I Hope They Call Me on a Mission
There is nowhere better to be than the mission. The mission is incredible. This week flew and was another amazing week again.
Change of plans?
So, this week we were heading back to my area Rabinal from Salama which is the biggest city in the Zone. And just gonna be honest, I was counting sheep the entire bus ride. But I wake up and get off the bus, and my comp Elder Willis is like hey btw I just got a call I'm going to Cobán to train the new mission financer and you're going to Santa Barbara with Elder Richards for a couple days and we are leaving in a couple hours. Elder Richards is an absolute stud, btw.
Santa Barbara con Elder Richards
Honestly, it was such a good experience for me and such a big motivator. Elder Richards really is an unreal missionary, and the time flew working with him. We had tons and tons of lessons and felt like I was just rolling the streets again with the boys. I got to call my mom for her birthday, and I honestly think Richards had a more fun time than I did only listening. But he taught me a ton, and we had some elite convos.
One of maybe the coolest things that happened was this one night after finishing a lesson, we stood waiting for someone to pull over and pick us up and take us back to the house, but nobody was having it. Then finally this guy pulls over. And starts off by telling us he's Catholic and just goes off for 30 minutes how incredible we are and the light we are to people. He bought us stuff from the store and then was like, “Can I FaceTime my family and show them I'm with the missionaries.” Then he wanted a video and picture for his Facebook. It was honestly just a really cool experience and just having someone be so happy to see us that was outside of the church was really cool, and he also shared some great messages.
Rabinal
We only had two days in my area this week, but we definitely made the most of it. We found tons of people and had so many lessons. This makes the time fly. The busier you are the faster the time goes. Every Saturday night we do a soccer night with the kids in the area and usually we don't have a ton, but this night we had way too many--it was nuts. I think we got like 25 kids to show up so the field was packed. We had 15 investigators come to church--it was crazy. Out of the like 70 people at church, 15 were investigators (our week goal was 3 and the Zone goal was 19). This week will be my last week in Rabinal with Elder Wilis as he is going home, but we have our transfer news this week which will be very interesting.
Random Things:
📖: So, I had my first Bible bash this week. In Elders Quorum… basically I was teaching and it's a very small class and nobody there was under 70 and these people, I love them, but sometimes just never know what's going on. All the sudden two of them start going off about Jesus wasn't perfect. And I was just like, huh? But for an hour, they just wouldn't stop saying it was in the scriptures that it said he wasn't perfect. He's like in Mathew 10 and I was like alright let's go read it then… Then k exact phrase searched the Bible for them on all the things they said were in the verse… They think we have an apostate Bible now.
🏐: It's honestly hurting me to write this but have to stay true. Last p-day night we had a volleyball thing with all the YSA in Salama. And the gringo lineup didn't win… We got cooked by a bunch of a 5-foot Guatemalans. I'm recovering still.
: We did some service for a member shoveling dirt and then pushing the wheelbarrow to their house. Which sounds simple. But when your wheelbarrow is catching 3 feet of air along the dirt path it makes the task a little harder. We were sweating bullets, too. And the wheelbarrow was more like a plate. I don't know if more dirt made it to their house, on my shirt, or on the trail.
Spiritual Thought - Alma 11-13
11 And he shall go forth, suffering pains and afflictions and temptations of every kind; and this that the word might be fulfilled which saith he will take upon him the pains and the sicknesses of his people.
12 And he will take upon him death, that he may loose the bands of death which bind his people; and he will take upon him their infirmities, that his bowels may be filled with mercy, according to the flesh, that he may know according to the flesh how to succor his people according to their infirmities.
13 Now the Spirit knoweth all things; nevertheless the Son of God suffereth according to the flesh that he might take upon him the sins of his people, that he might blot out their transgressions according to the power of his deliverance; and now behold, this is the testimony which is in me.
I love teaching the Atonement of Jesus Christ because it's always such a powerful thing to teach. The more you think about it, the more incredible it gets. Jesus Christ went and suffered for every single thing we have done or doing and will do. If you take a step back and put just yourself. If you were with your friend and you caused your friend so much pain and sorrow and then he turns around and told you he loved you. Told you that he will be with you no matter what. This is a pretty incredible thing. And this is exactly what Christ did for you. But not only for you but every single person that has lived, is living, and will live. His grace is sufficient to all that come unto him. And I know that he wants us all to come unto him no matter the pain we inflicted upon him.
Little bit of a shorter email this week, but I love you all.
Elder Wilde
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