One word to sum up this week, exhausted. I'm tired. I feel like I've hit a "mid mission crisis". I still love being a missionary and we're working like crazy but I'm tired ALL the time. I'm even eating super healthy. But that's okay. I'd rather be tired at the end of a successful day than bored!!
The highlight of this week was that we've been teaching a single mom named Dulce. She has two kids named Genesis and Javier. Genesis has 8 years and Javier has 13. We had only been teaching Dulce and her daughter because Dulce said that her son was really closed to God and stuff. But this week we invited him to listen and we taught them the plan of salvation and he really liked it. All three of them accepted a baptismal date and they came to church this Sunday!! I have already seen a change in Dulce but especially in her son Javier. By the way, in Arizona this week it was fall break so in church we had about 200 gringos join us. Also today a gringo family invited us to a restaurant with them. It was super cool. Actually, they used to live in Centerville.... on 400 south..... in our ward!!!! They know the Shupes. They're the Pay family.
Anyway, in church a little American girl got up and bore her testimony in English and she said "I know that God..." and she sat thinking for a couple minutes and then she said "I know that God is good". I really liked that. I wasn't exactly the best Sunday school student, and I hardly went to seminary so I don't know a whole lot of doctrine. But I do know that God is good. I know that he loves us and wants whats best for us. This week I ponderized the scripture "But now, O Lord, thou art our Father; we are the clay, and thou our Potter; and we all are the work of thy hand". Isaiah 64:8. If we live a Christ centered life, God can take us and make us into works of art that we never dreamed possible. The future is as bright as your faith. Today is the day, go out and get it.
The highlight of this week was that we've been teaching a single mom named Dulce. She has two kids named Genesis and Javier. Genesis has 8 years and Javier has 13. We had only been teaching Dulce and her daughter because Dulce said that her son was really closed to God and stuff. But this week we invited him to listen and we taught them the plan of salvation and he really liked it. All three of them accepted a baptismal date and they came to church this Sunday!! I have already seen a change in Dulce but especially in her son Javier. By the way, in Arizona this week it was fall break so in church we had about 200 gringos join us. Also today a gringo family invited us to a restaurant with them. It was super cool. Actually, they used to live in Centerville.... on 400 south..... in our ward!!!! They know the Shupes. They're the Pay family.
Anyway, in church a little American girl got up and bore her testimony in English and she said "I know that God..." and she sat thinking for a couple minutes and then she said "I know that God is good". I really liked that. I wasn't exactly the best Sunday school student, and I hardly went to seminary so I don't know a whole lot of doctrine. But I do know that God is good. I know that he loves us and wants whats best for us. This week I ponderized the scripture "But now, O Lord, thou art our Father; we are the clay, and thou our Potter; and we all are the work of thy hand". Isaiah 64:8. If we live a Christ centered life, God can take us and make us into works of art that we never dreamed possible. The future is as bright as your faith. Today is the day, go out and get it.