Hello
It has been a while since I have written (first week something actually happened). I hope you enjoy this.
---New area---
I have been transferred to Los Laurels: my first area with more than a 100 people in sacrament meeting every week. We have a pretty large area. Lots of mountains and hiking up and down. I live in a guarded neighborhood far from most of the members which means I have to walk a lot. I am going to get a lot of exercise
---New Companion---
Elder Terrazas is from Bolivia. He only has 7 weeks in Honduras and makes me feel old. I have to teach him about things in Honduras (vocabulary, food - apparently tortillas don't exist in Bolivia) but not so much. He has enough time so that isn't a problem. This is my first time being older than my companion and first time having more time than him. This transfer is going to be a learning experience for sure.
---Choir---
We had a special YSA Sunday here (ysa wards still don't exist here). We had to sing in the choir which thankfully only had to sing one song. It was fun to spend time with people closer to my age for once and see how they are.
---New Church Building---
We have a small but 2 story church building that isn't even in my area. It's 30 min walking or 5 min by bus, similar to walking to school. With all the physical activity that I do here on the mission walking to school is nothing more than prep for the mission.
---Old Investigators---
Turns out all the baptisms that fell through in Tiloarque have all been baptized. They just got baptized later or in other areas. Good to know that the transfer without baptism actually had something come out of it.
---Spiritual Thoughts---
“As we leave the temple, we find that the problems and challenges we laid down at the entry are still there. We are obliged to shoulder them again. They haven’t changed, but gratefully, our time in the temple has changed us. Our perspective is surer and more accurate. We now see that what had seemed overwhelming and impossible can, with the Lord’s help, find resolution, and we are more certain of His help.”
- D. Todd Christofferson
I really liked this quote taken from the Puerto Rico temple dedication. I still remember my temple visit in December and it has helped me a lot here. I constantly remember the feelings that I felt and the personal revelation that I received.
8 Behold, will ye reject these words? Will ye reject the words of the prophets; and will ye reject all the words which have been spoken concerning Christ, after so many have spoken concerning him; and deny the good word of Christ, and the power of God, and the gift of the Holy Ghost, and quench the Holy Spirit, and make a mock of the great plan of redemption, which hath been laid for you?
9 Know ye not that if ye will do these things, that the power of the redemption and the resurrection, which is in Christ, will bring you to stand with shame and awful guilt before the bar of God?
10 And according to the power of justice, for justice cannot be denied, ye must go away into that lake of fire and brimstone, whose flames are unquenchable, and whose smoke ascendeth up forever and ever, which lake of fire and brimstone is endless torment.
11 O then, my beloved brethren, repent ye, and enter in at the strait gate, and continue in the way which is narrow, until ye shall obtain eternal life.
12 O be wise; what can I say more?
I really like this message from Jacob. He talks of how rejecting the gospel is really a foolish decision and it isn't wise. He compares being wise to being a saint. This quote helps me to know that the covenant path is the logical solution to life's problems. The right decisions are at the same time the most wisest decisions. It gives me the perspective that sin is just a bad idea. This is taken from the last part of one of the sermons of Jacob and teaches me that the gospel is just about being wise in your decisions.
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