This week we labored in the vineyard and worked hard to help people to keep their commitments. honestly that is the hardest part of missionary work. Helping people see that what they need to do to be happier is change and that are messages is what they need as part of their change. I think it is a fact that if we are not satisfied with our life or if we are experiencing that feeling of route presentation or almost like that there is something missing that we need to do to those things that will not gives a temporary happiness but things that will help us live a higher standard of life, the one that helps us follow Christ and make covenants with Him to come closer unto Him. What we find sometimes especially with ourselves is we complain about how life is but we never do anything or get to comfortable where we are. We experience this a lot as missionaries where you cry repentance and it is so tiring and hard but, even through rejection it is still so much fun weirdly enough that no matter how hard it is, if you really focus on Christ and the work then you never get too discouraged. He always lifts you up but just like the people in the time of Moses with the snake placed on the rod all you have to do is look unto Him to be healed or helped.
One of the families we are working with is KYYYaren and TXXon TXXon. They are great because they do the assignments and they love the messages we share with them. We have been teaching them about the Book of Mormon and the Restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. They became interested to know the message and have been praying to know the truth but have not yet gotten an answer. This last week we decided to share about the Plan of Salvation. It was a great lesson we explained how families can be together forever and talked about the temple. I love talking about the temple. I believe it is very important that people get familiar with the temple because this is one of the great blessings that can be found anywhere else, in any other belief! That God has created a plan for families and marriages to not be until death and then they part but for the eternities!!!! kYYYaren wants to know about the truthfulness of the message but she is afraid of changing religion and her traditions. The spirit was so strong in the message as we tried to help them see that they need to go to church and pray about the message. Hopefully they will see more what they need to do.
AYYnnie, JXXR and BXXenedict are still not sure about baptism, we are working hard to help them and have taught them a lot now so we are going to work on them reading the Book of Mormon all of the way through and try as much as we can to get them more involved in the church with activities and whatever else we can.The talk that Elder Uchtdorf gave was profound. Come and See, Come and Help, Come and Stay. Very simple and i know that combined with the Book of Mormon will really help them.
CYYharlotte was allowed to get baptized, we are so very excited, we got scared that she would not be allowed by her parents and yesterday we were really excited because her Aunt MYYelissa went to church and she really liked it and we are so very excited because before this family did not go to church and was visited by missionaries in the past being encouraged to go to church but they opened up to us and we are excited about it. We know the day that when all of our plans fell through a month ago and we decided to go visit a family we didnt know (the AXXbad family, CYYharlotte and MYYelissa's family) that we were guided by Heavenly Father to meet them and help them come unto Christ. God works in very mysterious ways. We are very excited for them.
We have been challenged to get 15 investigators every single week and this week was a busy and rough one so we fell short of our goal and yesterday we needed to find two more investigators and we finished our last appointment at 8:30. You can just imagine how worried we were to get those last two investigators. We went and taught one whose name is Darla. Coolest experience ever because we tried to keep the lesson short but we also wanted to help her according to her needs and it was really cool because i felt a quiet firm impression that she is facing problems with feeling judged at school among her peers and i talked about it and testified the gospel will help her feel happier and we testified that God loves her. it was awesome and then the last lesson we mightve found after curfew...because we kept getting rejected but we made our goal and kept our word to our mission president and then on the way home we found someone who was being taught and almost got baptized but then moved away. Crazy! i love how people just get placed in our path! it is awesome!
The Work of the Lord is great! I know His hand is in all things! I love you all and hope you have a fantastic week!
Elder Wright
america, chile, brasil, and australia
BIGGEST SNAIL EVER
we are trying to replace the door and so we can still shower as use the bathroom, this is the curtain i created out of garbage bags
this is me tired as we worked on the door...thats a story
coconut shells
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