First off i have been getting so many compliments on my tagalog and it makes me happy because people are impressed! i love it! pinoy powers activate! my kid tells me im the best he knows but he just hasnt really heard others hahaha.
Speaking of my kid...Really it looks like Elder Arandia will hopefully be prepared by the end of his training to spread his wings and fly away from momma bird...i guess that makes me momma bird...but anyway he is doing good. Earlier this week there was a rough patch because we started talking about different things and then he acknowledged to me some of his different concerns and one of them had to do with success. He sometimes feels down because the work is hard or maybe it is not as easy as he thought it would be and he also talked about how it brings him down a little when people just dont accept what we are saying. Or when we may not know what to say. So this brought a really good discussion about success and the Spirit. This can also relate to worldly things too. We talked about success and as i listened to his concerns that i mentioned earlier i started showing him that our success is not always based on the actual result because people have their free agency, success doesnt mean that we will become the best or that we will get a lot of baptisms. True success comes from our efforts to do our best! As long as we are trying the best we can, we are successful in whatever it is we are trying to accomplish...i mean maybe we may fail or not get that job or they wont get baptized but at least we learned! like what i think Lynn G. Robbins explained in general conference is that our "mistakes" are steps to success. So we talked about what that means to have success and i gave an example of where we found success in our lesson even when there may not be a result and he agreed that it was successful. Then we talked about the Spirit because we know we are successful is the Spirit is working through us and guiding us in our work. He had told me how he had been discouraged because of not knowing what he should do or say sometimes in lessons, so i explained to him about how the Spirit sometimes works. We talked about always have the Spirit to be with us as one of the blessings from being baptized in the name of Jesus Christ and then i also talked about how right away we are not gonna know immediately how the Spirit speaks to us, it takes practice knowing how to follow the promptings of the Spirit. And really by the end of our conversation i was telling him that even if we are learning, the Spirit is working through us. We had a really good conversation and i shared with him my love and willingness to help him. Training really is awesome. on that same day we had such an awesome day and were really edified in our work!
We also had the wonderful opportunity to give baptismal dates to our investigators and with our investigator Jyyyya who has not been baptized yet but was supposed to be on april 14 is starting to get a stronger testimony of christ!
the work is awesome and i love you guys!
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