November 9, 2009

Wow...this message was a little bit of a shocker! I didn´t expect that. I love President Saucedo, I feel like we have a personal relationship which I really like. I was just listening to the music we sang in the MTC choir when we went to General Conference, it´s available on lds.org. Woohoo!! Now I¨m watching and listening to ELder Eyrings talk on the Book of Mormon. My mind is fried right now. Today ... is a hard... day. Patience, patience, patience and charity charity charity. I ... am SOOO... sick of missionaries. Not missionaries I love being an Elder, I had to stop and take a step back and just listen intently to the voice of the holy spirit. I was in the church reflecting on all that happens here.. (*sigh*)... but then I realized, the privilege to testify and declare the word of God, here in these latter days to the children of God, my soul is ensaddened by the things I see and those who deny the message and those who choose in contrast to the laws of God. I fail myself and I mourn now for my thoughts and the things that penetrate my heart. But I rejoice in the opportunity I have had to bring souls to Christ, though I may rejoice in very few fruits right now, I know those effors will bring forth miracles in the years to come, until I leave this earth those efforts which countless missionaries have put forth will bring forth treasure unto the Lord. Souls of righteousness having partaken in the ordinance of baptism, having received the remission of their sins and finding the truth which their souls longed and poured out for. It´s fun to think about. This morning, well first off, today´s the day of changes and I´ll be with Elder Perez, not the same one I just had, but my old zone leader, he´s coming here. I was NOT too excited in the beginning. Some Elders have THEIR way and aren´t very receptive to ANY other... we´ll see how this works, I won´t accept selfishness anymore though. I will suffer what the Lord will have me suffer, my Lord will help me. However, if there is anything I might do do establish a kind loving relationship between us that would be fantstic. I´ve learned that I really do train leaders... lol. My first junior companion Elder Oakes is a district leader right now, Elder Nichols also just went from Junior Companion to District leader, Elder Harding is senior (to my knowledge) and Elder Perez, the first, is senior again. So that´s the jist of it. I understand Elder Nichols is stressed right now, but jeez, Elder Mireles and Elder Danielson (who were one companionship) are both going to Manzanillo so either Elder Nichols or I have to take over their area, it´s going to be me now I decided, but there was confusion and later tension over that.
I just wrote like 15 minutes worth of what they did to piss me off, but I´ll just settle it that there were several annoyances this morning but I feel better after having written them, but I´m sure you really didn´t want to know.
Well we were supposed to baptise Jorge and his kids this week, but he REFUSES to believe in the Book of Mormon, we´ve explained it four times. We tell him where it came from how it got there, everything 4 weeks now. Now he comes on Sunday and the other Elder says ´The book of Mormon is more perfect than the Bible´ which is true. And Jorge, is jsut dumbfounded; ´How is that possible, have another book MORE PERFECT than the Bible´. He told us that yesterday and I said out loud. Jorge, we´ve talked about this 4 times... then I went on to ask what the problem was. He reads a chaper here and there, and is reading a little bit more, but it has to be for the wrong reasons. His intentions might be the problem. Telling you about my investigators helps me think, lol. Erika went to church 2 weeks ago, but her dad´s a JW (Jehovah´s Witness) or as we say here TJ (Testigo de Jehováh) and won´t let her go to church (supuestamente; supposedly) so that´s a problem and then we have other families that are AWESOME just wicked hard to find and bring to church. Lol
We´ll see what happens with Elder Perez, now.
Well I just saw that I have an hour already, I got distracted with Elder Holland's talk this last month, it was AWESOME! Testifying before the judgment bar of God of the divinity (think about that word for a minute) of the Book of Mormon.
Well I´m going to go take my laundry out of the chugga chugga (washing machine shaped like a soda can) which I put in there at 12:30, it´s not 3:30, I should probably get that.
To asnwer several questions, I HAVE written several letters, I just haven´t sent them...that´s the difficult part.
OH that will be AWESOME if I get to see them here soon, as in a picture I mean. Lol. Tell them I want a Christmas package. THEY CAN AFFORD IT! Lol, tell them I´ll do my best with the letters. Haha, I´m working on that. I still have the stuff I bought you I just have to send it, lol. Well off I go! Hopefully next will be better organized and writen, lol!
-Jake