Welp, ladies a gentleman i will start this email out with a scripture...D&C 3:3 "Remember, remember that it is not the work of God that is frustrated, but the work of men;"
Now i start with this scripture because it helped remind me how human i am. Because boy oh boy this week was a very frustrating week. It seemed as if every time something good would happen, something 10x worse would follow. I'll explain in a bit...
But to start we had our last zone conference with President Ferrizo. Bro was giving us some last words and it was really powerful. It's crazy to think that my next zone conference will be with a new mission president, kinda nuts ngl. But i think the greatest part about zone conference is seein all the boys back together. Zone conference always be a mad vibe and always just puts me in such a good mood
But ya back to reality as eminem would put it. I don't know what is happening in our area but it feels as if someone put a curse on us (cough cough mom). Everytime we find a crazy miracle, Satan just smacks us in the face. For example, on Tuesday we found this ELECT lady. Like fr fr, no problems with the word of wisdom and she had a crazy necesidad and we put her on date. We passed by the next day and she told us she would never get baptized if she had to pay tithing because the Jehova's Witnesses told her that it wasn't a commandment. So for like 3 days straight we tried explaining and teaching about tithing and invited her to pray and everything but then we ended up giving up because her heart was too closed. It was really sad because she really needs the gospel but the Jehova's Witnesses just be out here spreading false doctrine to people
Then on Sunday morning we went to pass by some of our recent converts to help get them to church and 3 of them BLOCKED us. Like literally out of nowhere just blocked us on Whatsapp. Me and my comp were so confused because we passed by all week and everything was going good and then just like out of nowhere 3 of our converts just blocked us and we didn't bring a single recent convert to church. It honestly made me so sad because nothing makes me happier then seeing recent converts grow in the gospel and going to church so it was a sad moment for me. And then Dilan, the kid who was supposed to get baptized yesterday, ya well his Dad slept in and didn't bring his son to church for his baptism. Everything wrong that could have happened on Sunday, well happened, asi que we are vibin our here in La Florida
But i guess i did have a pretty cool experience, because while partaking of the sacrament, ngl i was kinda lettin god know how i was feeling. I dont know if i was frustrated, sad, upset, or confused, but i just remember feeling all of those at once. And i remember as i was sitting there partaking of the sacrament i got a feeling that just said "but christ overcame all of that", and although my feelings didn't go away, it just made me ponder and think about how grateful we need to be because we have our Savior. We can be certain we will all have trials, but we can also be certain we never have to go through them alone. So even though it was a kinda a rough week, you just gotta learn
Love yall
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