Oh tis happy days indeed. Happy
birday to Marissa. Happy groundhog day. Happy wife hunting to Cameron.
Happy wedding day to my investigators this week. Happy Happy Happy.
For me, Ive found that im only happy when Im working or doing good
stuffs. For example, I made a goal this last week to not complain a
single time on Wednesday.
It was probably the easiest, funnest, and fastest day of the week.
Turns out when youre not looking for the negative, you can only talk
about the positive. And what Craig said is exactly true. The people we
make fun of, we usually end up helping jaja. The members in the ward
that I make fun of with my comp, we somehow end up doing service for or
teaching them.
A funny but sad story that happened this week. We were teaching a
family about the spirit world this week. Latinos absoluetly LOVE ghost
stories. Theyll stop whatever theyre doing to listen and watch. And I
brought up I had a real ghost video on my youtube page so they begged me
to watch it. It was just that dumb one in the park where I animated in
a screaming ghost, but they loved it. But when the ghost popped up, it
scared the nuts out of their son Jonotan (the kid I baptized) and he
fell and the ground hahaha. It was hilarious untill he started crying.
Then I felt terrible.
With investigators- Dina still wont get baptized.
She promises she´ll go to church every week because she loves God more
than anything, but then something always comes up- this week she decided
to go play at the city pool with her son. What.
Gloria and her family are getting married this Saturday!!
Yay!!! The sad part is only half of her family will get baptized with
her. And suggestions Craig? We´ve tried everything but her husband
and son dont want to repent.
Something that happened alot this week was being
turned down. People in the street would laugh at us or turn us down for
no reason. We even lost a few investigators for reasons I dont even
know. Some people mock us or turn us down just because theyre scared of
religion or they dont understand ordinances such as baptism. Or
especially because theyre more interested in themselves and things of
this world. Therefore, they get scared or turn away. But really what
do they have? They can gain the whole world, but will lose their own
soul. Theyll die and thats the end. Or maybe they think theyre body
will turn into a tree in the next life. I dont know. But I dont want
to be a tree. But why would anyone want to believe in nothing? The
wonderful thing about faith is that you have nothing to lose- only so
much more to gain! If not, the greatest gift in the universe- eternal
life! Better question, what reason is there not to believe? My heart
bleeds for those whos only faith is doubt. If I were given the
opportunity, Id give my life just to show them how much I love them and
desire them to know the truth of these things. But such is life.
Everything comes to a point where you need to let go and let God. I
pray that God has a plan, that just maybe the things Ive done will
little by little add up in their life, and theyll be brought to a
knowledge of the truth. And this is the truth of my testimony, that God
exists and loves all of his children. That Jesus Christ is our Savior
and this is his church. That by following his example and Gospel, we
can live again with our friends and families after this life. These are
such profound things, but also very simple. And by small and simple
things such as faith are great things brought to pass.
Con Amor,
Elder Walker
PS
Dad the empanadas arent that great here. But I did learn how to make
some peruvian doughnuts called picarones that will make you cry.
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