I HAVE A CHILD!
I'm sorry, Mom, this isn't a real child, sorry to disappoint. This transfer, I will be TRAINING!!! I am so excited to train but I will also be staying another transfer in my area which is six months in Rabinal, which is a lot there… I will be picking up Elder Beck in Coban on Wednesday and am hyped to get things going.
Christmas Activities
Parade - So we had a huge parade on Wednesday night in San Jerónimo (bigger city and the 24th). It was so fun, literally felt like I was back at a high school dance. Our car had massive speakers on it and we just had music blasting and there was like 10 Elders there and we were just going crazy. The amount of “FELIZ NAVIDAD” said was an absurd number, and we were just sprinting all over the place. Voice took a hit, but it was worth it.
Fireworks - So because of Christmas, we all stayed together (Elders) in Salama on the 24th and coincidentally were up 'till 12… I was not expecting this firework performance out of the Guates, I'm gonna be honest. But wow, they went all out it was so lit. Just the entire city lighting off fireworks for 30 minutes straight.
CHRISTMAS - We started out w/ the Zone opening up our presents together. Shout out to mom and dad for blessing me up, we got lots of goods. Then we had a lunch appointment with this family and somehow ended up playing cup pong and Jenga for three hours and if you lost you got a cup of water splashed in your face from one of the cups on the table (always had the most) and the loser of Jenga had to dance for 30 seconds (Shoutout Richards). Then we had dinner and went back to the house and played more cup pong on the roof. I was trying to make things more interesting the second time, but they said we couldn't do that. Kinda lame. But Elder Smith and I were dominating. Shout out the hours I spent playing ping pong with the boys. The practice of seeing who starts paid off. Weird feeling being away on Christmas, but it was so fun and was a great day.
Week insights
🚪- I was only in my area for two days and I think I knocked about 200 houses and had so many people see us and go silent. Never said two more houses more in my life. It was a GRIND. We found some cool people though, so it was worth it.
Transfers - So I knew I was going to be training this transfer, but if I'm being honest, I was not sure if I wanted to stay. The new energy is going to be a game changer, I'm hoping.
Multi-Zona - We had our Multi-zona on Tuesday, and it was super good. It always leaves everyone with a lot of motivation to go and be a little better every day. I love going to them.
Spiritual Thought - it was good
I was really trying to find this conference talk about this but literally could not find it anywhere or remember who it was by. Part of the talk goes over the creation of the world and made me realize something I hadn't thought of before. After returning each day, the progress was claimed as good. He said it was good. He didn't say it was perfect. He didn't say it was flawless, but he said it was good. I think that maybe this was meant to signify a little bit more.
We aren't perfect. God knows we aren't perfect. That is why he sent his son so that we could continue to improve ourselves and obtain the eternal life. Through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, we don't need to perfect. We don't come back each day after our trials and our tests and our good and our bad and need to be upset it wasn't perfect. Saying it was good signified progress had been made. A progress in the right direction to the right purpose. If we were perfect, why would we be here.
Life is like a test more or less. A test never has only one answer choice. That wouldn't be much of a test. Each question has different selections that are possible. And you are never always going to get them all right every single time. But when you make the error is when you learn. You go back, think it through, and become better. You weren't perfect but there was progress. Progress to become better and to learn. Christ gives us the ability to do, “Test corrections” go back look at our mistakes and learn and become better so that we may be able to avoid the mistake going forward. In this case, the test more or less is ongoing. But not only this. Like the times the teacher would look at your paper then make a clarification to the class about a question. The ultimate teacher is always there to help. We just need to raise our hand and look to him.
It was never perfect. It will never be perfect. He only wants that we try out best and get a little better each and every day. What a gift.
4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
I love you all so much, have amazing weeks.
Elder Wilde
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