One more week
Buenas tardes!!
O días o noches. I hope you all had a great couple of weeks! These last couple weeks have been pretty good here in the office and Concepción. Here's a quick sum up of the last couple weeks:
-Yesenia, a little nine year old, came up to us one day I'm church and told us she wanted to be baptized. And she got baptized. Apparently the ward never got to her baptism when she was 8. So we got to help her out with the amazing process
- Right now we are working with our new friend Diana. She is amazing and always amazes us with her curious questions. She read the book of Mormon in three days and has a document filled with notes and amazing questions that have us thinking. Right now she has a baptism date for the 29th! She already knows it's all true!
- Lately we have been getting ready for our leaders to go home and receive new mission leaders. The McKays are going and the Pincays are coming to Guate! Our new mission leaders are from Ecuador and I'm excited to see the revelation they begin to bring in a week.
- Brad Wilcox came ro speak to us as a mission! It was amazing and I got a chance to get to know him a bit due to being an office missionary.
Brad Wilcox taught us about the 12 tribes of Israel and taught us about the "birthright" that each and everyone one of us gain as we make covenants with our father in heaven. He explained, in an amazing way, how the covenant relationship is with our father in heaven. As a missionary I got into the bad practice of explaining the baptism or covenants in general as a type of contract relationship with our father in heaven. As we follow him and keep his commandments he promises us eternal life and his spirit. In a very summed up way that is how I used to explain. But he explained to us that it is a contract-like relationship. The whole purpose of the covenant isn't just to receive the written blessings, but that we can create a better and more personal relationship with our father in heaven. So that we can access his love and power when the times get rough. Focusing on this purpose of covenants has helped our friends have a greater desire to make them. And has also helped me remember that there is always more that I can do to better my relationship with God. Relationships need work. A contract relationship is something rigged unchanging. A covenant relationship grows and becomes better with the effort to show more love for God.
So what more can you do?
That's what I have been thinking about and I invite you to too.
I hope all my thoughts came out well written and make sense. This coming week should be a little crazy for me because it is the last week to prepare for the new mission leaders, MLC, and the "meet the new mission leaders" meetings. But it'll be great!
I love you all and hope yall have a great week! And I'll bug ya later!
Yesenia and the Reyes Maldonados!
Diana with her baptismal date for the 29th!
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