Haha, I want to cry and laugh really hard when I write that title. those who know me should laugh and not the other one, haha.
We had zone conference and I got to have a really cool interview with Presidente Nuñez. It was concentrated revelation packed into a few minutes- really powerful. I told him about some problems that were happening with other missionaries, and he told me to continue being a leader and not to give in to the easier thing, which is to do what everyone else is doing. He told me to read Doctrine and Covenants 121, and to listen to Jeffrey R. Holland to learn how to speak and reprender in a Christlike way. I left the zone conference feeling very inspired and invigorated and excited to do the work. I felt really good. The next day, we were about to leave the pension after studies in the afternoon (when the rest of Argentina takes the siesta) and I felt like something miraculous was coming; I told Elder Bills we better prepare ourselves for something really awesome. We walked around and did a lot of work, Elder Bills got an impression that we should change our plans and go to a different area to find a certain investigator. On the way, we saw this whole family sitting outside a kiosco sipping mate- we´d already talked to the mom and the daughter passing by, the mother had told us that she was raised Catholic but hadn´t been to church because she didn´t believe everything they taught. They were sitting outside and it was loud and there weren´t seats to fit us all around the table but we decided to sit ourselves down and have a lesson. It was as if the outside noise dimmed, the spirit made a nice little atmosphere around us as we testified of the glorious truths of the restoration. They accepted the light hungrily and earnestly, it was so exciting- we gave them all copies of El Libro de Mormón, they went around in a circle reading the challenge issued in Moroni capitulo 10... It was a very special, holy spirit that I, and I´m certain that they, felt. It was very exctiting as a missionary to get them all reading El Libro de Mormón. We found a very large family here in the plata, and I have a feeling that something very wondrous and special is beginning. At the end, they gave a humble and powerful prayer, and without us even mentioning a return appointment they prayed that ´these special servants whom Thou hast sent will come again, so we can have more wonderful experiences like this¨(you´re all welcome, I had to translate that from how it was in my mind). We set a return cita (appointment) for viernes (friday) and left.
Thursday, it was hot and because of miscommunication (Our celular fue robado (stolen)) we walked a long way to an almuerzo and they didn´t have it ready for us, we were walking back from that and I started to get this strange deja vu feeling, when suddenly I was sprawled out on the floor. Attack of the air conditioning box sticking out from the wall!... I hit my head pretty soundly, and apparently I didn´t talk to Elder Bills for a half hour after getting up. After a while I had to sit down and I was feeling pretty queasy, figured it was best just to get to the pension and rest. Well, I rested, and on viernes I was getting pretty excited to get out- Elder Bills gave me a blessing, I was pretty sure I´d be all healed and stuff. I got all our stuff ready to go, we were praying as we were going out the door, and the spirit said to me very clearly that ´No debemos ir.¨ (We shouldn´t go)
Man, that was hard. We had a ton of super promising work, I pleaded with Heavenly Father, telling Him how deeply I wanted to get to work, but I accepted His will as being loving and wise and best for me and everyone else. The same thing happened on sabado(saturday). Basically we used this time to- well, my head hurt and I mostly slept. When I was awake and bored out of my mind we listened to talks.
This time has been super milagroso para mi. Every moment I´ve had to submit my will to His, and I´ve received a whole ton of very special and sacred revelation.
You may be wondering if we communicated with anybody, well we tried (the other Elders broke their phone so nobody had one) and weren´t able to get in contact with anybody until last night. So Pres. y Hna. Nuñez are informed. I´ve been trying to get up and do things, not too crazy, I listen to the spirit (sometimes to make sure I take to sincere and earnest prayer) and that seems to work out.
Actually this time has been very special. It´s been a great opportunity to develop more faith in Christ and become more like Him, believe it or not- a bunch of time and all I could really do was just pray in behalf of others, I gained a greater love and understanding of those around me.
It´s kinda a miracle that I´m not having too big of a headache right now. It´s like, yesterday before church I felt great, once we got to church it hurt again- sometimes the Lord gives us just enough to do exactly what we need.
I love the Lord. I feel strongly impressed to bear my testimony that HE LIVES, He lives who once was dead, He who suffered in Gethsemane, our Brother and our Savior, He lives. The chains of death and hell are no more; truly, because of Him we can live and receive newfound strength every day, He opened the way for us to overcome our fallen state and become as Gods through constant progress along the covenant pathway. Of Him were all the scriptures written, and all truth testifies that He lives.
I may not have very powerful words to express my love and veneration for that Son of God, but the testimony that I have received of Him gives me strength to overcome my pride (I believe anyone who has spent any amount of time with me should be impressed by the significance of that statement) and to endure every earthly pain or suffering- not only to endure it, but to continue rejoicing in my heart. My testimony of Jesus Christ is like a warm, invincible and peaceful happiness deep in the core of me- I have noticed that no matter what other spirits or influences surround me, no matter how dark or loud or hateful or destructive or seeping black, that this comforting assurance stays within me unmoved.
I would urge you all to ponder your testimony of Christ, and then act as the Spirit suggests.
I also strongly encourage that you read D&C 121-123, the sections of revelation that the prophet Joseph Smith received in the ´temple´of Liberty Jail. These sections are filled with a heavenly and beautiful light.
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