This week was pretty exhausting. We worked to the bone, and Sunday morning we went by all of our investigators and not one went to church. Thankfully, one of the members brought a friend to church. We taught him a little after church, and he accepted everything pretty well. So that´s good.
My new companion is cool. He´s from Honduras, and he speaks English bascially fluently, but we only talk in English when we joke around. On Friday we had our multi-zone conference, and we (the zone leaders) had to prepare training. I think it turned out fine. I talked a little bit about Capitan Moroni. In Alma 48, it talks about Moroni, that if all men had been, and were, and ever would be like him, that the powers of hell would have been shaken forever, and that the devil would never have power over the hearts of men. So we talked about some of the things he did and was, how he pointed to Christ by the way he lived his life, and how we can apply some of these things to our missionary work. For instance, the people of Moroni had great faith in the Lord.
My new companion is cool. He´s from Honduras, and he speaks English bascially fluently, but we only talk in English when we joke around. On Friday we had our multi-zone conference, and we (the zone leaders) had to prepare training. I think it turned out fine. I talked a little bit about Capitan Moroni. In Alma 48, it talks about Moroni, that if all men had been, and were, and ever would be like him, that the powers of hell would have been shaken forever, and that the devil would never have power over the hearts of men. So we talked about some of the things he did and was, how he pointed to Christ by the way he lived his life, and how we can apply some of these things to our missionary work. For instance, the people of Moroni had great faith in the Lord.
15 And this was their faith, that by so doing God would prosper them in the land, or in other words, if they were faithful in keeping the commandments of God that he would prosper them in the land; yea, warn them to flee, or to prepare for war, according to their danger;
16 And also, that God would make it known unto them whither they should go to defend themselves against their enemies, and by so doing, the Lord would deliver them; and this was the faith of Moroni, and his heart did glory in it; not in the shedding of blood but in doing good, in preserving his people, yea, in keeping the commandments of God, yea, and resisting iniquity.
Here we see that the people had faith that God desired that they prospered, that he would warn them what to do, and where to go. I talked about applying this to how we work, where we work, and having the faith that God wants us to find the elect and is always trying to help us. I hope the training went over well.
Today we had to come down to the capital, because tomorrow we´ll have the self-sufficiency course and the temple session. So we kind of wandered around, me and the other Americans going home. The bought a bunch of fake stuff, like ties and wallets and belts. I didn´t see anything "Brazillian" enough to be a cool souvenir. But we did go to a "famous" pizza/churrasco buffet that I´ve been hearing about my whole mission. This is going to be a good week. I love you guys. Don´t know if the next time you hear from me it´ll be an email or if we´ll be huggin and crying, so...
Elder Blaylock
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