Conferencia (June 24, 2019)

We had a meeting a few hours north of here with a seventy. Elder de Hoyos. It was super good. He talked about talking to everyone, working with members, being of good cheer, and some other stuff.

In my last sector, one of my contacts was just baptized and confirmed.  That is super awesome. And here we have a good amount of people that we are teaching. We are also going to start English classes here soon. And who will be the teacher? Yo. I will be.  It will be super awesome and I am really looking forward to it.  

I gave a talk in sacrament meeting this week. We had a good amount of less active members come.  It was really fun. I spoke on Ether 12:27, and how to find people to teach as members.  This week was a very good week. This week should be really good as well.  

We all have weaknesses here and our natural person is an enemy to God. However, we can be changed and strengthened even to the point where we are the friend of Jesus.  

This was a fast one. I don't have much time, lo siento, hasta luego!

Getting Settled (June 10, 2019)

This week was super fun.  We started out with 1 person that we were teaching but we now have 6 people that are all fairly new.  And they all have a baptismal date set.  It is super awesome and hopefully this month we will have a few.  We have one person that is going to be baptized this week but in a different area because his family lives there. But it will still be awesome.  A few of our people have word of wisdom problems.  We are helping one person who has his baptismal date for the 7th of September. I don't know if we will still be here but we have some good plans to help him stop smoking.  This week was also the first time that during a lesson, the person pulled out a rubber glove from their backpack and the glove was full of marijuana.  

We had one of the people I was teaching be baptized the Saturday after I left and I am super excited for that. It is cool to see the other people that you were teaching continue to progress. 

 In Mosiah 26 Alma has to deal with some hoodlums and he is the judge. 13 And now the spirit of Alma was again troubled; and he went and inquired of the Lord what he should do concerning this matter, for he feared that he should do wrong in the sight of God.

14 And it came to pass that after he had poured out his whole soul to God, the ^avoice of the Lord came to him, saying:   

He went to the Lord in his need for inspiration to know what to do.  But his answer didn't come until after pouring out his whole soul to the Lord.  We can receive guidance and answers but most times it requires a lot of effort on our part. But we can always receive the answer.  

our calendar

that says, "don't throw away garbage, don't hunt the ducklings"

The Land of the Witches (June 3, 2019)

I am now in Salamanca. And it has the nickname of the land of the witches.  We'll see why.  But my "child" is Elder Magaña from Mexico.  He is super awesome and it will be fun working here.  We went to Viña to meet there then we took a bus for about 5 hours to here.  We are in a branch here and at 10:00 here we had 7 other people in the chapel.  By the end of the meeting we had 30 but it is super strange to see so little in the church.  

Our house was super dirty when we showed up and we have 1 person to teach but we are going to do a lot to find more people and get everything in order.  Salamanca is small but a lot prettier than Quillota.  I am excited to work here.

In Mosiah 23:21-22 it says, 21 Nevertheless the Lord seeth fit to ^achasten his people; yea, he trieth their ^bpatience and their faith.

22 Nevertheless—whosoever putteth his ^atrust in him the same shall be ^blifted up at the last day. Yea, and thus it was with this people.   

I think it is super important to see the cause of our afflictions in our life. If it is from God, satan, or a result of our agency or someone else's.  With that we can use the help of the Lord that he can consecrate or afflictions for our well-being and gain.