This week has been a lot calmer than the
past few! It seems like the riots and tear gas attacks have finally passed.
San Francisco is finally back it its old self. Not a lot to report,
other than that I'm healthy and doing well!
Like
Isaac wrote, I have really been struck by the importance of Faith and Repentance. This week we taught a ton of lessons on the Plan of
Salvation, tying in the importance of Faith, Repentance, Baptism, Gift
of the Holy Ghost and Persevering to the End to this plan. No matter
how valiant we are at keeping the commandments and being examples of Christ, there is always room to have more faith and repent with more
diligence. 1st nefi 10 vs 19 talks about the importance of diligence.
Really when we search for anything with diligence, more faith, a
remission of our sins we will find comfort...especially in the Atonement
of Christ.
This week has been somewhat weird.
We can no longer contact door to door, like classic missionaries of old.
Soo we are praying and asking for a ton of references. Right now the
work is a little dead here. We have one baptismal date and no one else
who is really progressing. Our one baptism is scheduled for the 28th
and we are all super pumped. Manuel is progressing like crazy and helped
us bring another investigator with cancer to church on Sunday...it was a
miracle! She called us 15 minutes before church and we didn't have a
ride set up for her. We prayed that God would provide a way for Maritza
(tiene cancer) to come to church. To our surprise, Manuel was there with
his Guaga (little car thing - I'll try to get a picture because the thing
looks hilarious) and Maritza felt the spirit during sacrament meeting
and had a ton of questions. She's still super hesitant about baptism but
we are praying and working hard.
Other than
that this week has been superrr average. I got an awesome letter from
the family that made me a little trunky!! SHout out to Anna for getting
down to business and chugging through the Book of Mormon. Keep at it!
I
love you all. It's crazy to know that I passed the 6th month mark. I
can't really describe how weird time works on the mission. Its been the
longest, yet shortest, most taxing, yet rewarding sixth months of my
life. You can't watch grass grow and you certainly can't watch the
spiritual growth of a missionary day to day. All I know is that I have a
much stronger testimony of the truth and blessings of this gospel. I
have helped myself much more than I have helped any less-active, recent convert or
investigator. I know that the Libro de Mormon is absolutely the word of God.
Until next week,
Elder Blake
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| My new comp, Elder Cedeno |
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| El campo |
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| Intercambios with Sotello, Alberlise is progressing a lot. Hoping that she can come to church this Sunday! |
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| Just to give a good example of a typical domincan house, all cement |
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| With a couple young dominicanoss |
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| En el Campppo (Thought this looks like a mom tree) |
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