So this week kind of felt the same as all the other weeks. The language is coming along well. Our lessons have gotten really good. The devotionals were pretty good. On sunday we had a talk by Jeffrey R. Holland that was amazing. It talked a little about the purpose of Preach My Gospel it was so good! Then that night we watched the Joseph Smith movie which really stood out to me! Its crazy to think about how much persecution he went through for all of us. I think some times i take for granite that i havent been persecuted and that i have had the ability to be a mormon.
We only have one more lesson with one of our investigators and three more with the other. They both are pretty close to baptism and we have just been talking more about commandments. Im really nervous to teach tithing to them. I dont know how they will feel about paying one tenth of their money. But it is really good practice for the field. I can only imagine that tithing is going to be a hard commandment for some people to keep. Especially when they already may not have that much money to give. But if they know its true i hope they will be willing to give up anything for this church.
We got two new latino room mates this week they are pretty cool. They understand a little english and we can have pretty good conversations speaking spanglish. They asked us how are spanish was this week and we told them we were pretty good at talking to people about the gospel so they told us to teach them a lesson. So Elder Ivey and i taught them for a little while. They then wanted us to bare our testimonies in english so they could see if they could understand. It was weird baring my testimony in english. I can tell my testimony has been strengthed a lot by being here. They then bore their testimones in spanish to us. One of them is from panama and it was really hard to understand his spanish. But the other one is from Mexico and it was a little easier to undersand. Hopefully its easy to understand the people in texas.
Its crazy that i leave to texas in like 10 days! I feel like i just got here to the CCM. I dont think i will be ready for the field but i dont think i could every really be ready. Trying to learn a langage in 6 weeks is almost impossible and it will definately take me a while in the field until i feel comftorable speaking it. But im excited to start preaching the gospel and start changing peoples lives.
The days here kind of all blend together and its hard to study for three hours straight so sometimes we lose focus. This week I continued to learn about Christ´s life. In the Jesus the Christ book there is some amazing analogies about happiness versus pleasure. It basically just says happiness it real and pleasure only seems like it is real for a little while. It was really good! I also learned a lot about the plan of salvation. I realized i kind of lack in knowledge in this subject and its kind of hard to teach something you dont know about so i studied this subject as well during personal study time. Ive learned a lot about it and i know it will help me on my mission to know about it.
I know this church is true and i´m so excited to start sharing the gospel in ten days!!
Para siempre Dios este con vos!
Love Elder, Hurst
This is a cool case i got for my scriptures!
This is Hermana Perez and Hermano Perez no relation. Hemana perez is also Maria Fernada one of our investigators. And Hermano Perez was Carlos and is now Abraham.
A picture of Kassin i mean Elder Jackson and I before he left!
The natives that left on Monday. And my new hair cut!
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