Week 23: 5 Months

 

Pday Gang: Elder Owens, Elder Marker, Elder Ellsworth and Elder Carter

October 19, 2022

So the door fell off; that was fun to deal with. Also the mold is back... again...

Other than that, the area's starting to open up, we're actually finding tons of people and it's getting hard to schedule times to go between the many locations we cover and align that with people's availability dates. You could say we're suffering from success, which is really nice. We've got a lot of complicated situations we're having to work out, but I know we'll be able to get it done. God's giving us the difficult situations because He knows Elder Ellworth and I are the guys who are gonna get the job done. The niños love us. They're always trying to get us to play soccer with them or a game of Uno, so we'll hang out with them for like 30 minutes, give them a Book of Mormon or a pamphlet and tell em next time we come we want to visit with them and their family together. So we've got some lessons planned for next week. Other than that there's not much going on.

Spiritual thought:

Matthew 6: 31-34

"31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
   32 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
   33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
   34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof."

I've shared this before, but I do again because it's important

Mosiah 2:41

"41 And moreover, I would desire that ye should consider on the blessed and happy state of those that keep the commandments of God. For behold, they are blessed in all things, both temporal and spiritual; and if they hold out faithful to the end they are received into heaven, that thereby they may dwell with God in a state of never-ending happiness. O remember, remember that these things are true; for the Lord God hath spoken it."

In this day and age, there is a lot of fear and devastation going about. Wars, rumors of wars, plagues, hatred, many things that have been foretold by profets since the beginning of Man. These are the last days. Christ will soon come to establish Zion (His city of righteousness) upon the Earth, and our priority is to prepare a people ready to recieve Him. If you have questions, please, ask the missionaries. It's why we're here.

I want to finish by sharing that God is not some foreign entity that we fear and are subject to. He is our loving Father, and we are mearly separated from Him for a time. He gave us our Agency (ability to choose) so we can choose to follow His commandments and be happy, or choose otherwise. He loves us and gives all the opportunity to hear His message through His missionaries. People like me! And we choose to leave our normal lives for a time because we know of Him, His love, and His Gospel, which we desire to share with everyone, because He makes us happy. I share these things as a humble messenger sent by my Father above, in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

~Elder Owens~

Photos
Beans on bread
Don't touch bad plants

Our door, almost fallen off
The door being fixed
Our door being fixed.
The temple (you should go to one)


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