GRACE
Hey what uppp. Super long week not gonna lie. We still had a good week but I am very tired haha. So I still feel like I just got here and my comp is still pretty new to the mission so there is a lot of running around with our heads cut off it seems like. My comp is still alwaysss getting lost and I still am getting used to the area so it's funny. We'd prolly look so dumb if other missionaries could see us. We found 11 new people this week who in all honesty have potential.
We have been working really hard with this 14 year old kid named Christopher and he's a goat. He has friends who are converts and they bring him to everything. They are on the church soccer team together, go to seminary together, church too, and he really wants to get baptized. It is such a blessing for us to have the opportunity to teach him the lessons and grow in knowledge of the gospel. We are hoping that he will be baptized this Saturday!! We gave him the lesson on the restoration and he loved it but he got sad at the end because he didn’t feel like he had enough knowledge or a strong enough testimony to be baptized. We explained to him that those feelings are very normal and he needs to have faith in himself. I asked to give him a blessing and it went really well. Pray for Christopher please!!!
This story about Christopher makes me think about a BYU speech by Brad Wilcox. I have recently had the opportunity to listen to this talk again and share it with a very important person in my life. The topic is that Christ's grace is sufficient. What he means by that is that Christ paid for ALL of our sins, temptations, sicknesses, disabilities, afflictions, etc. Sometimes we feel that we aren't enough. Sometimes we do things that we aren't very proud of. Sometimes we feel like we can't live up to the standards of the gospel and it is just too hard. However, what Brad Wilcox explains that Christ will never give up on us. He will be begging for us to return to Him. He won't be saying ah sorry dude, you don't fit the criteria for the Celestial Kingdom, bummer. No. He will be begging us to have faith in Him, repent, and use His atonement and return to him. I always thought I'd be the one begging God for the Celestial Kingdom but in this talk Brad Wilcox explains that God and Jesus will be begging us to return and live with them in the Celestial Kingdom.
At times I have felt insanely lost and dumb before the mission, in the mission, and probably after the mission. But what I wanted to explain to this very important person in my life and to you all, is that we are enough. We sin and we disappoint ourselves. All of us have experienced it. But I know that we are saved. I know that we will be forgiven if we WANT to be forgiven. We are known and we are loved. We just need to show our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ that we are thankful for them and that we want to be with them. I love you all so much and hope that we can all understand that Jesus's grace is sufficient!
Link to “His grace is sufficient”:
https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/brad-wilcox/his-grace-is-sufficient/
Scripture of the Week:
Titus 2:11 “For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men”
Tito 2:11 “Porque la gracia de Dios que trae salvación a todos los hombres se ha manifestado”
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