This week we worked a lot with members and I started taking charge of our part in the correlacion meetings and ward council meetings instead of my companion. Transfers are in 3 weeks and I have to be able to do everything on my own by then! 😌 I have been learning so much and i'm so grateful to have these years to work for the lord. I know there is importance in setting goals for improving ourselves in every way we can - spiritually, physically, socially and intellectually - and its cool to see what the church has done to help the youth do this with the help of their families. I know that in our families we can work with and strengthen each other to the point where no challenge will be too hard. I love Jeffrey R Holland's talks and I like to think of this quote of his in the context of families - the parenthesis are me - :
“If you work hard and prepare earnestly (with your families), it will be very difficult for you to
give in or give up or wear down. If you labor with faith in God (and in your families) and in
yourself and in your future , you will have built upon a rock. Then, when the winds blow
and the rains come—as surely they will—you shall not fall”
(Elder Jeffrey R. Holland).
One of my goals is to take more pictures because I haven't taken one in 3 weeks until this afternoon when we went to eat 'chino' :
The second picture is one of Manfred, a convert of six months. (He is probably my best friend here besides my companion.) I met him my first day in the field when I helped him give his fist priesthood blessing and that was so incredible. He offered to help me with spanish at any time and he is the only Costa Rican person I know that speaks english really well. I have a special connection with him and right now he's doing everything he can to earn the money to be able to go on a mission like us. He is a great example and I wish I could have the fearless faith and enthusiasm of that guy. (Oh also it was him that gave me his camera to take those wedding photos that one time.)
This p-day we have lots of plans (and as a result, less time typing and calling) so I hope this paragraph of an email helped someone!
Have a good week guys!
WEEK 16:
Hi This was the BEST WEEKEND EVER!!! As you all know, we had General Conference which for us missionaries is even better than Christmas! That's cuz it's TWO days long and we get to spend them with our mission family (the district:)! Every talk is like a present that takes 15ish minutes to open and inside is a ton of tools that can help the people we're teaching!
This conference was the most powerful I have ever heard in my life and it was something very special to be able to hear it in Spanish. It was better because of the fact that I was listening to things that apply to our investigators. A mini miracle was that there was something in every talk that applied to someone we are teaching! I was sad that nobody (of those we invited) could attend, but we have plans to use things we learned from conference in our lessons. Especially with Keilo. He has been doing very good with his little Book of Mormon homeworks that we give him, but we are going to change things up and have him listen to conference talks that apply to things he has been struggling with.
We have many plans for this week and with the spirit that the conference has brought, we have a renewed desire to become more holy and work harder!
Do you guys remember who Manfred is? He's the recent convert (and my best friend) who is doing everything he can to be able to serve a mission. Right now he is recovering from a motorcycle accident so I think he could use a few prayers from you guys. I can already tell that he's going to be a fantastic missionary because he has already started his missionarywork in his own family. In fact a few weeks ago he baptized his own mom after she recieved the lessons from the Sister missionaries! The last two weeks we have been working with his cousin, Alen who really likes everything about the church, and on friday something really awesome happened! We traveled to Alen's house to give him a lesson and his whole family was there! At first I was a little nervous because Ive never taught in front of so many people (there were 8 or 9 adults i think) but it was definitely the best lesson we've ever had: every single person was super interested, there were no distractions, and they asked tons of questions! They even offered us food and asked when we were coming back! I hope all of Manfred's family are members before he leaves on his mission, and we're going to work our hardest with him to make that happen! And now that we have a lot of new conference talks we can use (and new phones to show them on) it'll be that much easier!!! (Speaking of the new smartphones, they're actually just less dumb phones because all they can do is talk text and open gospel library... not even the camera 😢)
Anyways I hope you all had a very uplifting weekend like we did. I have a testimony of the prophet President Nelson and I know that we are going in the right direction when we follow his counsel because it comes straight from the Lord. The church is under His direction so let's follow the the prophet!
Have a great week!
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