Paramonga - Week 23

Tuvimos un BAUTISMO esta semana

Remember a few weeks ago when I said that a lady in the street told me I looked like Leonardo Decaprio? Well she got baptized this week, along with her two teenage kids.

One scripture that I've used a lot this week is Mosiah 23:

21 Nevertheless the Lord seeth fit to chasten his people; yea, he trieth their patience and their faith.

22 Nevertheless—whosoever putteth his trust in him the same shall be lifted up at the last day. Yea, and thus it was with this people.

Everyday there are trials of patience and faith. But our trust and our FAITH that he put in Christ is what brings us out of those trials with success.

This week we were teaching an investigator who is 19, we were about to say the opening prayer to start the lesson and we asked him if there were anything that we could ask for him in the prayer. His answer was a 10 minute vent about how he wanted to break up with his girlfriend but he didn't know how.

Pres Stauffer shared this quote in the last zone conference and I liked it.

Consider the following statement by Elder Dallin H. Oaks:

“[A person may have] a strong desire to be led by the Spirit of the Lord but … unwisely extends that desire to the point of wanting to be led in all things. A desire to be led by the Lord is a strength, but it needs to be accompanied by an understanding that our Heavenly Father leaves many decisions for our personal choices. Personal decision making is one of the sources of the growth we are meant to experience in mortality. Persons who try to shift all decision making to the Lord and plead for revelation in every choice will soon find circumstances in which they pray for guidance and don’t receive it. For example, this is likely to occur in those numerous circumstances in which the choices are trivial or either choice is acceptable.

“We should study things out in our minds, using the reasoning powers our Creator has placed within us. Then we should pray for guidance and act upon it if we receive it. If we do not receive guidance, we should act upon our best judgment. Persons who persist in seeking revelatory guidance on subjects on which the Lord has not chosen to direct us may concoct an answer out of their own fantasy or bias, or they may even receive an answer through the medium of false revelation” (“Our Strengths Can Become Our Downfall”  Ensign, Oct. 1994, 13–14).

Get ready for GENERAL CONFERENCE!!!

Hasta luego amigos

Elder Harris