SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME IF THE JAZZ MADE IT TO THE PLAYOFFS!!! ALSOOO the mango was the forbidden fruit I decided this week. It couldn´t have been the pineapple because the pineapple grows in it´s own brush/shrub thingy and since mango is the 2ndbest… It was the mango.
This week was full of little decisions. Small decisions that really can change the day and as Pres. Monson says, even our destiny. It was a good week.:) We had 5/1 at church and it was just a tough, good missionary week. A lot of things happened this week that made me realize that little decisions really do make ALL the difference. And the Lord gives us those decisions to see if we can ´choose the right´. There´s a quote I read by Pres. Monson that says,
“You do not find truth groveling through error. Truth is found by searching, studying, and living the revealed word of God. We learn truth when we associate with truth. We adopt error when we mingle with error.”
We all know how we feel when there´s a hard choice before us, maybe it´s not the worst thing we can do, but we choose the wrong. We know how that feels and it stinks when you offend the Spirit by doing that. But we also know what it´s like to make that right decision and immediately after you feel God´s approval and feel joy for choosing the right. There were a couple times where I felt God´s approval after some decision making this week and I just knew He was glad that I did the right. Forgiveness is just great as well. Because I definitely have needed a lot of forgiveness these 21 months. Just fabulous really that we can be forgiven for all the silly and dumb things we humans do. And also how we can forgive people. I love that too. My scrip of the week actually has to do with that. Really cool doctrine how we can retain (“to keep in possession or use”) a remission of our sins.
Mosiah 4:26
"26 And now, for the sake of these things which I have spoken unto you—that is, for the sake of retaining a remission of your sins from day to day, that ye may walk guiltless before God—I would that ye should impart of your substance to the poor, every man according to that which he hath, such as feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, visiting the sick and administering to their relief, both spiritually and temporally, according to their wants."
Love the Gospel. Love that I´m not perfect and that it brings me to humility and brings me to my Savior every time I slip up and depend on His perfect Atonement. And then I am able to fully repent, forget, move on with faith and be better the next time. And sometimes I slip up and slip up again but as long as we are trying and giving our all to this restored Gospel and our Master Jesus Christ, that´s all that matters.:)
Oh and ROVELÍO PEOPLE!!! HE RULES. HE JUST RULES. Taught him about the restoration (he is already been to church twice and still haven´t taught him that because he has been gone!) and he accepted everything and then we taught him the Word of Wisdom and he was just like "Well we sometimes drink coffee here but it´s already written and it´s what we need to do so we´re gonna stop." and Elder Burnham and I just like sat there haha he´s ready to roll
This week I am thankful for nights in the hammock just thinking about life and being so grateful to my Father in Heaven for all that he has given me, music and the powerful testimony it gives of this Gospel, Mr. Rovelio and that he is on track to be baptized!. He is so stinkin pilas, for candy (I really do like sweets a lot), a really weird, long, short week, that in 3 months today I will be hugging my sweet dear mother #notbaggyjustafact, for basketball, for being in the office, for the power of love, for the words of Elder Holland, Elder Duncan, Elder Peña, the best dad ever Jeremy Paul, for ties, OH AND FOR THE STINKIN FACT THAT HERMANA PORTILLO GOT BAPTIZED ON SATURDAY WHATTT!!!, the members here, our investigators, when you do a soccer move in the street when a ball comes rolling and all the kids in the street freak out and yell hahaha, anddd I´m thankful because God knows who I am.
Have a greattt week!
-Elder Alec Johnson
