Week 21 - Hermosa Semana

January 9th, 2018

Familia y amigos!!

Quick random quote for your week I found: "the greatness of man is in the way, he meets the eternal everyday." -some apostle that I can't quite remember. (Quentin L. Cook, of the Quorum of the 12 Apostles, quoting Edmund Vance Cooke)

Our zone activity today- we played soccer, capture the flag with water balloons, and ate lots of ice cream! (which is the part featured)

This week was just the best! We worked on a lot of things this week and are finding lots of solutions to what we can do better for our area! One thing that I personally have been pretty frustrated with is contacting. We have so many people in our area and have so many people we could visit that I used to think why contact and have lots of new investigators if we don't even have time to visit them all? But this question was answered in district meeting last Monday when our district leader talked about how God is always preparing people to hear the gospel, and we need to be willing to open our mouths invite them to hear it, because how else are they going to hear about the true gospel that can bless their lives more than anything else? We always need to be searching and talking with people to find those who have been prepared. 

Yair has a baptismal date! And he also went to church Sunday for the first time! He is 12 years old and really timid but his older brother who is a member is really helping him adjust and want to go and keep learning. I have also seen a lot of progress with Roller, his older brother who was menos activos. He asked him if he has thought about a mission and he say yes he wants to go! So we are studying Preach My Gospel with him to help him start preparing. We have also seen a lot of progress with our other menos activo who we are working with, Alexander, who is really starting to want to have the spirit and apply the gospel in his life. AH the change is amazing! He also is thinking about a mission!!

We went to the temple today! AH man I love the temple so much. there is so much peace unlike anywhere else!

Something I learned this in my studies is about Christlike attributes and how to develop them. In Preach My Gospel there are 9, or maybe 10. But what I found after reading Ether 12:28 is that developing just three attributes will help us reach all of the rest of them: Faith, hope, and charity. And then I added developing all of these in the attitude of humility. It says in this verse that having these three traits leads us to ALL righteousness. So, developing more faith will lead us to be more obedient, and diligent in doing what God has asked us to do. To have more hope requires us to learn of God's plan and trust in it- more knowledge. Want more charity? We have to have more patience with others, study the Christlike life of Christ and have noble thoughts always of others--virtue! Really they all connect from faith, hope, and charity! And then trying to develop this with the right reason in mind, doing it because we love God and Christ and want to become more like Him.

I have learned a lot this week and have much to improve on, but I am grateful for the Atonement of Christ that allows us to keep trying over and over again. 

Hope you have a great week and always remember why you are here and what your purpose is. If you don't know, kneel down and ask your Father in heaven and he will let you know(:

LOVE YOU!

Hermana Briggs