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Week of Miracles!!!
Dallas
says I gotta step up my game on the home stretch (although I consider the home
stretch the last four or five months), so I promise to try to be better in my
emails . . .
Hot
diggidy dang! It was a tiring week!!! We are seeing soooo many miracles here! I learned something this week. I think little things I do cause me to be
distracted. Little jokes and songs and
stuff like that and so I think sometimes I’m not quite as close to the Spirit
as I should be . . .
The Mission is basically just a huge repentance process.
. . Haha. I learned this week a lot
about "line upon line, precept upon precept". Let me preach a little bit.
I
think it’s funny how people complain how they want some answer to some great
question but they don’t even study the basics.
We want to know the biggest, bestest secrets that exist, but we don’t
care to push through 2nd Nephi and REALLY try to understand Isaiah’s prophecies. The Lord can’t give us more knowledge or
blessings until we show that we are ready and worthy to receive more. I can’t gain a greater knowledge of the Gospel
until I search more and until I am more obedient. If the Lord sees that I can’t be obedient to
little things, why would he give me some calling where I have to be more
obedient than I am capable of being? So,
in order to receive greater blessings, we have to be ready to make greater
sacrifices. We have to be willing to
change. Even the little things. "If the Savior stood beside me would I
do/say the things I do/say?" We
have so much that the Lord expects of us, but he won’t ask us to do something
knowing that we will fail and then our condemnation will be greater. The Lord has to trust us. And we have to help him do that.
That
was my lesson this week =)
This
week, we met a family of five. Adrian
and Celia are the parents and Izabel is the daughter. I will focus on these three because the others
aren’t of Baptismal age. Adrian and
Celia lost their house . . . Today. But
when we started teaching them, Adrian got a job out of nowhere and a new house
to rent. #BLESSINGSOFTHEGOSPEL Ever since they started trying to stop smoking,
they have started receiving lots of blessings like that. They want to be Baptized A LOT and went to
church on Sunday, but they need to get married and Celias record to work and
all that is in Ceará, another state so it might take a while. Family SUPER legit and they make us feel
special because they just look at us and listen to us as if we were the
greatest blessing that they have ever received . . . I LOVE THEM!!!! Pray for the marriage to go through soon okay?
A
woman named Neide also went to church with her daughter, Gilamara, and they
want to be Baptized this Saturday. They
even are gonna come back from Gilmara’s school early on Thursday just so that
we can prepare them more for their Baptism =)
João
Victor (the kid we Baptized two weeks ago) has a little brother named Diego who
went to church who wants to be Baptized this Saturday as well =)
A
woman in our ward and neighbor of all the people previously mentioned has a
daughter named Thayna that is going to be Baptized this Saturday as well!
There
is another kid that lives on that same street named Micon. He wants to be Baptized this Saturday as well!
Basically,
we might have five or six Baptisms this next week!!! So pray for all of them okay???
Our
Zone finished this week with six Baptisms which puts us at nine in the month .
. . Still not enough but we are improving!!! Our Zone is getting more excited and really
looking for those ELECTS more now. I
think that is one of our biggest problems. Working with people who don’t progress. So we talked a lot about that in our Zone
Meeting. I think it helped a lot. Don’t waste time with people who want nothing!
Seek the ELECT!!!!
Well,
I gotta go. I LOVE YOU ALL!!!!!!!!!! Be good, be safe, write lots. Pray for my investigators and my ZONE!!!!!!!!
Love,
Elder Dylan Miles Jensen
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