Tuesday, December 1, 2015

September 22nd

¡Buenas! familia y amigos,

En esta semana pasada, nosotros tuvimos bastante éxito en nuestro área y no tuvimos muchos tiempo en nuestra area!
So this last week we had a lot of success in our area and we didn't have much time in our area.

So last Monday my old comp left to go home, he was an alright comp, mostly I learned from our mistakes and errors on how I can be a better missionary and a better example in front of the other missionaries. So when I got my comp, we had to help our whole new zone get to their areas and to help them take the right buses, and this last week we had 11 new missionaries in our zone out of 17! So we started to get the elders of Guastatoya back to their area because they passed it and never got off the bus. Then we helped the elders of Estanzuela get to their area and then Gualan and then Teculutan. I can't express how stressed out I was on that day because us as zone leaders outside of the capital, we have to talk with the assistants and tell them when they got here, what time they got to their area and that they had their house all set up. It was a bunch of calling on that day. I can't imagine the life of the assistants. haha, sorry for them!

Well so then we went and visited some members that night to introduce my comp to them and on Wednesday we started to work. In the 5 days we had to work we had 13 new investigators! and 5 new dates for baptism! My comp has taught me so much about the faith that we need to keep moving forward and to always help our investigators understand the importance of this step in their lives to be baptized. And 4 of these baptismal dates were with new investigators that we taught in the first lesson!

I can't express how much my comp has taught me in these last 6 days! also yesterday night we saw a huge miracle. So we went to a different zone to have a meeting with president at 2 o´clock. The meeting was for us to understand what we need to do as leaders of the mission. So we then returned to Teculutan and started to work at 7 (the bus ride is 1 hour and a half each way).  We started to contact and search for someone that we talked to the other day because here in Teculutan there aren't directions. So we were looking for her when we contacted someone in the street and he told us that we could go to his house right now and share the message with him and everyone that lives in the house. So we asked how many people lived there and he told us that it is a house that they rent out as workers for 8 months until the melon farming is completed and he said there were 16 workers that lived in this house! So we went there and they said to come back in 20 min because they needed to go and buy food for dinner. So we said we would come back in 20 min and then all of a sudden we saw the person we contacted about 2 days before and she came and talked to us and said she lives 2 houses down from the giant house of workers! So we went and taught her and her husband (well they aren't married) and turns out that she is a member and he isn't! So we invited him to be baptized and for them to be married so that they can recieve the blessing of having a family and not just living together and he accepted! We were so happy after we had that lesson, that we then went to the other house of 16 people and only 12 of them were there but we shared something with them and invited all of them to baptism! They said that they would pray and ask God if these things are true and when they recieved their answer, they would be baptised!  We have seen so much blessings in this area within only 6 days that I can't believe the opportunity I have to be part of them and to receive them!

So in  this last week i have been reading in 2 nephi! and i love chapter 4 verses 34 and 35
34 O Lord, I have trusted in thee, and I will trust in thee forever. I will not put my trust in the arm of flesh; for I know that cursed is he that putteth his trust in the arm of flesh. Yea, cursed is he that putteth his trust in man or maketh flesh his arm.

 35 Yea, I know that God will give liberally to him that asketh. Yea, my God will give me, if I ask not amiss; therefore I will lift up my voice unto thee; yea, I will cry unto thee, my God, the rock of my righteousness. Behold, my voice shall forever ascend up unto thee, my rock and mine everlasting God. Amen.

 We all need to put our faith and trust in him. we can't put it in someone/something else. Those things won't save us from our sins. Only our trust in god and in christ will help us repent of our sins and change our lives, through the Atonement.

My prayer for all of us is to be more like our examples in the Book of Mormon, to be like nephi in this chapter and to always repent of our sins and turn to Christ.
  
I love you all and I hope that we can be the disciples of Christ that god needs us to be!


Elder Flygare

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