Week 55: ¡La capilla!
¡Y! ¿Cómo estamos? Hope everyone is doing great! Another transfer down here in Salto. I'll be staying with my comp Elder Monge for another 6 weeks at least, but we'll be receiving two more elders in our ward...so Ill get to share our area and our house with another companionship! That will make for some great memories for sure!
This week was great! On Sunday we had great success with the people that we are teaching, because we had a lot who showed up to church! Ive been thinking about the importance of the members when we bring new people to church for their first time. As missionaries that is the only thing we want...members to help the people that wer ae teaching feel comfortable. As Im sure we've all experienced, sometimes you just can't feel the Spirit much in the sacrament meeting. Distractions from phones, chatting, people going in and out, and just lack of attention, can really ruin someones first experience with the church. Im finally understanding that we don't just simply "go to church"...we gather as a group of people once a week, to worship our Heavenly Father. Sometimes we get too comfortable with going to church and we forget that we are there to worship our Heavenly Father. Worshipping is the purpose of why we go to church, not just to see our neighbors and friends and chat a little with them and then to maybe plan a ward activity together. We meet at church to worship and praise God. When the members of a ward forget the reason of why we go to church, it creates a pretty bad first impression for the pèople that the missionaries work so hard to bring. If these people go to church with the desire to worship, and then show up to find something other than that, they leave and don't come back. Then the fault will fall upon the us, the members, for why that person didn't receive the gospel in that moment of their life.
"And we did magnify our office unto the Lord, taking upon us the responsibility... otherwise their blood would come upon our garments, and we would not be found spotless at the last day." We have a responsibility as members of this church. To invite all to come to church to worship our Heavenly Father, and then to help them feel comfortable while doing it. I know that if we recognize the true reasons why we go to sacrament meeting every Sunday, it will become something far more meaningful and something impactful in our lives. We will not see it as just "going to church" rather, going to worship and give thanks to our God who loves us more than we could ever know.
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