Aug 13

So the week

The week was good.  We hit our goal for lessons this week (woo!), Teaching and finding, teaching and finding.  I love teaching I decided.  It´s fun to hear peoples problems and beliefs and try to help them understand the true and living Christ.  It´s a blessing and honor as well.  To feel the spirit work through you.  It´s quite a sensation! 

 

I can finally say that I haven´t fallen asleep one time during personal study this transfer (hands in the air!) .  I think my body has gotten used to the routine!  I love personal study.  The revelation that you can recieve when you study the scribetures is endless!  I love it!  The mysteries of heaven are being unfolded each day to me.  I started to study the book of mormon this transfer and not just read it.  Helps out a lot and you learn lots of spiritual truth when you study and not just read.  Only in 1 nephi 17 though >.>  Kinda a slow process but its all good!

 

So Beatriz was confirmed this sunday.  And yesterday (sunday) was fathers day.  They celebrate it in august.   During the meeting the speakers were talking about how awesome fathers are and heavenly father.  Bea started to cry and left the meeting.  Come to find out her dad died saturday.  Me and Elder Barreto left the meeting to see what we could do.  It´s pretty dificult to find the words to say when someone lost a loved one.  It generally happens in the blink of an eye.  And you can´t really do anything about it.  She was crying a lot and was worried that her Dad was going to go to hell.  I thought what it would be like if we didn´t have the restored gospel.  What would I have said?  But thankfully we have the answers to these things.  We taught her a little about the plan of salvation and had her talk with the bishop.  Even with that it´s still difficult.  After church went to lunch.  We were walking home when we passed the funeral of Beatrizs dad.  Was pretty sad.  I saw lots of people mourning and saying why why why.  Not knowing an answer.  One more testimony builder that i´m so blessed to know where i´m from, why i´m here and where I´m going.  As an apostle of the savior said (forgot which)  We live to die and die to live. 

 

I testify that this life isn´t the end.  That Christ lives.  And because he lives, we will live.  I don´t have a doubt about this, and I know that everything, in the end, will be alright.  That God exists and he loves us.  Death will not have the last word. 

 

Have a good week, and count your blessings.

 

Elder Diamond