This week was pretty good. we were working hard all week and we
kept finding new people. But the biggest problem i have here with Ecuador is that
it seams like you can constantly find new people who want the gospel in there
lives but are too darned lazy to go to church. The two people that we had in
church this week is the boyfriend of a less active member who liked the church
a lot and accepted a day to prepare for baptism. His name Is Byron. he is 16
years old. he likes listening to us and it appears like he really wants to get
baptized. The other is Miguel who i believe is like 28 who has had a lot of
problems in the past but is looking to change and put God as a priority to do
that. We are also preparing a different Miguel to be baptized this Saturday, but
i feel like it will be difficult, it does not appear if has gained his testimony
yet. so we are going to really try and help with that this week. Then we have a
few other people who can get baptized whenever they just need to get married but
other than the actual title of member they are fairly active. We are hoping
that this week we can find more people willing to go to church.
In my studies this week i loved in Alma 12:10-11 when it is talking about
listening to the gospel and how if we are actually willing to hear and listen
and apply we will gain the knowledge but if not we won't. Many times we think
that we are listening and willing to apply the teachings to our lives but many
times we don't. We read are scriptures to read, conference is on because its
suppose to be or we go to church because we have the class. We think to
ourselves that we are following through with the commandments but we are not
allowing ourselves to understand the gospel we just listen to what we know and
don't understand more. I hope it made sense where i went with that. i just want
that people know that we need to actually apply the word into our lives and
work to be better members it does not just come by following part
way.
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