Hola Todos! ¿Cómo están? Espero que ustedes pueden sentir el
amor de Dios y ver Sus bendiciones en su vida! (Hello all! How are you? I hope that you can feel the love of God and see his blessings in your life) I am so grateful to each one of you
and want you to know that I love you so much! Thank you for your prayers and
love, and I am so grateful that we can all be on this journey of learning and
progressing together. Never forget how amazing you are, and know that God loves
you so very much!
This week was really good! I can't believe how quickly the
time flies, but I am learning so very much, and have seen so many blessings
each day! This week there have been some difficult moments, just like it is for
our entire lives, but I have also learned some valuable lessons as well. At
times we can feel like things just aren't going our way, or that we are just
having a bad day, but the truth is we can choose to change it around. One day
this week Elder Letelier and I were having a hard time getting along. It just
started out as a rough day, and after one particular lesson where we weren't
quite united in teaching we were walking down the road and I was just feeling
upset and like the rest of the day was not going to be any better. But then I had
the thought "Well, what can you do to change it?" I started to talk
to him about his mission and ask him questions, and we started to play a game
where we tried to kick a pebble between the other's feet as we walked and soon
the feelings between us changed. It could've very easily been a bad rest of the
day if we had not changed what we were doing, but because we chose to act our
relationship was strengthened. There are going to be rough moments in life, and
we can choose to act to change them or to just feel sorry that we are
struggling. One gives an outcome of hope and improvement and the other only
breaks us down further.
In our area we have a hard time getting people to meet with
us and open their doors. On the other side we seem to find lots of inactive
members. At first I was really discouraged by this, and thought that we just
wouldn't be able to help very many people here, but then Elder Letelier said
that we are likely finding so many inactive members for a reason. Again, I
could choose to be discouraged or try to change how to act and move forward. We
are making more goals and trying to find new ways to help the people here, and
I have faith that when we choose to act Heavenly Father will magnify our
efforts and make it so we can do more than we could before. But its up to us if
we will choose to change, and choose to try. All we have to do is try to do our
best and Heavenly Father will take care of the rest. I promise this is true and
that you can learn this for yourselves as you test it out in your life. There
is power in acting in faith, and I know you will receive great blessings as you
do so!
Love, Elder McDonald
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