Good
Afternoon all! Espero que todo esten bien por alli! Truthfully, I'm
not totally sure what to write about this week. There are tons of stuff I
can include but to tell the truth of it all this week was for sure tough. Do
you guys ever have those? A week you usually go in pretty confident in
that this week is the week and nothing is going to stop me from my goals and my
plans this week. Yeah, my week basically said no to all of that especially by
the end of the week where a woman that accepted a baptismal date said that
she'd rather not come to church because she has another that she goes to.
Another person also said that she'd go without fail but dang, nope. Turns out
she's on baptismal date too. Shoot right?
But
don't any of you worry just yet! Because many cool things did happen and
i'm just capping!
First,
we got to go through a little jungle to get to one of our friends named Maikel
who has tons of questions for us and wants to learn more and has already
accepted a soft baptismal invitash but has a really hard time coming
to church! Please pray for Maikel! We then had one other woman who usually
doesn't like us very much, tell us that she would join us for church in a super
happy mood, but she never showed up..she must've had an emergency.. She'll
definitely need some prayers too! We had this awesome
opportunity this week to have an exchange with some of the zone leaders,
this week and i think the highlight was when we all woke up that morning and
the power had been out all night so it was super hot and the freezers from the
fridges that we kept had all melted and some there was an awesome river in the
apartment and the dueno (owner) totally got so mad at us, but i was gone before
anything happened...prayers for the zone leaders.
The
highlight of the week was probably the baptism for a cute little girl named
Massiel, we got a few members of the small branch to come, even the child's
mother! Unfortunately the mother of this child didn't come to the
confirmation and the receiving of the holy ghost...next time i guess...I
think she might need a prayer as well.
So
yes, this is all a lot and didn't really satisfy the desires that my companion
and I were hoping to see, but my brothers and sisters, there are still
blessings to be had. As I titled this week, I thought long and hard on how I
wanted to present all of these things, and as it turns out, there is no way I
can cover up any of it, it's just the way it is and how it turned out. At times
it's hard, I'll go to work hard and do my best, but these things still
happen...what happened? Did I not have enough faith? Did I not pray enough? How
could this be?
That's
what I'm just barely starting to understand. I'm out here, speaking by the
power of God, teaching and testifying, converting souls to Christ. But
sometimes...sometimes there are just other people that are more ready to
listen, learn, and change. No amount of godly power that I'm set apart will
break the gift that Heavenly Father gave to each of us called agency. It was a
precious gift from the beginning, not just precious, but powerful. As a
missionary the hardest thing that I must learn is to love the people. I
definitely went into this whole thing thinking that this part would be the
most easy, turns out it is not. Accepting the differences in everybody, and
their agency, and loving each of them with a Christlike love as his example
shows is a difficult thing. Which means I need your help. Please pray for me
that I may be able to love each child of God on this island and that I can
expect only the best from each of them.
It
really was a good week, but this week is gonna be better. Maybe, I mean I had
taco bell this week and I thought I died which means it did its job.
I
love you all, and miss each of you!
Til
next time, Elder Jorgensen
