How´s everything? Happy Easter and april
fools day (in Bolivia it´s December 28). And instead of Easter, they
celebrate semana santa because of the catholics culture here. They serve
certain foods each day (so I´ve eaten the same thing for each meal).
There is no such thing as the Easter bunny here. At least the practice
of hiding and finding eggs is in the scriptures; Job 39:14, and 2 Nephi
20:14. It obviously represents the gathering of the lost tribes....
So this week was stressful to say the least. I was
without a companion until wednesday came around. All of those things
that I listed last week, I did them and that made my week stressful. I
was in the airport and the Bus terminal everyday this week picking up
and dropping off missionaries. But with alot of dificulties, I learned a
lot. 3 things that I learned are:
1. Under stressful circumstances, be calm, especially if you´re the
leader. People will follow that example. If you´re shouting, stressed,
impatient, etc, it just makes things worse.
2. The role of
stewardships and recieving revelation for every calling, leadership
position, etc. You recieve revelation for that calling and nobody else.
Things came to my mind this week that I wouldn´t have thought otherwise.
We should always respect those that are called, even if they´re not
perfect.
3. The Lord always provides.
So even
though we didn´t have that much time to work in our area, we still we
dilligent and taught a good number of people. my compi Elder Medina is
awesome. He´s very obedient, humble, knows alot, and we get along great.
He´s probably one of the best companion´s I´ve had. He´s already taught
me so much in these few days. He has a ton of desires to share the
gospel with everyone and we´ve already gotten to work. He always say
that `` (the people) have ears, but do not hear.´´ That has helped me
alot take more control over the lessons. Anything that they could say to
us is not more important that what we have to say. At least we know the
truth and we, the missionaries, need to take control and be the driver
in this bus headed towards exaltation.
Have a fine day,
Elder Walker
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