Viva La Vida

From September 8, 2014

The mission is awesome. You learn so much and grow so much. I was thinking about how valuable the mission is in experiences. It is priceless. If you are debating about going on a mission. Just do it. 

This week was a good week. Well all weeks are good weeks here in the mission, even if they're bad weeks because we are in the service of the Lord. I have lately been trying to really recognize the hand of the Lord in my work. I had an experience yesterday that showed me, again, that the Lord is directing his work. We left with a member to go contact references and visit less actives. We had visited a couple of houses and then we went to another house. We showed up and started talking to an inactive kid. His mother, who we intended on visiting, was not home. As we were talking to the kid his mom showed up. She was crying. She sat down with us and told us that her son had had a stroke and that he was probably not going to live. I had never seen this sister in my life. She is an inactive member. We were able to read the comforting words in Matthew to her, "[Él] No está aquí porque ha resucitado." We explained that we can see our loved ones after this life. We also were able to give her a blessing of comfort. I know that God put us there in that exact moment that we needed to be there. Asombra me da, really. I know that God loves His children and that He wanted us to visit His daughter and help her out.

I am excited to see how our new zone works. I have good feelings about this month. Our potential is not really high now but we brought quite a few people to church and we can put some dates this week. I felt this week like I have been in a slump. I realized what you have to do to get out of a slump in the mission. You have to find new investigators. That is key to make sure you don't fall into slump. We have been making plans and sharing Preach My Gospel with members to get references. We had a good amount of people in church this week, more than we had committed, which was a complete miracle. I can see us leaving this slump really soon. I believe the zone has been in the same slump because in August we, you could say, "wrang out the rag until we had dust coming out." We worked so hard with the people we had that we neglected finding news which later down the road came back to bite us. We make mistakes so we can learn from them.

.-Elder Rowberry

Attached is just a random photo that I found on this computer and a picture of the zone last change. Not a lot of differences huh?