Saturday 22.02.2020

Haha I haven't written this whole week... but it's all good. This week has been a big stresser. We have been working so hard and not seen many results, but we know that the seed doesn't spring out a full grown tree full of fruit immediately. But everything seems to be going pretty well. This week has been super hot and humid-- the temp got into the 40's in Celsius. But we went and worked like normal and met some new people and work around the people we have been visiting to see who truly needs help.

The mission can also be truly frustrating at times. The people that you teach don't always follow through will the commitments that we leave them and they don't feel bad for not following through with it either. As a missionary the big question we ask ourselves is "is it me or is it them? Am I the one not allowing them to have success or is it possibly their circumstances that don't allow them in this moment to progress?  And we continue to learn and grow to love God and his son Jesus Christ as missionaries or I should say as Disciples of Jesus Christ we enable the blessings to flood into our lives. This is exactly what we invite others to come unto Jesus Christ and receive his redemption but they just need to act even just a little to be able to receive these things and this is why it is hard for me and us as missionaries of the Jesus Christ whens those we teach the true and everlasting principles of the gospel don{t follow through they are missing out on the essential blessings of life here on earth. I{m not a perfect teacher and i don't think i ever will be but if i do one thing about the Savior Jesus Christ, it is that he best taught through testimony and example and he continues to do so through his modern day living prophets. 

We have been teaching a man named Willy and his son Santiago, but I have truly seen how the gospel of Jesus Christ has quickly changed this man's life and all he did was look at himself and realize the blessings that he is truly missing out on in his life. He began to pray everyday which has allowed God's spirit to be with him throughout his day. Then he began to read and gained a desire to learn more of the mysteries of God through The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ.  He has become fascinated with Gods hand in our lives. Imagine how Gods power can change a man's life that didn't want to hear a word we had to say and now he literally cannot wait for our visits to teach him the true and Restored gospel of Jesus Christ. Wow I am so proud to see and be a part of this wonderful process that is conversion unto Christ. To be honest I never thought I would be so excited to write or that I would ever write about someone and how they came unto Christ and his true Church here on earth. 

Sunday 23.02.2020

Today is pretty crazy they celebrate something called Carnival, Which i don't entirely understand what it is or why they do it. But they cut down palm trees and then decorate it with ribbons and weave the branches then they attach like prizes or gifts to the branches and then they stand it up. the tradition is that they have a person that chops down the tree but while they chop the other people there get to throw paint, mud, water, or whatever they can find and yah they drink and dance and yah.