Week #54: No me importan los numeros
¡Hola hola todos! ¿Como andan buena gente? Man these weeks are flying by here! Feels like every other day Im in here writing an emails to you guys. This week was super fun! We went up to an area called Bella Union to work with the elders out there. They're from our zone, but about a 2 hour bus ride away. It's an area right on the border of Brazil and Argentina. It was awesome to go up there and we even got to go into Brazil for lunch. We ate at this little restaurant that was just like a Rodizio or Tucanos back home in Utah, except we were in Brazil and they were talking to us in Portuguese. It was some of the greatest food of my mission though, so I was pretty dang happy!
This week I began to study a little bit more about Abinadi. I was studying how he spoke with such boldness and authority to King Noah and his servants and that he truly feared no man other than God. I was in the middle of reading in Mosiah about him when I realized something... Abinadi only had one convert when he completed his mission, Alma. I started to really realize, as missionaries, it doesn't matter how many people we baptize, the "numbers" we often talk about in the church, really don't matter much at all. What matters is the effort and desire we put in, doing the will of God.
Abinadi did absouletly everything he was asked to do, and by doing that, he converted King Noahs servant, Alma. Alma went on to baptize a multitude of people and became a prophet. He organized the true church of Jesus Christ again in the land. Abinadi feared nothing and was able to convert just one person by doing that. By small and simple means,the Lord will bring about his great and grand purposes. I know when we just do our part to help the work of God progress around us, God will provide the means for miracles to happen.
Hay que hacer nuestra parte no mas y veremos todos las bendiciones del mundo. Confiemos en Dios pues, y Èl nos ayudarà a superar todos los obstaculos de la vida para realizar esta gran obra. Sè que esta Iglesia es verdadera con todo mi corazon, y que cuando traemos almas a Cristo, hallaremos gozo y paz en la vida. Amo a cado uno de ustedes, tengan una buena semana.
