D&C 53:2 - "Behold, I, the Lord, who was crucified for the sins of the world, give unto you a commandment that you shall forsake the world."
Howdy All!
Before I get started with anything, I have to congratulate two of
the favorite men in my life! First on my brother, B, who got in to BYU!!!!! I
can´t wait to be at BYU together Also congrats to Spencer, Rebekah, and Nick,
my cousins, who also got in! Super excited for you all. Also, huge happy
birthday to Pa!!! I love you so much, Dad! I hope you had a great birthday. I
thought about you a lot this week, and I hope someday I can be as great a
father as you are.
I hope you all had a great week, and that you didn’t suffer in
weather as hot as I did. We are in February!!! I should already be seeing
almost triple digits. It’s going to be over 90 this week. HOW DO PEOPLE SURVIVE
HERE? I don’t know what I am going to do when we get to July.
Anyway, this week was pretty eventful. A couple cool things
happened this week. We got to a lesson with an investigator, and we saw her
outside her door with her granddaughter, and I was thinking, “hmmm that’s
weird.” We got to her house, and she told us her granddaughter had accidentally locked themselves out, haha! Who knows how much time they were out there. She
asked if one of us could jump over the wall to open the door from the inside. I
willingly volunteered, but man it was not easy! I managed to squeeze myself
through a hole and jump over, all without staining my freshly ironed shirt! Who
knows, maybe in another year in the mission, I wont be able to fit in that same
hole because I’ve already gained like 10 pounds...
This week we taught our new member family about Temples and
Family History work, and they loved it! They are super excited to start looking
for their ancestors, and to be able to start preparing to enter the Temple!
They came again to Church to help clean it, and after, we had a Ward Family
Home Evening! It was super great. We had them all going around the entire
Church on an Amazing Race kind of thing, with scriptures that led to different
parts of the Church. It was pretty cool, and it was awesome to see the love and
unity this Ward has.
I had the opportunity to go and do Splits with the other Elders in
our area, I went with Elder Santamaria. He already has 20 months in the
mission, and he was a great example to me! He helped me a lot in being happier
in missionary work! This is the Lord´s work, it is glorious! The Mission
President, President Velez, and the two missionary Assistants, came to La Paz,
and they called us and asked if one of them could come with us. One of the
Assistants, Elder Gonzalez came with us, and we were super excited cause we had
a couple appointments set out, but they both fell, and we couldn't find hardly
anyone home in the planned we had set. So Elder Gonzalez took the initiative to
go out and contact people in the streets, it was such a great example to me! It
really helped me a lot. We did it so much, that I began to actually feel
desires to do it (which had never really happened to me before)! I know that it
was because I was doing as God would have me do, sharing the Gospel with as
many people as I could. We, as missionaries, are part of the prophecy that says
the Gospel will be heard in every ear!
I got a little bit sick to my stomach again this week, but when we
got to Church and the meetings started, I felt better, as people prayed for the
sick and afflicted. It was kind of weird to see the sharp pains I had been
feeling for days, just went away in an instant. It was an incredible answer to
my prayers that came in an unexpected moment. Just another evidence to me, that
God knows each and every one of us and He is aware of our needs. He loves us so
much!
--
Elder Daines
"Sunset feat. Cactus"
"Los Cabos!! (Week 25)"
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