here.
We got Elder Siow, Elder Richardson, and my comp Elder Martinez. I’m pumped for this new group. Elder Siow is simply just a good dude. One of the biggest homies in the mish. Elder Richardson just loves the work and finishes his mission soon. Great guy. My comp Elder Martinez finishes his mission this transfer and is a legend in the mish. I keep getting super Lucky with my comps. He's from Mexico and I'm hoping my Spanish will take off this transfer because now I will only be speaking Spanish with him. We are all gonna focus on Tz’utujil this transfer too.
So what I want to talk about is the answers to my prayers that I have been getting. I have been asking what/who I need to focus on this transfer and what I need to do to lead an area that I don’t know very well(mine) and help lead the other area I know less about.
I have had 2 experiences in the first
2 days of the transfer where members have come up to me and asked for help
because they are struggling with the decisions they are making. They have shown
insane trust in us that I haven't really seen on my mission yet. I realized
this is what I need to focus on a little more. I kind of forget that members
need lessons too. That they need to hear these scriptures. They need to learn
about having faith, repenting, etc. One guy who got baptized not too long ago
let us know that he feels terrible. He feels like he is destroying his family.
He lost his parents and started drinking after his baptism. Since then he has
been inactive and feels distant from his family. I realized I have been a
member my whole life and not everything was perfect for me either. I had made
decisions that I'm not so proud of as do all of us. So that point I wanted to
make to him and to all of you reading is that the game doesn't end when we get
baptized, receive the priesthood, go to the temple for the first time, or go
through the temple and receive endowments, get married in the temple, etc.
Satan is going to try a lot harder after the covenants we make with our
heavenly father. Every step we take closer to God means he wants to try harder
and we have more to lose
D&C 31:5 “Therefore, thrust in
your sickle with all your soul, and your sins are forgiven you, and you shall
be laden with sheaves upon your back, for the laborer is worthy of his hire.
Wherefore, your family shall live”
DyC 31:15 “Por tanto, mete tu hoz con
toda tu alma, y tus pecados te son perdonados, y tus espaldas serán cargadas de
gavillas, porque el obrero es digno de su salario. Por consiguiente, tu familia
vivirá”
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