My dear friends and family,
This week has been interesting just like all of them. First
thing is the fact that it has been cold and dreary every single day this week.
I was not expecting this type of weather here in Mexico. Second thing is that
today we find out who is changing areas. It is likely that my trainer will be
changed out this week and I will get a new one because Elder Alexander has been
in Los Andes A for six months already. I am exceedingly nervous regarding this,
but also excited since it may help us to revive the work in the area.
My companion has been feeling burnt out over the past weeks. He
feels that he knows everyone in the area and that the ward is not upholding
it's responsibility to help the missionaries find people to teach. We have a
few investigators that will likely be baptized soon, but after that, we are
unable to find anyone who genuinely wants to listen. Things will always be
challenging, but we will push on.
An interesting thing happened the other day: Israel, our English
speaking investigator who has been involved in gang activity, had a dream
recently. He has an understanding of Christianity and has his own form of
faith, so he has a tendency of argue points of doctrine with us whenever we
teach. For this reason, we have been treating him as more of a friend than an
investigator. In his dream, Elder Alexander was teaching him and then began to
tell him how it hurt us when he argued with us and didn't accept what we had to
say. In the dream, my companion began to cry. This made Israel think about us and
how, maybe, he should listen to us more intently. I felt inspired to tell him
the story of Alma the Younger and the sons of Mosiah and how, when they went
out on missions it said that "Now they were desirous that salvation should bedeclared to every creature, for they could not bear that anyhuman soul should perish; yea, even the very thoughts that any soul should endure endless torment did cause them to quake and tremble."
In closing, I encourage ALL of you to do two things: 1. Read the
Book of Mormon if you have not begun already and 2. find the missionaries and
tell them of at least one person who may benefit from our message.
Se que Dios quiere que podemos tener exito en nuestras vidas y
que podemos tener paz y felicidad atraves del evangelio de Jesucristo. Se que
los desafios de la vida son importantes para nosotros y que tenemos los
desafios para progresar y aprender.
With great love,
Elder Sean Joseph Lambert
Sean's trainer and companion, Elder Alexander is on Sean's left.
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