WEEK 41: PIMENTEL
July 16, 2019
Today was a good day. We met with Maximila and she's the best, but she is having a hard time understanding a few things. We are finding a lot of people thanks to the Lord, and we're about to find success here in a week or two. I learned some more Portuguese today, and it's way tight. It's like Spanish with some English sounds in there, so it's pretty easy. The Lord helps us when we are obedient, so we gotta get to sleep.
July 17, 2019
Today we had really good numbers (we measure and report contacts, new people we are teaching, invitations to come to Church, invitations to baptism, and people with a baptismal date), and we did so great today with those. So that was good, but it's also important to have quality behind the numbers.
Today we were led by the Spirit in a lesson with Sandra, so much that neither my companion nor I remember what exactly we taught, or even what scriptures we used. But we literally had our tongues loosed. Elder Varas was saying afterwards, "Dios es grande, Dios es grande," which means "God is great." I realize how small and insignificant we really are, but at the same time God works through us. The scripture in Ether 12:37 constantly goes through my head: "because thou hast seen thy weakness thou shalt be made strong..." Sometimes we lack faith, but just when we are to the point of giving up, we can see the promises of the Lord and are able to keep going. In Mosiah 23:21 it says "...the Lord seeth fit to chasten his people; yeah, he trieth their patience and their faith." So God pushes our limits a little bit. Our faith is like a new muscle, if we don't have a new max-out every once in a while, if we don't completely destroy that muscle in a workout, it doesn't grow. It's all about progress, and I'm seeing a lot of progress in my own faith.
July 18, 2019
Today we walked around a ton, we contacted a lot of people, and we are working hard to find more people to teach. If we have faith, everything works out. But it was a good day. I knocked on a door and out of nowhere the Holy Ghost told me to ask this lady if someone had died recently in her family, and she was like yeah, my uncle died three days ago. The Lord be working through us.
July 19, 2019
Today we had a huge multi-zone conference with all of the mission. We saw the Elders in Bagua, so I sent some hot chocolate packets to Hermana Herlinda with them. We heard some really good counsel today, and it makes you do a lot of introspection. This has easily been the three changes that were the most difficult for me. When I look back on what I learned, I am grateful, but I still have this feeling of 'Could I have done something different?' I've been doing all I can here, I've been working so hard, but we haven't had baptisms or conversions in a long time. I really have been working and doing all I need to do, but the results haven't come in such a long time. My faith isn't perfect and I'm working on having more faith in my calling and authority, and in the power of God. These times have been really hard, but we are praying for these people we are teaching to get baptized.
Renzo and Karen had an accident with their baby, she had a little heart attack or something, so we are praying hard for them. Also, Sandra and Joansi are going to need a miracle to get baptized this month, but I believe in miracles.
In the multi-zona, Presidente and his wife talked a lot about our future, what kind of missionary we need to be, who we are going to be after our missions, and who we are going to marry. So that got me thinking about how much I want to marry someone who has a strong relationship with the Savior, who is gonna to raise our kids right, and she gotta look dang good and everything too. But I love this mission, and I'm way tired.
July 20, 2019
Today was an interesting day. I felt kinda low all day, which is weird because I've never felt like that before here on my mission. The Spirit wasn't in a ton of our lessons, but we still had a good day. I don't know, I'm pretty discouraged about our area. Presidente Balderrama told me that I shouldn't worry, to keep doing my part, and to continue to have faith that God will do His part. He told me to rely on the Lord and to not worry about the rest. But we good out here, I know the Lord will help us with what we need to do.
Today was a good day. We met with Maximila and she's the best, but she is having a hard time understanding a few things. We are finding a lot of people thanks to the Lord, and we're about to find success here in a week or two. I learned some more Portuguese today, and it's way tight. It's like Spanish with some English sounds in there, so it's pretty easy. The Lord helps us when we are obedient, so we gotta get to sleep.
July 17, 2019
Today we had really good numbers (we measure and report contacts, new people we are teaching, invitations to come to Church, invitations to baptism, and people with a baptismal date), and we did so great today with those. So that was good, but it's also important to have quality behind the numbers.
Today we were led by the Spirit in a lesson with Sandra, so much that neither my companion nor I remember what exactly we taught, or even what scriptures we used. But we literally had our tongues loosed. Elder Varas was saying afterwards, "Dios es grande, Dios es grande," which means "God is great." I realize how small and insignificant we really are, but at the same time God works through us. The scripture in Ether 12:37 constantly goes through my head: "because thou hast seen thy weakness thou shalt be made strong..." Sometimes we lack faith, but just when we are to the point of giving up, we can see the promises of the Lord and are able to keep going. In Mosiah 23:21 it says "...the Lord seeth fit to chasten his people; yeah, he trieth their patience and their faith." So God pushes our limits a little bit. Our faith is like a new muscle, if we don't have a new max-out every once in a while, if we don't completely destroy that muscle in a workout, it doesn't grow. It's all about progress, and I'm seeing a lot of progress in my own faith.
July 18, 2019
Today we walked around a ton, we contacted a lot of people, and we are working hard to find more people to teach. If we have faith, everything works out. But it was a good day. I knocked on a door and out of nowhere the Holy Ghost told me to ask this lady if someone had died recently in her family, and she was like yeah, my uncle died three days ago. The Lord be working through us.
July 19, 2019
Today we had a huge multi-zone conference with all of the mission. We saw the Elders in Bagua, so I sent some hot chocolate packets to Hermana Herlinda with them. We heard some really good counsel today, and it makes you do a lot of introspection. This has easily been the three changes that were the most difficult for me. When I look back on what I learned, I am grateful, but I still have this feeling of 'Could I have done something different?' I've been doing all I can here, I've been working so hard, but we haven't had baptisms or conversions in a long time. I really have been working and doing all I need to do, but the results haven't come in such a long time. My faith isn't perfect and I'm working on having more faith in my calling and authority, and in the power of God. These times have been really hard, but we are praying for these people we are teaching to get baptized.
Renzo and Karen had an accident with their baby, she had a little heart attack or something, so we are praying hard for them. Also, Sandra and Joansi are going to need a miracle to get baptized this month, but I believe in miracles.
In the multi-zona, Presidente and his wife talked a lot about our future, what kind of missionary we need to be, who we are going to be after our missions, and who we are going to marry. So that got me thinking about how much I want to marry someone who has a strong relationship with the Savior, who is gonna to raise our kids right, and she gotta look dang good and everything too. But I love this mission, and I'm way tired.
July 20, 2019
Today was an interesting day. I felt kinda low all day, which is weird because I've never felt like that before here on my mission. The Spirit wasn't in a ton of our lessons, but we still had a good day. I don't know, I'm pretty discouraged about our area. Presidente Balderrama told me that I shouldn't worry, to keep doing my part, and to continue to have faith that God will do His part. He told me to rely on the Lord and to not worry about the rest. But we good out here, I know the Lord will help us with what we need to do.
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