March 8th, Go celebrate! Tell your mom thanks!
Yesterday
in church, someone got up and talked about how our Branch is like 80%
female, and how that's such a great thing, because he wouldn't be standing
there without his mom being a Mormon and helping him. Hey, and I
wouldn't be here without my mom being Mormon and helping me, either!
Thanks Mom!
Well, she said it in Spanish, but it remains true. ASKING QUESTIONS IS SO SO IMPORTANT!
Putting
a question in our heart, and then thinking about it, pondering on it,
searching for an answer, is one of the best ways to have the constant
companinoship of the Holy Ghost!
For example, I have had two questions in my heart for the past little bit.
Why can some people feel the spirit stronger than others?
How can I help my companion overcome the things he needs to in the month he has left in his mission?
These
two questions have been with me while I read the scriptures, and have
helped me stay focused when my mind gets distracted. And after praying
and searching for the answer.. Sure enough, it came. It often comes not
in a form of something new, but in the form of something that we´ve
already known--a type of confirmation.
These answers are often personal, but I promise you will feel them revealed to you.
To
me, some people feel the spirit stronger than others, because some
people harden their hearts, or have hard hearts, and do not let things
in. The answer came from Hebrews 2:7, and various others.
7 Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
And my other question was answered very strongly. I had been trying to teach my companion, because I felt
like there were some things he could learn (because he only has 30 or
so days left in his mission). And that let to some contention between
us, in which at the beginning of this week, we didn't get along. Which
is sad because we´re great friends. But what I learned is that... It
is not my job to teach, it is God´s job to teach. It is my job to
love. And I know this applies to all of you! It is not your job to
teach your neighbors, God did not assign you to teach, he assigned you to love them. We
do not know how God will teach them, but we cannot change their
hearts. We can only do our best, and love them, provide an example for
them, and let God do the work.
Some very important things happened this past week, including our top investigators have agreed to get BAPTIZED NEXT SATURDAY!!!
NEXT SATURDAY. WHAT???
Carmen
and Freddy are a married couple who live on the corner of a grape field
in the middle of almost nowhere. Freddy is a tough guy, read the bible
as a teenager, and has strong morals. A long time ago, he found a
little blue book with Gold lettering on the cover of it in a trash
can--A Book of Mormon. And more than anything--this gospel isn't
anything new to him. It all makes sense to him, and it fits very
naturally with him. Which I truly believe is true for all of us. The
gospel just makes sense if you let it. Love one another isn't anything
new, after all! Carmen is his wife, and they joke around a lot with
their two baby boys, Maxi (4) and Leo (2). They are always running all
over the table, neither of them can talk yet, and are constantly pulling
stuff apart when we have lessons, and are absolutely wild in church, but that didn't stop them. Some sisters are always willing to help during church and its great.
So
we pedal our little hearts out to get to them, and to get home after
late night lessons with them. Awesome sunsets and starry night sky's in
the middle of almost nowhere. And let me tell you, olive fields smell
awful at 10:30 at night.
Freddy works really hard and he was falling asleep during our lesson on Tuesday, so we had to end early....But our lesson last night about temples was great!
We been doing service like crazy, this past Saturday,
we almost finished the wall we've been building!
The wall we have been building is out back of this elementary school:
We picked up a youth to come with us, Juan Ignacio, to that activity, and when we stopped the car to wait for someone else, he got out and came back with a bunch of grapes.
We have activities every Wednesday
for the kids, and this past week we got out talented kids to play some
songs while we recorded them. We sang a long a little, even though we
only know how to sing hymns, ha!
We sang this song and its talks about how Love is more important than Money so YEAH! It's called "Yo Tengo Tu Love" and it is by Sie7e.
In
the photos below, Jhonny is in the pink tank top, and boy the kid can
sing/play guitarre... If you see his face on the top 20 music charts
soon, Know you heard about him here first! I know the kids these days
are doing great things! Have no fear!
YO TENGO TU AMOR
LOVE ELDER AMANN SEE YOU NEXT WEEK!
IT'S YOUR JOB TO LOVE
Also
hahahahah probably the highlight of this week was finding out (Gracias a
Elder Fuentes) that if you fold on the eyes of the dudes on the dollar
bills here, and then look at them from above, they look sad, but if you
look below, they look happy. hahaha!!
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| Sad image - from above. |
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| Happy image - from below. |
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| Standard image - from head on. |
