This week was a great one as far as the work goes. The members here
are awesome! Our ward missionaries are all teenagers who are preparing
for the mission, so they all want to come with us to do our visits. This
weekend was stake conference, and we had a bunch of members come up to
us and offer to take our investigators with them! I think this is going
to be my favorite ward in the mission.
Here is the update with our investigator Nilo... we had a
lesson with him in the week where he told us that he had been really
worried about his job and being a member of the church at the same time.
He told us that his job wasn´t in harmony with the teachings of the
Savior, and he just didn´t feel right keeping his job and being a member
of the church. We had a lesson with our ward mission leader, and Nilo
told us that he had made the decision to quit his job! He said that what
he really admired about us (members) is that we base our beliefs on
faith, our feelings, and not so much reason. He said that he just FELT
that he needed to quit his job, that the Lord wanted him there in the
church. Nilo is such a great example to me! He´s only found the church
about two weeks ago, he´s already read the whole book of mormon, and
he´s willing to leave everything behind to follow the Savior. It reminds
me of the scripture in Mark 8 34-36
¨Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and
take up his cross, and follow me. For whosoever will save his
life shall lose it, but whosoever shall lose his life for my
sake and for the gospel´s, the same shall save it. For
what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world,
and lose his own soul?¨
The Lord asks us to give up the very things that we love the
most, that are the hardest things to let go. It wouldn´t be a sacrifice
if it was easy!
This week in stake
conference President Borg shared something that really caught my
attention. He told a story of when he had gone boating with us three
sons, and that their boat and flipped over and they were all thrown from
the boat but one of his sons. President had been thrown from the boat
and was far away, so couldn´t immediately help his son that had been
trapped under the boat. He was comforted by the knowledge that he had
taught his son how to swim. Finally his son came to the surface and said
that he had been tangled up in the mast and the cables, but had faith
that he could escape and rise to the surface because his father had
taught him how to swim. We are seperated from our Heavenly Father here
and sometimes he can´t help us the way we want him to. But, we can have
faith that he teaches us how to swim, how to overcome the trials that we
are faced with and resurface. I read a talk from Elder Richard G. Scott
in the Liahona for this month, where he says that ¨our character
doesn´t develop en the moments of great difficulty or temptation, it is
then that it is used.¨ We can´t learn to swim in the moment that we are
trapped under the boat, we learn to swim little by little everyday so
that when the test comes, we are ready to swim.
I hope that all made sense. Just something that I learned that
I thought I´d share! I love you all so much!! Thanks for writing me
always! Have a great week. Hasta luego!
Love, Hna Anderson
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