Wednesday, April 30, 2025
Week 30 (No email)
Tuesday, April 22, 2025
Week 29: Jesús No Estaba AllÃ
Monday, April 21, 2025 10:40pm
Happy Easter!! We knocked a lot of doors this week because we stopped teaching a lot of people who weren't progressing.
A lot has changed since the last week, haha. We completely lost contact with our friend that we were most sure about getting baptized. We think he got a second job so now he's almost never home. He hasn't seen our text messages either...
On the other hand, someone we used to teach who told us they wanted to keep their old religious beliefs showed up to church with his wife... we gonna let the ward figure that out.
We started teaching 2 different people this week both named Jesús! Kinda odd it happened during holy week. Neither came to church, though. The first one probably was just tired and slept through noon church, but the other had an urgent surprise thing to take care of at work. Dunno if Jesús#1 still is interested, but Jesús#2 wants to keep meeting with us, wanted us to come back to meet his wife, and promised us to come to church next week.
MY BIKE IS TRYING TO RETIRE EARLY. The spikes on the gear are wearing down and no longer very good at moving the chain. I can still use it, but biking uphill is impossible. I hope I can fix it, or the mission will be willing to lend me a new one and I won't have to buy one.
I haven't thought about it in a minute, but I feel a lot more comfortable teaching, contacting, and interacting in Spanish! With the added confidence that our friends will understand the question I ask, and that I'll understand their answer, it's so much easier to have lessons led by the spirit; those kind of lessons make me feel very cool.
I really enjoyed the focus I was able to put into the Easter story this week; I was able to find and learn a lot more as I studied the stories paying attention to how I might feel if I was there, or if I was in Jesus' place, or what I can learn about the nature and attributes of our Savior.
Jesus Christ displays an amazing love and selflessness leading up to the last hours of His mortal ministry. For His whole life, He not only taught with His words, but also His actions how we should be.
Although He was about to pass through the most difficult things that would ever happen to anyone, He didn't spend His time worrying about Himself, or trying to enjoy His time left on earth. Rather, He loved, served, washed some feet, healed, and comforted, followed by suffering for the sins and, additionally, pains, temptations, worries, sorrows, and all negative expiriences of everyone who will ever live.
And in His very last moments of suffering on the cross, being tortured and killed by the very same souls He had suffered to save, He pleaded with the Father in Luke 23:34, "Forgive them; for they know not what they do."
He is the purest most abundant source of love that can exist. We cannot comprehend just how much He really does love each of us individually. And He wants you to love like Him.
"A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another."
I testify that there is no better way to be a disciple of Jesus Christ than to sincerely love all men. We as His disciples are responsable to help others feel His love, because they may not be receptive to it on their own. But by our loving actions, people can become acquainted with their Savior and numbered as a sheep of His fold.
Love one another!!!
Monday, April 21, 2025
Week 28: Juggling
Monday, April 21, 2025 8:13pm
Hey, it was another good, not so good, and crazy week.
Good news is a 70 year old man wanted to massage my ankle and now it feels a lot better. Bad news is my bike decided it doesn't much like me anymore and wants to hurt me.
One of our friends we have been teaching for about a week and a half is awesome! We taught him a lesson a little more focused on repentance and how to repent. We knelt down with him so he could say a prayer to ask God for forgiveness, and he also asked God to allow him to be baptized.🔥🔥🔥
After that, he said he felt really peaceful. He hasn't been to church yet because he just got a job after 3 months and he works on Sunday, but he's trying to change his schedule. He has super strong desires to follow Christ!
The family we found last week had been taught before by some sisters and they were fairly curious. We had one visit with them, and we set up a second one in the church to give them a tour of the building.
We had to reschedule it once, but we definitely confirmed when they would be available. The day and the hour arrived and the never showed up. We don't know what happened because they haven't responded to our calls or texts.
On Friday, we were doing some finding, just knocking some apartment doors and the such when a lady who was born in Mexico but speaks mostly English told us she had some questions and invited us in.
She asked about Joseph Smith and The Mormon Bible. We got to tell her we in fact do not worship or pray to Joseph Smith. We tried to teach her the restoration of the gospel, but she felt the need to tell us her life story about how wicked she was in her youth and how she found Jesus.
She seemed to like the idea of God's spirit accompanying her throughout her day, but we had already been there an hour and a half, it was late, and I wasn't sure if she'd let me speak long enough to explain the Gift of the Holy Ghost. So we invited her to church, and, in return, she invited us to hers. Well, we're kind of not allowed to go to other churches in our mission, and it was a little far for us to bike... we didn't make it to her chruch, and she didn't come to ours either.
However, the wife of our recent convert asked for time off from work to go to church, and she came!! Their whole family was able to be there together.
I wrote this last week, but I guess I didn't send it. Oh well.
Wednesday, April 16, 2025
Week 28 (No Email)
Monday, April 14, 2025
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