"I hope you enjoy my letter more than the cookies the young women made." Wise words from Dan Smith whom I don't know...hahaha Thanks adopted ward for the package! Great stuff! Want to know what else is great? Hot water. Hot water is a blessing from the heavens.
But anyways! So it was a life changer week. Elder Kevin R. Duncan, pres. of the Area de Central America, came and I got to have 2 mtgs with him. Wow! He made me feel like what I've done in 16 months was nothing. But 1st he said that I don't care why you're here on the mission, we all have our reason. BUT, he said, YOU must obtain an unbreakable testimony of the Book of Mormon and this restored Gospel. Then he said, we need to change! Because the Lord is accelerating His work. Then he talked about how we're going to change...holy smokes, did he teach us what we need to do. Honestly this guy is amazing. One of my favorite General Authorities. He talked about how to plan for every 30 minutes, how to teach, and focusing on the priesthood in Central America. Then he talked about having 3,300 missionaries serving in CentroAmerica and there are 3,200 FROM CentroAmerica and President Spencer W. Kimball made a prophesy when Central America has the same amount of missionaries that are serving from CentroAmerica that are IN Central America, they will start sending more and more Latinos to countries on the other part of the World! 100 more! Then he talked about teaching the law of justice and mercy and whoo! We did it this week and have a way of doing it in 10 min. and it's worked soooo well! The spirit is so strong and the investigators are so intrigued and we're in and out in 20 min with them wanting more! Alma 42:22-23! Then he blew my mind with the meeting with the zone leaders, talking about ministers for our zone and doing divisiones and just tons of things we need to do as zone leaders.
Andddd what he talked about more than anything was the less actives. Hoy si papa. My invitation to all at home is that you can go up to the Bishop BEFORE SUNDAY and ask him for one person or family that is less active that you can go visit. Then on Friday you're gonna make cookies or do whatever us Utah Mormons do and go to their house and talk with them, deliver the goodies, be their friends, sing a hymn, and say a prayer, ok? Y'all are gonna report back the next Monday oyó? Perfect! :)
Well this week I've thought a lot about change. Change is so good. I'm so glad Elder Duncan taught us how we can change and help this great work hasten. From the 4th Missionary..."one way that you are immediately blessed is that you are changed, and change may be the greatest blessing of all. You are the sum total of all that you have thought, done, said, seen, heard and felt in this life and before. You change immediately with each good thought, each good act, every good word changes you for the better. When you willingly obey the principles of the Gospel, you are changed by the Spirit of God to become incrementally more like Him. The degree of change with each small act of obedience may be small, but it is real and immediate." :)
Love it. Love the change in me. Love looking back a year ago and my dreams and desires then and the dreams, desires, and visions I have now. They've changed! Change is good! We're always changing! I love repentance. It's so tough to look back on things you did wrong and know you should've done something else, but it's so glorious to know Christ's mercy is there for things like that if we just come to Him and are willing to change. Where is your heart? :)
This week I'm thankful for hot water, my awesome companion, when he talks like a gringo, our area, the baptisms we are going to have this week!!!, Elder Duncan, Pres. Ferman, the package from Sandy UT, justice, mercy, tithing, obedience, my sweet tender mercy from the Lord-my mission, this area! (becoming one of my fav areas ever), that I'm not in places in the world where nobody talks to missionaries (props to all in Europe haha), chastity, soccer jerseys, juice, my fam, the '3 tips' to have a good companionship, SVU, the Utah Jazz, church, candyyyyy, funny videos, the church's growth, andddd my Savior Jesus Christ and His Atonement.
-Elder Alec Johnson
Scrip of the week 1 Nephi 15:11
But anyways! So it was a life changer week. Elder Kevin R. Duncan, pres. of the Area de Central America, came and I got to have 2 mtgs with him. Wow! He made me feel like what I've done in 16 months was nothing. But 1st he said that I don't care why you're here on the mission, we all have our reason. BUT, he said, YOU must obtain an unbreakable testimony of the Book of Mormon and this restored Gospel. Then he said, we need to change! Because the Lord is accelerating His work. Then he talked about how we're going to change...holy smokes, did he teach us what we need to do. Honestly this guy is amazing. One of my favorite General Authorities. He talked about how to plan for every 30 minutes, how to teach, and focusing on the priesthood in Central America. Then he talked about having 3,300 missionaries serving in CentroAmerica and there are 3,200 FROM CentroAmerica and President Spencer W. Kimball made a prophesy when Central America has the same amount of missionaries that are serving from CentroAmerica that are IN Central America, they will start sending more and more Latinos to countries on the other part of the World! 100 more! Then he talked about teaching the law of justice and mercy and whoo! We did it this week and have a way of doing it in 10 min. and it's worked soooo well! The spirit is so strong and the investigators are so intrigued and we're in and out in 20 min with them wanting more! Alma 42:22-23! Then he blew my mind with the meeting with the zone leaders, talking about ministers for our zone and doing divisiones and just tons of things we need to do as zone leaders.
Andddd what he talked about more than anything was the less actives. Hoy si papa. My invitation to all at home is that you can go up to the Bishop BEFORE SUNDAY and ask him for one person or family that is less active that you can go visit. Then on Friday you're gonna make cookies or do whatever us Utah Mormons do and go to their house and talk with them, deliver the goodies, be their friends, sing a hymn, and say a prayer, ok? Y'all are gonna report back the next Monday oyó? Perfect! :)
Well this week I've thought a lot about change. Change is so good. I'm so glad Elder Duncan taught us how we can change and help this great work hasten. From the 4th Missionary..."one way that you are immediately blessed is that you are changed, and change may be the greatest blessing of all. You are the sum total of all that you have thought, done, said, seen, heard and felt in this life and before. You change immediately with each good thought, each good act, every good word changes you for the better. When you willingly obey the principles of the Gospel, you are changed by the Spirit of God to become incrementally more like Him. The degree of change with each small act of obedience may be small, but it is real and immediate." :)
Love it. Love the change in me. Love looking back a year ago and my dreams and desires then and the dreams, desires, and visions I have now. They've changed! Change is good! We're always changing! I love repentance. It's so tough to look back on things you did wrong and know you should've done something else, but it's so glorious to know Christ's mercy is there for things like that if we just come to Him and are willing to change. Where is your heart? :)
This week I'm thankful for hot water, my awesome companion, when he talks like a gringo, our area, the baptisms we are going to have this week!!!, Elder Duncan, Pres. Ferman, the package from Sandy UT, justice, mercy, tithing, obedience, my sweet tender mercy from the Lord-my mission, this area! (becoming one of my fav areas ever), that I'm not in places in the world where nobody talks to missionaries (props to all in Europe haha), chastity, soccer jerseys, juice, my fam, the '3 tips' to have a good companionship, SVU, the Utah Jazz, church, candyyyyy, funny videos, the church's growth, andddd my Savior Jesus Christ and His Atonement.
-Elder Alec Johnson
Scrip of the week 1 Nephi 15:11
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