Week #79: Thee Elder Moreira
Yo yo yo yo everybody! Whats crackalackin?! Man it was a good week! We were able to just work and not stress about other miscellaneous stuff! Here in Argentina we haven't had much time to go out and just find new people to teach, but this week helped us get back on our feet a little!
Elder Holder and I did some splits with some of the elders in our zone and it was a blast, like always. We also finally got an AC unit in our house!! Its the first time Ive had AC in my mission! (: So yall already know it was a memorable week...:)
This week during some of our splits, I was working with and Elder Moreria from Ecuador. He just barley got to the mission about a month ago, but already is a super mature and awesome missionary. He's a little older than me, and has gone through a lot in his life. We were just clapping at some doors and trying to contact for awhile, and we had a woman come out of one of the houses and she was super receptive and told us about a lot of the trials she's had in her life. Her husband died 3 years ago, and just 4 months ago her daughter died. She said she believed in God, but that she didn't "have faith like us". She said many missionaries from various churches had talked to her and told her she needed to have more faith and just trust God that all would work out for her good, and that she always had tried to develop more faith, but she just had too many unanswered questions and doubts about it all
Elder Moreira told her it wasn't a question of her faith, rather it was a question of her understanding and knowledge of Gods plan for her. He started going off teaching her and I felt like for a minute he was teaching me too! I think we often beat ourselves up for not having enough faith because we don't understand everything perfectly, but often times, it doesn't have much to do with just our pure belief in God, but rather our understanding of Him and His character. As we study the scriptures more and seek the answers to our questions, our faith will improve because we understand who God really is and we get to know Him better!!
