Week 33

Guau!! El fin de semana... Con Conferencia General!!

 

 

This week was a fire week you guys! Lots of tiring work, lots laughs, some hardships, and a lot of doctrine and revelation!! General conference is so fire. It's like watching the Avengers, but the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints edition. YESS BROOO! I only wish we could've watched it on a bigger screen than my phone. Very spoiled white boy just came out of me but it's kind of fun in a setting like that yanno??

 

 

If you have other missionaries on your email list, I am almost 100% certain they will bring up General Conference. They should! It was seriously amazing. I'll bring it up briefly because the only way to know how good it was... is to watch it! So that's my invitation. However, this General Conference really focused on inner peace despite the outside chaos in the world. I found a lot of comfort in that! It's scary to think that it could get worse in the future. I want to have a family and in the future when I have kids, raising them in a scary world is going to be hard! President Nelson taught us how to have inner peace!! Isaiah 9:6 mentions the several names of Christ and my favorite one is Prince of Peace! Kinda cool that it was focused on peace!

 

 

This week was a bit of a tougher one. You know when you're with someone for a long time and eventually you become so comfortable that you can just let all of your weird habits or quirks out? Élder Loria and I are getting to that point. I think we're both starting to push each other's buttons a little bit more than we used to. Don't get me wrong, I love this guy so much!! We've had such a good time together. I just wanted to share so you all know you can never get the perfect companion! (that's a good thing)

 

 

We did a lot of finding this week which was nice. We walked around in the nice warm weather and were able to talk to mucha gente! Per usual, I got some harsh rejections, but it will never stop me unfortunately for them. It's just too much fun going out and telling people about this amazing Gospel!! I don't know what it is, it's just my heart rings when I tell people about it. My heart may ring but their face may look annoyed. It's how life is! God gave us agency, right? We have a choice and I can't make anyone do anything. It sounds like a simple truth but sometimes I need to make sure that I remember that... 

 

 

We had a call with all the Spanish speaking missionaries on the mission last night. It was pretty cool because they pretty much say that we all need to be better at our language studies. At first I was a little offended, but then I realized that I could use some help. They gave us some good suggestions and we tried giving each other advice. Very helpful stuff I'll say!

 

 

This week while studying The Book of Mormon, the story of Alma and Amulek when they're being persecuted really stuck out to me. In this story, the people who believed in the words they were preaching were burned. Women, men, and children were burned because of what they believed. Alma and Amulek were smitten on the face, spit on, and harsh words were used against them. Now, in my life I've never been spit upon or hit for what I believe... But I have experienced some hard things because of what I believe. I've been made fun of, been left out of things, looked down upon, and judged. However, for this we have a unique promise for enduring these temporal situations and looking at the bigger picture. 

3 Nephi 12:10 - And blessed are all they who are persecuted for my name’s sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

What a wonderful promise. I am very fortunate to not have gone through the things that Alma and Amulek and those people had to go through. However I know that if I Stand up for Him and what I know of Him, I will have a place in the Kingdom of Heaven.

 

 

Sorry for the long spiel today but I just wanted to let you all know that I love you! You're a child of a Living Heavenly Father who still performs miracles and answers prayers. I hope all of you have a good week, I think for some of you it's spring break woot woot, and I'll talk to you next week! Feel free to reach out to me! Be safe!

 

 

Alma 14:26 - And Alma cried, saying: How long shall we suffer these great afflictions, O Lord? O Lord, give us strength according to our faith which is in Christ, even unto deliverance. And they broke the cords with which they were bound; and when the people saw this, they began to flee, for the fear of destruction had come upon them.