10 ¶And
it came to pass, as Jesus sat at meat in the house, behold, many
publicans and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples.
11 And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto his disciples, aWhy eateth your Master with publicans and sinners?
12 But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick.
13 But go ye and learn what that meaneth, aI bwill have cmercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to dcall the erighteous, but sinners to frepentance.
Man.... I received some horrible news this week....
Steve
Nash has a broken fibula!!!??? It can´t be? Well, it looks like the
lakers are going to start losing here for the next couple of games. Im
sure they have no idea what to do now that their star player in hurt. I
sure hope they play atleast decent without Steve. But I do have to say
that I LOVE the shirts that you sent me. "TIME TO GET NASHTY!!" haha
This week was a pretty good week. We taught A LOT OF
LESSONS! I just have to say that we taught around 30 lessons this week.
And that is pretty good seeing that we worked about 3 full days in this
area. We are super excited because of the cool people we have found.
One day, we received a reference and so we went looking for the house in
the morning. We had the address Aldanato Alvarez "2"..... And i was
like.... im pretty sure there isn´t a house number "2"... but hey, we
went looking anyways. We got to the street and we found some apartments
numbered 1,2,3,and 4.... so im guessing apartment number "2" would be
the address we are looking for. we knocked there..... but no one
answered. And just how it says in preach my gospel, we knocked on their
neighbors houses. All of the doors opened up, and all of them invited us
back to share more about the plan of salvation with them.
Then during that night, we went to another
reference. She wasn´t there, but her mom was. We talked with her for
about 15 minutes and then I invited her to be baptized. she said ok!
haha man, I think it is really cool that we can be standing talking to
someone at their gate, barely seeing their face, and then after 15
minutes of talking to them about Christ, the Spirit testifies to them
that the things we tell them are true, and then they want to get
baptized.....
Im actually thinking right now, and i think it is
amazing that I can speak in Spanish.... That is a cooolll amazing
blessing that I will never be able to return to my heavenly father.
So yeah. we met a lot of cool people this week.
We
also had 2 investigators go to the conference and it was awesoem!
Sergio and Natividad went. Sergio is the dad from a member family here
and he is the only person that is not baptized. His mom is SUPER
evangelist and so he has a little fear of being a mormon because he
knows taht his mom wont like it at all..... But we are working with
that.
We also had our stake conference this week and Elder Spannaus and Elder Ceballos talked during it.
Elder Ceballos told a cool story that I want to share with you all.
Once upon a time there were some small duckling friends.
One day they all decided that they would take the whole day to learn how
to fly. So they went to the park. In the first 10 minutes, some of them
could get off the ground a couple of feet. after 30 minutes most of
them were fluttering around. and after an hour, they all were flying
brilliantly, doing loops, flips, and showing off their new aquired
skill.... at the end of the day..... they all WALKED home....
What is the moral of the story? We as people go to
church. we go to a devotional. we go to EFY. we listen to a talk online.
we listen to MoTab. We get spiritually uplifted for a couple 10
minutes. After 30 minutes a couple of ideas come to our mind of how we
can change and be better. After an hour, we all are feeling like there
is nothing bad in the whole wide world and that we can conquer it all.
We know that God loves us, and that he wants the best for us. We know
that Christ suffered for us and died so that we could live.....
But, after the conference ends, after the video is
over, after the music stops, after church, we go back to being our
normal duckling selves who dont know how to fly.
I
know, with all my heart that God lives and that he loves us. I know
that Christ came and suffered so that we wont have to suffer. I know
that WE CAN CHANGE. WE CAN PERSEVERE. So be like the duckling who
learned how to fly and flew home. not like the duckling who walked.
I love you all and I hope you are all well.
Con muchísimo amor y caridad,
Elder Gray
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