Spiritual Gifts

Arrived Mar 13 2017

Love the family more than hearing about the late finishers. I was talking with my old companion Elder Laureano and looks like two of our investigators got/are going to be baptized. Its nice to hear after painstaking hours working with people and then leaving without seeing the end result. Eli Jimenez from Los Quemados and then Joelvi from the middle of nowhere in our area finally arrived at baptism!

 

The Navarrete Zone

In our week we had consejo where we went over some new rules and ways to help the zone and then the next day had a zone meeting. My companion told us about his life. He was a little rebellious before the mission and his parents really thought he had wasted his talents and didn’t come out to be anything great. He came on the mission just to follow his older brothers and to be obedient. When he was here he really had hard times but for the humility and prayer and fast he received his testimony. I love my comp. He is a funny, medio tigre, guatamalen and Im gonna miss him. The energy is decreasing a little bit but we should make it.

We had a lesson with Luis who wants to be baptized and we invited his niece to come as well. We contacted her one day and figured out they were related and put an appointment. IT was a typical good first lesson but then Saturday when we went  for the second appointment she never showed up. I guess her mother said not to listen to us. A little disappointing but she still has her book of moron to read. 

It feels like the bulk of our investigators are either older men or teenagers and their older parents. It has been interesting to see that the people who listen are these people. Its nice that they seem to be the more humble and not sucked up in the things of the world. 

Sunday we had just one investigator in church when Victor Cruz our 50 year old blood clot survivor drove up on a motorcycle. He has been super animated to come to church, he calls it "our church", and it made our week to see his son drive him up on a bright red super gato. The church was full this week. The ward has an initiative to invite friends and less actives to church and it has brought results. 

This current week is super busy but I'll let you guys know how it turns out.

I was thinking about spiritual gifts this week and something I hadn’t thought  of before. I used to think that spiritual gifts were only the ones that we feel we were born or natural had. I really liked in Doctrine and Covenants 46 it  talks about all the gifts. What I learned was that we should work to develop the gifts that we have weaknesses with. If somebody is really angry all the time they should ask for and work to develop the girft of charity. IF somebody has a hard time following living day prophets they should develop the gift to believe that Jesus is the Christ. To all is given a gift and he who asketh receiveth.

With love 

Elder A Sheffield

 

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