I’ve completed 5 months in the mission now. Time is really weird in the mission, sometimes I feel really new but I also feel like I’ve been here forever sometimes. I feel like I should be a lot better for having 5 months in the mission. Patience is hard for me sometimes. Especially when it comes to investigators and coming to church! The rivaderas didn’t come to church again. We thought we had a really good lesson with them earlier in the week , we thought it might’ve changed things but maybe not. It doesn’t help that the hermanas phone is broken.
We had a good lesson with Rodrigo and his mom this week too. Normally his mom doesn’t join in, she has her own religion she says and she wasn’t interested. But she told us about how she was having a problem in her life last week, and she saw the book of Mormon so she opened it randomly and read something that helped her with her problem. Now she wants to listen to us too. Cool!
I see more and more how important the members are in the missionary work. The Abraham family was there with us in the lesson with Rodrigo, (their families are good friends) and it made the lesson so so much better. Its so much easier to get people interested when they have friends in the church. Rodrigo wanted to attend on Sunday , but then the familia Abraham decides not to show up. Therefore neither did Rodrigo or this girl named genesis that wants to get baptized. Abraham’s helped so much by coming to our lesson, and then turn around and kill us by not bringing our investigators to church. Missionaries and their investigators live or die by the decisions of members.
The highlight of the week must’ve been church or lunch on Saturday. Lunch on Saturday we had with members from the other ward (they have like 80, we have like 25 people who attend). They made a meal called pollo a disco, which is a ton of chicken, onions and other vegetables all cooked over a fire in a big kettle. Its amazing, I need to learn how to make it for when I get back!
On Sunday, I liked the lesson we had in Sunday school, which focused on Mosiah chapter 4. My favorites part is 27-30
27 And see that all these things are done in wisdom and order; for it is not requisite that a man should run faster than he has strength. And again, it is expedient that he should be diligent, that thereby he might win the prize; therefore, all things must be done in order.
28 And I would that ye should remember, that whosoever among you borroweth of his neighbor should return the thing that he borroweth, according as he doth agree, or else thou shalt commit sin; and perhaps thou shalt cause thy neighbor to commit sin also.
29 And finally, I cannot tell you all the things whereby ye may commit sin; for there are divers ways and means, even so many that I cannot number them.
30 But this much I can tell you, that if ye do not watch yourselves, and your thoughts, and your words, and your deeds, and observe the commandments of God, and continue in the faith of what ye have heard concerning the coming of our Lord, even unto the end of your lives, ye must perish. And now, O man, remember, and perish not.
For me, its basically saying that we will never be perfect in this life, but that’s okay. That’s why we have Jesus and the atonement. But, we do still have to our best to try to be perfect and to get better and better and improve everyday so that one day, in the next life we can be perfect like God and Jesus are perfect! Eternal progression.
Hope Everyone is doing great! Love, Elder Christensen
Pictures:
1.The most delicious meal ever
2.This kid insisted I wear his hat and let him take a picture hahah
I'll send more in another email it only let's us send 2 in one
3. the other two pics were unlabeled :(
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