Hey hey hey! Another good ole´ week in Chihuahua Saratoga
Springs
So Monday was just normal, we had our district meeting like
normal, and everything else like normal. And let me just say, it's started to
get REALLY hot here in Mexico
Tuesday also was a normal day, nothing much happened.
On Wednesday Elder Mendoza got quite sick so we had to stay in the
house for the first part of the day, so yeah, we just slept until lunch that
day. Later I had a really cool experience because like a week ago I had a
feeling that we needed to walk down a street and so we did, but nothing
happened. On Wednesday we decided that we needed to go back and visit a
specific house, so we did and a lady came to the door and had never talked with
missionaries so she let us in and we talked. By the end of the lesson she
started to pray like we do because she understood why and everything.
Yeah.....experiences like that are super cool!!!
On Thursday we put a baptismal date with one of our investigators
named Oscar. He has an addiction to smoking, so we are helping him with that.
Before he was smoking about 5ish every day, and now we have him down to 1-2
cigarretes every day. We put the baptismal date for the 17 of May, so all we
have to do now is teach him really good and help him stop smoking.
Friday, Saturday, and Sunday were weird days because one of the
other elders hurt his leg so me and Elder Mendoza took turns staying with him
while the other elder worked with his companion. So Friday and Sunday I worked
until 6:00 pm, and on Saturday I stayed at the house with Elder Nueman all day.
It was super weird staying in the house all day, and it was funny because Elder
Nueman is a little bit of a newer missionary and so he just loved the fact that
he could talk to me all in English because his companion only speaks Spanish as
well.
So yeah, other than that, I learned a lesson that was very
interesting and I liked it a lot, and so I think I'll share it with you all:
So in Exodus 16 we see the Isrealites and Moses. They had embarked
into the wilderness because they were to travel to another part of the
continent which I can't remember off the top of my head. During this time the
Isrealites start to murmur against Moses because they said that he had brought
them out in the wilderness just to kill them because they weren't able to get
food to eat. So Moses goes to God to ask what to do, and God tells Moses that
he is going to send Manna to them...every day he would send it, but Sunday he
wouldn't. My favorite parts are verses 19 and 20 and they say:
19 And Moses said, let no man leave of it till the morning.
20 Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of them
left of it till the morning, and it bred worms, and stank: and Moses was wroth
with them.
So in these verses they couldn't save the manna for more than one
day or else it got bad. In our days we can say that the manna is the scriptures
and prayer, seminary and church. We should be partaking of these things daily.
Something interesting is that just like the verses, we can't read more or pray
more one day and than call it good the next day. It doesn't work like that, it
is something we have to be doing every day. Also, if we don't do it, our spirit
could eventually 'die'...or we could get to a point where we can't feel the
spirit any more, thus, we see the importance of doing all of these things
daily. Also, when we are doing these things every day our spirit is going to be
strong and we are going to be able to withstand temptation very easily. So
yeah, that's my little example of the every day manna that we have. How
interesting right?!
So I also heard that about not sending food in
packages anymore but I honestly have no idea about the details. I'm sorry,
maybe you could ask the other moms if they know more about that.
Thanks for all the love and support. Everything is going good here!
Keep up the good work in everything that you all do, and enjoy these last 4
weeks of school ;) Love you all.Love,
Elder Loveless
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