January 30, 2016

 

Nothing too exciting this week actually! Did divisions twice, just lots of traveling and being out of the house. Here´s some answers to the questions. 

Yes, packages go to the mission office and then get distributed. We live in the house with 6 elders, from Florida, Vegas, Vegas, Colorado, Bolivia, and El Salvador. Hodson goes home the 16th or 17th of february, something like that-he´s done basically. It´ll be fun because I´ll basically get to choose my next comp and I´ve narrowed it down to two! 

 and I sure hope Sarah gets that job! i think that would be a blast. Right up her alley too. 

 As for your talk...just for some scattered thoughts...I´m really pulling up blanks here. It´s just that everybody has to follow those steps! I can´t think of anything in specific. As far as us taking the step towards God-Heavenly Father is accesible only through his son-and every time that Christ preached in the new testament his was always an invitation to come unto him-we have to take that first step. So many people here are just waiting to ¨be touched¨ or waiting ¨to be called by God¨ and they end up waiting a long time because that´s not how it works. In a way though, he does touch people-He prepares people without taking away their agency. He sends missionaries, gives people trials, and lets them feel the light of christ when they see something religious. Becoming as a child. Obviously not childish, but childlike. Just like the scripture says, as a child submits to his father-not that we are childish but rather that we are willing to put God´s will in front of our own will. A boy does what a boy wants to do, and a man does what God wants him to do. Overcoming the natural man. We have a new investigator this week named carlos that´s pretty heavy into drugs but wants to change. We talked alot about the natural man and how to beat it. We told him it would be a long process and that he would have to win gradually, step by step. We explained that inside of him are two men-the spiritual man and the natural man, and they are in a constant fight and will be until the resurrection. And we told him that the man that wins is the man that gets fed more. Meaning, if we feed the natural man more than the spiritual man, he wins. The spiritual man is fed by scripture study, prayer, temple, service, family, etc. Hope you can find something good in my other baptism experiences, can´t really think of anything more specific! 

That´ll be fun having grandma and grandpa there. You all have to go and do something fun! What´s sterling gonna get for his birthday? Also glad that Kendall and Dottie and doing well. I saw some news the other day that AZ was getting pounded with snow again, was that true? 

Who do you like in the primaries? Do you like Ben Carson? 

And yeah, I´m pretty caught up on all the other gossip...slow news week! 

I´m trying to think of what else I can tell you...but I got nothing! I´ll be here for a while though, I´m just now sitting down to write.