Well the weeks just keep marching on just like the elders of
Ixhuatan ;D
Well its hot here but its nice this place is amazing!!
I have found a love for the people here in Ixhuatan that is amazing. the
people are always ready to share the gospel and always see us in the streets
and shout Elders you are awesome!!! man what a great feeling to yell back and
say We are just doing our best or thank you!! I love this work did you know
that? well if i didn't then why am i out here? I love serving the people here
and most of all I love my savior Jesus Christ and the chance I have to be his
servant is amazing! i wouldn't trade two years of schooling for two years of
walking!!!. Well this week was absolutely an amazing week. man it really was
let me tell you the walking here is amazing!!! nice blue skies plenty of air to
share. a nice sun to make it a nice day. Wait when the sun is out i really sort
of feel wet like it sort of rained but the ground is dry and its just me that's
wet. haha ya its been a hard working sweaty kind of week here in the town of
Ixhuatan, but i wouldn't trade this week for any week with snow or rain
haha.
Let me see this week was good because well we found a new
family well last Sunday we received a reference from a member tell us to go and
check out the situation see if this person wanted to hear our message. so we
went for it as daring as the two daring knights of Ixhuatan scouting out the
area making sure they could fight the devil right out of the person. haha we
went and contacted this person it was a girl 10 years of age. as we started the
mom came in and said can I come and sit in and listen. we said well no the
reference is only for her, NO! we said why not of course you can sit on down we
are about to invite the spirit in through prayer. and so we did she sat down in
offered the prayer and then the room was filled with the love of Christ. a nice
warm blanket well warm might not be he word for the heat there already was but
a nice feeling entered the room. and well we stated teach the Restoration of
the gospel of Jesus Christ and got to the Keystone of every lesson the Book Of
Mormon. we explained it was made here in the Americas. then the mom, Lida,
stepped in and said wait what? we said well it is about the people that lived
here in the Americas as i passed the Book to her and explained the history. She
said. I always wondered why the bible only talked about the people in
Jerusalem. DING DING DING!!! wow! we have the answer to your question. and well
we asked her to pray about the book if it is true. the next time we asked her
if she asked and she said, Yes this is the answer to my prayers and well what
else do you have for me? anyways she has a date for her baptism the 4th of May!
she was at church yesterday with her daughter and her 2 year old son, along
with 8 other investigators. anyways that was an amazing thing that happened the
other 8 are well 5 are a family that are planning to be baptized the 27th and
well two others are young men that just decided to show up at church and one is
a older woman that well got up in testimony meeting and bore her testimony!
Holy cow!!! what a great Week!!! I love this work!!! there are people coming
out and that want to learn. it is fantastic!!!
Well wow! i read an article in the March 2013 Ensign called
You are Free by Elder D. Todd Christofferson. Wow this is an amazing amazing
article. he tells us about his grandpa and his little band of sheep. he had a
ewe that he received from his friend that was a bit rebellious and well he had
tied her down but this time he had just had a rope around her neck because she
liked to leave so as he called his sheep in one night the sheep heard his voice
and recognized it and came like us to our masters voice. but the one was out
there still think it was roped down and so he walked and told her its OK you
aren't tied down you are free. I shared this in a family home evening in the
branch Tuesday and well it is true. I had some members share there experiences
on how following he savior has helped them. pretty soon we had a tear filled
group as we recognized how important it is to listen to the masters voice and
well we are free. we have agency we aren't tied down we can do so many things!!
what a wonderful night and a wonderful story. President Boyd K Packer said
this about following the master. “We are not obedient because we are
blind, we are obedient because we can see.” we need obedience in our lives just
like we heard President Monson speak on that marvelous talk of his. Obedience
is the answer to the call of our master. So let us be obedient. We can do it i
just starts by answering the call of the master he stands waiting for us in all
things. He is calling us to come follow him., Now let us answer and follow our
loving Brother and Master Jesus Christ. in 2 Nephi 25:26 it says, "And we talk of Christ, we rejoice in Christ, we
preach of Christ, we prophesy of Christ, and we write according to
our prophecies, that our children may know to what source they may
look for a remission of their sins". We talk of Christ and rejoice in
him always and we answer the call to come unto him. as it says in the seminary
song, "come unto him he´s meek and humble and lonley of heart come unto
him. or as Elder Patrick Kearon says "Come unto the only One who can heal,
and you will find peace."
Lets us All have a wonderful week! Just know that our Savior
loves each of us and will always love us. Have a great Week!!! I will for sure
just a sweat one haha
Elder Jaymes Monson
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