This week was pretty great! we worked really hard, prayed and
fasted our hearts out to have more success! We had five investigators in
the church yesterday! And of course Rocio! but that was actually kind
of depressing and hard on us because we were waiting on 15 great
investigators to come!!! but only 5 came but that's still pretty good!
One of them was Gloria, who we have been teaching for like two months
now.. and shes just had some bad experiences in other churches and so
shes having a hard time accepting to be baptized and we have tried
EVERYTHING! a couple of days ago, we set her up an account on familysearch.com
and she thought that that was just awesome! we taught her the
importance of family search and finding family names and taking them to
the temple. she says shes wants her ancestors baptized but that's where I
got really confused because she wants them baptized, but she doesn't want
to be baptized herself..? but anyways I searched our family name and
all I could find was Kent Rial Berry so not sure if we haven't set that
up for our family yet or what but I wanted to see our family tree but
couldn't it!!
The sun was just beating down on us this
week!! Sweat was getting in my eyes, hah we probably walked 30 miles
total this week! but anyways with all the walking I had a lot of thoughts
that came to mind!! and one I was pondering, all the great things
that I've learned from you mom and dad, grandpa and grandma berry and
Parrish! The scripture from Enos 1:3, "Behold, I went to hunt beasts in
the forests; and the words which I had
often heard my father speak concerning eternal life, and the joy of the
saints, sunk deep into my heart" and I don't know it seems like the
things that I've learned from grandpas or grandmas mom or dad have sunk
deep into my heart! but what made me think of all this was on Wednesday
it was just really tough, nobody was opening up doors to let us in, it
was burning hot, I was thirsty... I thought about a time after wrestling
practice, when me and uncle Ty were drilling, he told me that if you go
hard now, if you shoot shoot shoot and keep shooting, your not gonna be
tired when the match comes! and your gonna be able to shoot and keep
shooting during the match! And that is kinda like now on the mission!
If I go hard, if I do everything I can, if I'm exactly obedient now on
the mission, I'm not gonna tire in the gospel when its the post mission
life and when the times get hard. so that's what gives me motivation
everyday to go hard because I DO NOT want to drop out of the gospel
later on in life! And I know that the mission can change me as long as
I'm doing whats right 100% all the time!
Thank
you for all of your examples! Me and elder Echeverry are gonna keep
workin hard and hopefully we can get the rest of those investigators to
church this next Sunday! I love and miss you all!
ELDER BERRY
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