Holy cow I have eight months in the mish, in a couple weeks I'd be at the halfway mark - if I was a girl.
I honestly have no idea what I can write this week, haha. Honestly, I don't feel like writing. I love reading all the emails from everyone, but I don't know how to reply to everyone like a missionary. Hahaha I could give a summary of what happened during the week but that would bore even me. And then I could try to share all the spiritual things that happened but since I only have one inv. and a dead ward that would be a short letter.
The one ray of light in the week is our investigator, Leonel, who is a young man of 15 years. He really wants the gospel. It's so refreshing! We go and teach and he asks what his homework is, we give him a chapter to read in the book of mormon and he asks, "Only one?" When we go, he gives us a tight hug. He lives with his mom and his little brother, who is insane, and his mom is really closed up, past feeling. After Leo cleans the whole house and tends his little brother all day, his mom gets home and asks him why he's so disrespectful. He feels like zero love in his house, and even less support, so when we come and tell him that god loves him and that his a really good kid and stuff he feels the love that's missing in his life. We passed by unexpectedly on Sunday, to teach the word of wisdom, really quick, and he shared with us his feelings about getting baptized. He feels discouraged because his mom still hasn't given him permission. I.d.k. I felt like it was a cool experience, that we could pass by in that moment to tell him to pray and read and that god will come through and to help him feel a little better.
Idk share more investigator stories, but we don't have anymore investigators, haha.
We visited our ward mission leader, who lives in the apartment above us (he owns the house), last night and ate a bunch of really good food. After he asked us if we could share a message, because he wanted his sons to learn from the missionaries and see our example. Before going to visit him we dropped our stuff off in our room, thinking they were just going to feed us and share mission stories or whatever. I felt like I needed to bring my scriptures, and I did need them, haha. So I shared a scripture that I read the other day and it like jumped off the page when it called out my attention. It's D&C 59:3-4, and it talks about how if we're faithful we'll be crowned with glory but then it talks or mentions something I really liked. It says something like "commandments not a few and revelations in their time." Commandments not a few, I really liked because I'm so fed up with members not fulfilling their callings, missionaries disobeying rules, and saying God only wants to see our progress, I'm not perfect. Ya, but if you aren't trying to be perfect by doing the things within your power, perfectly, you'll never reach the mark that Jesus has set for you.
Don't worry I didn't share this with the family, I shared the scripture and a little bit about how we need to work, but it was much softer. The scripture talks about revelations in their time, sometimes as missionaries, or members, we wonder why I'm not hearing the constant voice of the spirit putting the words directly in my mouth or telling me to keep walking down this street and knock on this door, blah blah blah. God never said he's going to tell us everything, every person we need to contact or everything we need to share, but if we are studying praying trying to be the best we can by following his example, my words that I'm using while waiting for the spirit to take over are the words he wants me to say, that when we pray about the book of mormon to know if its true, god doesn't answer us the first time we ask, maybe not the second or the third or the tenth, but he will answer. the revelations in their time. not before and not after, or job is to be doing the right thing at the right time so when that time comes we are ready to hear.
I've ranted enough, I wouldn't mind this area or the change too bad, but my comp is a hard comp. He's the first one, I'd say, that wasn't my friend. He's like rude and instead of correcting my Spanish when I say something wrong he just laughs, haha. It's joyful to be around him. Just a thought to be kind to one another the people that you don't think about or you only pass by, be kind.
And to close, like a missionary I know this church is true, I know that Joseph smith was a prophet of god and that Thomas s monson is his successor and the mouth piece of Jesus christ on the earth. I know that the scripture contain gods word for us and without profound study of the scriptures we are wasting that god given opportunity to learn.
I love you all individually,
Elder Blotter
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