Hola todos! How are you all doing? Can you believe that it
is getting closer and closer to Christmas? I can't! Especially since it is
getting hotter and hotter! Here they are selling fireworks now which just makes it feel
like the 4th of July :) . I hope that as we are getting closer to Christmas,
when things start to get more hectic and it seems like we can't do everything
we want, we can remember the thing that is the most important, Jesus Christ. He
is the center of everything we do and are, and we need to rely more wholly upon
Him if we are going to progress and have greater joy in our lives. I can
testify that when we work to give our all to focus on Him and put the things
that are important to Him first in our lives we will see blessings and changes
that we were not expecting to receive but that are so much better than we hoped
for.
This week I had opportunities to choose between doing one
thing which could be good, or doing something which has the prospect of being
better. On Wednesday this week, we were thinking of when we were going to do
Family History, and we realized that it was going to be very difficult to do it
another day in the week. We had been counseled by our mission president to give
2 hours of time to work on Family History and we decided that we were going to
put our faith in the Lord and do what we had been asked to do. Later that night
we were trying to think of who we ought to visit, and we didn't have much time
so we needed to choose right. We decided to visit a lady we had contacted a few
days ago and we were able to have a lesson with her! I believe that this
blessing came because we worked to put our faith in the Lord and do what we had
been asked before trying to do what we thought was best.
On Thursday I had the opportunity to receive my ID for my
citizenship in Uruguay. As we were found waiting in a different area for other
missionaries, we decided to go and start contacting. We were able to find a few
people who were interested and gave this information to the Elders in their
area. Later that day we had the opportunity to go help the Sisters in their
area in what is called a "Choque de Fuerza," which basically is where
other missionaries go into a different area to help find new people to teach.
We were trying to decide if it was worth it to go and help for just a little
bit of time or if we ought to just work in our area, and again we decided to
trust the Lord and go and help them out.
Then on Saturday, we received a call from other Sisters who
told us that they were going to have a baptism, but were afraid that they would
not have enough priesthood holders there to support in the ordinance. We
already had plans in our area, but as we thought about it we decided it was
really important that we go and help the Sisters. We did miniature divisions
with our Zone Leaders so they could go to some lessons in their area, and we
could get some done in ours. I went with Elder Jensen to be able to go and help
with the baptism and it was a wonderful experience. He conducted the meeting and although I didn't need to help out, it was important that we went so he
could.
After everything that happened this week we had the
opportunidades to focus on the Savior and put our trust in Him and we saw great
blessings. On Sunday we had the most people come to church that I have seen yet
in my mission. We have had people who truly want to progress and improve and I
am amazed by the results that have come from simple actions. I promise that
each one of you can see these same results as you work to put Christ at the
center of your lives. It can be hard at times to be able to put everything else
aside, but the truth is when we trust in Him the good that comes is so much
more than otherwise.
Scripture of the week:
El Evangelio de Jesucristo brinda la
fortaleza y la perspectiva eterna para hacer frente, con buen ánimo, a lo que
venga. President Dunford
~Elder McDonald
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