Okay,
so this week was so great. We had the mission christmas party on Thursday which was the best. There was a bunch of really great food, soccer, volleyball, dodgeball, basketball, and every zone had a skit
that they prepared, and there was a gift exchange. It was a lot of fun
and I got to see all my friends from the CCM on the day of my 6 month anniversary on
the mission!
This Saturday we had planned that Isabel and Oliver would get baptized, but
Oliver wasn`t able to go to church yesterday so he`ll have to get
baptized the week after, but Isabel is for sure getting baptized on Saturday. We started teaching their dad, Eucebio, who has terminal lung
cancer. He has left the hospital to be with his family for Christmas and New Year`s. He does want to get baptized, but he wasn`t able to make it
to church yesterday. We taught him 4 times this week and he kept every
reading and praying commitment that we left for him, and he has faith
that the Book of Mormon is true. He asks a lot of questions about the
plan of salvation, and I realized that it is really hard to teach
someone that has already come to terms with the fact that they are going
to die. To look them in the eye and tell them that you know that they
will see their family again and that they will live again after this
life. It is very hard but I know that this is true, I have a testimony,
and the promises we make are real. They aren`t just made up to make
people feel better or to handle death more easily. It`s real, and it`s
true. We`re working really hard with this family because they are
prepared by God to receive this gospel.
We
did a lot of service this week and we didn`t really get much out of it.
It didn`t help our sectors grow, and we didn`t find new people because
of the service we did. And I realized that it`s because we didn`t ask
for referrals when we did the service. Members of the church have the
responsibility to do service because by serving their fellow being they
are serving their God. But missionaries are already serving their God 24
hours a day, and we have the responsibility to preach the gospel. And I
realized this week that if we do service projects without the purpose
of finding new people to teach, and we don`t ask for referrals, we are
wasting the Lord`s time.
I
had a great week. We taught a lot of new people and we`re trying our
best to help them progress. We have 3 families that we are working with,
including Isabel`s family,that we really have a lot of hope for that
they are going to get baptized. And a goal I have for myself is that I
want to see a family that I taught get sealed in the temple before I
finish my mission. And I realized that if I want that to happen, the
records that I fill out in the area book need to be superb, because I
need future missionaries to prepare them for the temple and they have to
be able to teach them according to their needs.
I hope you guys have a great week and a very Merry Christmas. I`ll see you all on Thursday! wooo.
Elder Jones
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