Monday, August 7, 2017

Jacob - July 31, 2017

Hey everyone, this week was sort of a tough one. It was one of those
weeks where we got out to work, but not much happened. Sort of a
patience tester I guess, but we're keeping at it. I think that's the
one thing that i've noticed in this mission how areas seem to just go
through phases where things are going super good and then they sort of
decline until more people are found to be taught. As of now we have a
decent amount of people that we are trying to follow up with and work
with. But the tough thing is that most of them are hard to find, we
see them once and teach them a lesson and then they fall off the face
of the earth. But we are staying diligent. This week will be an
interesting one, it'll be my comp's last week and he's got a bunch of
different events for the week. But it'll be a good one. Hopefully
we'll be able to flip things around and meet some new people. This
past week we had a zone conference about understanding the role of the
Holy Ghost and doing the small things to be worthy of his
companionship. We listened to a talk by Elder Holland called "TheDivine Companionship," that was super good. He certainly know how to
teach using stories. The story he shared was about how a 18-20 year
old ran from his house in idaho and joined a biker gang and got caught
up in the evils of the world. He lived in New York for a time and then
moved to Southern California. One day as he was on his porch, two
missionaries stopped by and at first His dogs were super aggressive,
but then stopped and went back to the owner. The missionaries went in
and talked with the man. Turns out that the man, in the biker gang,
was the older brother of one of the missionaries. That was the first
time they met, the older brother didn't even know that he had a
younger brother because he burned all bridges back to his family. But
turns out the older brother cleaned up, repented and ended up getting
sealed at some point in time. Super inspiring story about the miracles
we can experience on the mission. I can't recall of experiencing a
miracle of that magnitud, but I know the Lord gives us miracles. I
remember reading a talk a little bit ago about the Tender Mercies ofthe Lord by Elder Bednar (General Conference April 2005), It helped me
understand how all the miracles we see in our lives are just tender
mercies that the lord sees fit to bestow us. He bases his talk off of
the scripture in 1 nephi 1:20 "But behold, I, Nephi, will show unto
you that the tender mercies of the Lord are over all those whom he
hath chosen, because of their faith, to make them mighty even unto the
power of deliverance." I really like how Nephi chose to word this
scripture, that the tender mercies are for those that the lord "hath
chosen, because of their faith" in Elder Bednar's talk, he essentially
explains that it is up to us whether we decide to be chosen of the
Lord, or not. It is dependent on our faithfulness which is dependent
on our Obedience. (James 2:17) I'm not sure why i'm going on this sort
of rant, but I know this principle is true. I love you all and
encourage you to be faithful so that you may receive the tender
mercies that the lord has in store for you. I love you all! Se Cuidan!

Elder Baer

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