Fantastic week. Every single night I laid in bed thinking about the day, what great things happened, what miracles we witnessed. And I could not but smile and say to myself. We did good today. Never have I had so many lessons in a week. We had more or less 7 a day, ending with a 43 lesson week. The attendance in church jumped from 123 to 143. We had a baptism this week, funny story about that. Elder Call is the man. He has 6 months in the mission, comes from a super campo area, he told me that the first day he worked here, he entered more houses that he had in his whole mission! We found 6 new houses of people to teach, three new houses of less actives, and got all of our converts in our sector to come to church. I thought back last night about how incredibly tired I was, and I remember thinking, I guess I just won´t have time to rest for a while...
Well I think I will share the spiritual before the funny right. I wish to talk about something that happened in Sunday. Well this past week, almost all of our youth were at PFJ, or EFY, and in so they all gave their testimony after the bread and water. It was a sight to see, youth that I had visited that showed no desire in the church, ro to serve missions, or to even share with us during lessons, were up front crying to the congregation. As many know, the theme: Embark in the Service of God, helps the youth to understand the importance of serving a mission. Their testomonies reminded me of what great experiences I felt through efy, and ignited the flame to continue my service in the Lord. Sometimes I feel that we forget how blessed we are to serve the Lord.
I was reading some Doctrine and Covenants, and came across a scipture that touched me quite a bit. DyC 15:6, and then again repeated in 16:6.
6 And now, behold, I say unto you, that the thing which will be of the most worth unto you will be to declare repentance unto this people, that you may bring souls unto me, that you may rest with them in the kingdom of my Father. Amen.
It is such a blessing that I have in my own live, one that took me a real long time to consider a blessing, and not a commandment. Something that the President told me in interveiws that really is a big concern about our mission. And that is the obedience. Many missionaries are not being as obedient as we should. And so he shared a scripture with me about the Obedience. The jist was that we first of all, must change ourselves before God will empower us with the authority to goven the church. And then shared a quote I really enjoyed:
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