Humility

 Welp my weekly emails are now turning into Christ-like attributes that I have devoloped through out the weeks, and this week was.....Humility

Now, after proceeding to have one of the greatest weeks of my life last week, 3 baptisms, an amazing sunday, all was looking perfect out here en La Florida. Then the reality of everything set in... and for the next 7 days, me and my companion proceeded to contact over 215 people, of those 215 people, I think maybe 20 of them stopped to even talk to us. Of those 20 people that stopped to talk to us, about 10 of them were Jehova's Witnesses and the only 10 were super nice catholics that didn't care about our message but were just really nice. The people literally like wouldn't even acknowledge us. We would go "Hey how are you doi..." and we would recieve "busy dont talk to me" so yes it was a very humbling experience to say the least. We literally went to contact a lady and we said "hey were the missionaries from the church of jesus christ!" And she hit us with "que bueno me alegro mucho, chao" which basically translates in english to "hey i dont care at all please stop bothering me, see you never". Me and my comp just started laughing because we were just in such shock. Like i dont know what was more disrespectful, Jayson Tatum dunking on Lebron in game 7 of the ECF or that lady saying that to us fr fr

I guess what was kinda the hardest part about it is that me and Elder Barrìa have kinda been going crazy these last 2 months, finding like crazy, seeing some nutty miracles, that it almost felt normal to just find, find, find so easily. But this week was a big reminder that EVERYTHING that I have accomplished, all the baptisms, all the miracles I have seen in my mission, is because of the Lord. It's a really humbling experience to know that I really am nothing as a missionary without the Lords help and that I haven't accomplished anything on my mish, but that the Lord has accomplished his work THROUGH me

Obviously its never a missionaries dream to bring 0 people to church, but sometimes it happens. Sometimes it's a good moment to reflect and learn. I'm, nautrally speaking, a very competitive, prideful person not gonna cap. I like being the best at every thing i do and when i'm not the best, I can get very frustrated and I just try to work until I'm the best  Now that may be a very good trait to have in the world, but as a missionary that's not gonna get you very far, and boy I have learned that. So lots of learning and reflecting this week, but I know that me and my comp will continue to be blessed as we keep being obedient and diligent.

Haven't shared a scripture in a bit in my emails, like to keep em entertaining, i lowkey don't read the scriptures in my friends emails haha, but this scripture actually helped me a lot this week, its D&C 123:17 "Therefore, dearly beloved brethren, let us cheerfully do all things that lie in our power; and then may we stand still, with the utmost assurance, to see the salvation of God, and for his arm to be revealed." I kept repeating this to my comp all week because i love how it says let us do everything WITHIN our power Cheerfully. So you best believe me and my comp were getting rejected all week with the biggest smile on our face. We can't control who decides to accept our message, but we can control how we react 

To sum this email up, elder clouse is trying to say in the most humble way possible, that he is now humble...i will now proceed to study this attribute again

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