Libertadores - Week 4

Venezuela

Dear Family,

This week I was reading in Alma 44 and it's when Moroni traps Zerahemna with his army and tries to make him swear an oath to never come back to battle against the Nephites again. Zerahemna refuses because he didn't want to make an oath that he knew he was going to break. So they started fighting again until Zerahemna realized that he had two choices: make the oath or die. He chose to make the oath. And I think it's the same with investigators, there are a lot of them that think they will not be able to keep the commandments and that's why they don't want to make any promises, but the baptismal covenant includes promises on our part. Our goal is helping them to have the faith to make those promises with God. 

One spiritual experience we had this week was we went to visit a Venezuelan family that just moved here, they are active members. It was obvious that they had once been somewhat wealthy people for the way that they behaved and spoke, but now they are living in a small rented apartment, looking for work. We read Alma 26 that talks about being patient in afflictions and receiving success. Their eyes were filled with tears, and we hope we were able to help them at least with having more spiritual strength.

Have a great week, sorry I didnt take this pictures this week :/

Elder Harris