Mon., 8/20/2018 (Luque)
Well we have had a good week here in Bella Vista! They just speed on by! I had a few pictures of the week, but the computers here aren't letting us load pictures. But oh well, next week! For now, here's a quick summary of the week!
We had a baptism yesterday! From last week's pictures, the guy in the hoodie at church was Matias Gimenez,who just got baptized! He is 17 years old and friends with a few of the youth who are members. Heis also neighbors with the Familia Gimenez (not his relatives hahaha). It was a great service and he was so excited to get baptized!
We have been working a lot with members,and trying to have more lessons with members present! We are also planning to start an activity called Noche de Barrio (Ward Night) which will have people playing sports, having classes of English and cooking and such, watching movies of the church, etc. Honestly, it's going to be such a help, because activities make life 98473654256234 times more fun and for fellow-shipping it'll help a lot.
If you're wondering how I personally am, I'm doing good, still getting up at 6:30 a.m., doing my exercises, and just doing as much as we can until 9 or 9:30 p.m. or so, then honestly trying to stay awake long enough to write in my journal! hahaha We just get so tired at the end of the day!
It's pretty hype though, Elder Alvarado and I are just trying to make the most of our time together as companions. We have a few more people who we are hoping that will soon be baptized; a couple of them really are ready, just need answers to their prayers that the church is true and such and they'll be good! So just be praying for Martin, John Fitzgerald, Santiago, Nayeli, Vicky and I could go on for a while but they are some of the people we are helping right now that are so close! All I know, is that what I'm doing here is super important,and God loves all of his children one by one! Whether the Paraguayans, Americans, or wherever else, He loves us all
Thanks for all the prayers and emails! Have a good week!
As missionaries we love the people we serve we work our hardest to bring the truth of God's love to people we teach and we encounter and we can give everyone we know our families our missionary companion and our friends the eternal joy of our testimony. Faith gives us the happiness and the eternal joy to bring the blessings of the gospel of Jesus Christ to others and to share the message of Gods love and the truth to all / everyone in our mission. Faith is defined again, here is the definition faith
ReplyDelete"Many believer's feed themselves on what God hasn't done. When I dwell on what hasn't happened, I create the atmosphere for the spirit of offense to arise and to thrive. When I dwell on what hasn't happened, I legitimize unbelief. I live with a sense of justification, for not believing God.
Faith in the purest sense is the ceasing of resistance. even when there's no physical evidence, when the other evidence is present. Not feeding ourselves on what God hasn't done Faith in it's purest form is the absence of resistance
Heaven is a place where everyone is celebrated, some are more honored but everyone is celebrated. All men and all women shall be judged on the light which they have received. Heaven is a permissible culture. God's nature is eternally permissible. These statements protect us from credit.
Faith in the purest sense is the ceasing of resistance, even when there's no physical evidence, when the other evidence is present. Not feeding ourselves on what God hasn't done. Faith in it's purest form is the absence of resistance. Faith doesn't deny a problems existence, it denies it's influence. He or she was someone whom aridity and desolation never disturbed for he or she had a deeply rooted, and a vigorous faith.
Now we can act as we have always dreamed. Now we can act as we have always been. Now we can step into the light and gather the sunlight instead of blocking out our possibilities. Instead of blocking out our joy. Variety will bloom in/under the sun. We can show off our best, we can enjoy other people's gifts. We can blossom where we stand upon the joy that faith provides us. Upon the joy that faith inherently has, which blossoms the entire field of flowers."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDYaxabUfkA - The definition of Faith
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