This week was good.

 

This week was good. On Saturday, we attended a baptism in the morning and the night before, the sisters who asked us to come also asked us to do a "song and dance" with the Plan of Salvation in it (lesson 2 from Preach My Gospel) in Spanish because the parents of the man who's being baptized are Spanish. We said we would go and translate for them, but we thought they were kidding about teaching the plan of Salvation. We go to the baptism, and meet the Spanish people, and we look in the program, and there we are! We're supposed to teach the Plan of Salvation! In Spanish! And we're not prepared! :) So, we made a really quick lesson plan and got up there and taught the plan of Salvation in Spanish. It was great. Probably not as good as it could have been, but it was still good. 

We had a second baptism scheduled for Saturday too, one of the old investigators that Hermana Wilcox had taught, and one of our investigators was going to take us and two of her relatives to it, but the man who was being baptized cancelled last minute because he had work that day. We were very upset. 

So, ya know, ups and downs of missionary work, what do ya do? :) Just keep smiling and go forward, because we know "This is eternal life. This is the salvation of the children of God. Eternity hangs in the balance...It is the most important path [anyone] will ever walk. But if he or she doesn't know that, at least you do! So take control of this situation. Teach with power and authority, and then be devastated if the first steps toward commandment-keeping and covenant-keeping have not successfully begun." (Elder Holland, as quoted in Preach My Gospel pg. 8)

Yes, I am learning. A lot. I realized the reason why I'm not happy is that I'm being tossed about by every wind of doctrine. I have a testimony of the truthfulness of this gospel and the church that houses it, but it's not as strong as it needs to be. And so, I'm not teaching like I need to be doing, I'm being taught, which is not my calling. To solve this problem, I need to study more, to believe more, to seek learning by study and also by faith. It's not enough to just to believe, or just to know. I have to know and believe the knowledge that I have is true, and then I have to stand firm against whatever the world throws at me. That's what I've learned this week.

I gotta go! but I love you very much!