Elder Moore is our District leader here and just rocks with his district meetings! I dont know if i would be able to give trainings every week with his work he has to do as secretary as well! But he has been the one that has been trying to get us all finding new people to teach all the time. So we all have a goal to get out of the comfort zone as much as possible. And we have been trying it and it is working!
We went back to Josiane this week and found out why we couldnt get ahold of her. She has been in Chapecó all week for work. They take care of pharmacies all around the state here so they travel 9 days of the month. But we marked to go back there tonight.
But I got something really interesting out of my Dad's email from today about building our foundations. He said, "You have to work,... you have to pay,... and you have to sacrifice for that type of foundation." That type of foundation being one that is solidly built upon Christ that can not fall.
One thing President has taught us is to grab the verbs from scriptures and analize them to know what do we have to do. And these three verbs, work, pay and sacrifice are keys.
To try to make more sense my mom sent me an awesome email about service back in December I think. She told me a story about our Aunt Sarah. I don't remember it completely but basically Aunt Sarah really wanted a new stroller. So she WORKED and saved up her money for a really good amount of time to go and PAY for the stroller.
Then one day she found a lady walking home from the store with kids and it looked like she didn't have a car or anything. So she SACRIFICED something and went and just gave the lady the stroller. The point of my mom's e-mail was that service requires sacrifice and it was an awesome e-mail!
But in life, sometimes working and paying isn't enough. We can work and pay for something and it will seem just. It is fair. We worked for that. But then sacrifice is when we have to do something that may not seem fair to us.
You really have a great opportunity to see that a lot on your mission with companions. No companion is perfect and you guys gotta work together to get over your weaknesses and loose yourself in the Lords work.
Maybe you might get a comp that can't get out the door on time so you decide to iron his shirts for him to help him be a little faster. Is that fair? Why can't he do that for himself? We both have the same time in the morning?
It isn't really fair but that is why it's called sacrifice. It wasn't necessarily fair for Christ to have to suffer for each one of OUR sins. But that is why it is the greatest sacrifice that has ever been made and will ever be. And that is what enables us to become better and perfect and what is going to get us back to our Heavenly Father. We may have to loose something sometimes to gain something greater. Sometimes we can't see that "greater" part though right now so we don't want to put in the sacrifice.
I don't know if that made any sense but it did in my mind! haha
But we will see what happens with these new people that God is giving us! They are all pretty cool people because most of them are from the North and Northeast of Brazil so they are a lot warmer than the people from the South.
But I love you all so much and hope you have an awesome week! Mom I love you so much! It was awesome talking to you! Hope you had an awesome Mothers Day!
Elder Keller
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