Week 23: ¡ESCOGIDOS!
Holaaaaa everybody! How is it going back in the states!? Very weird to think you guys are cold and having snow and all because here I'm just dieing from the heat of the sun here!:) This week was amazing!!! Maybe the most successful week of my mission thus far.
We found 3 amazing people this week...who all now have a date to be baptized. Alicìa, Eduardo, and Pablo!!! All three are different people from different families and all...but the Lord has placed them each in the path of Elder Brunelli and I, and now we are teaching them. It has brought me a level of happiness I don't think Ive ever known before.
Last night I was thinking about what each of them have in common...and what brought each of them to find the missionaries in this moment of their lives. Of course the first thing is that God has prepared them for this moment in their lives...to truly have the chance to accept or reject His gospel. But, I realized what each of them have in common is that they each just have the DESIRE! That is at the start of everything we do in this life...and each of them just have a simple, innocent desire to learn more about their Savior Jesus Christ.
I think sometimes we think we will find our faith from some miraculous thing that happens in our life, but it hardly, if ever, is like that. The only way we ever find faith in this life, and actually improve and live the life that God has prepared for us, is if we just find the desire to grow closer to him. As a missionary I am doing all I can to "give my will to the Lord". It is a little different for me right now as a full-time missionary...but I would invite everyone, everywhere to do the same. Just do more of what He would do...in every moment, every day. You are either growing closer to, or further from, Jesus Christ. Whether you realize it or not. I know that if we just pray for the desire to grow closer to our Savior, we will find ourselves on the path to a better, happier life.
We aren't all born with the desire to do the will of God, but it is something that is possible for each and every one of us to have. I hope we can all just DESIRE more to be more Christ-like in our lives everyday. I love you all and hope you are all doing great!
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| Braxton and Elder Hamm were on splits together this week. |
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| Amazing picture of Braxton on the bridge they cross everyday from Delta Del Tigre. |
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| Its mosquito season in Uruguay!! |
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| A nice meal with his companion, Elder Burnelli. |
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| A beautiful rainbow over the church this week. |
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| Braxton only sent this picture to Schy...but it was too good not to post! ;) |
