Week 29 - Another week - more learning

Hey there Family!

Tijuana Temple

I LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH!!!!

So, this week. Welp, this week I basically changed my strategy on how to find and teach people. I’ve started working on contacting more people and teaching simpler and clearer lessons. I don’t know what happened, but somewhere in the midst of me getting more comfortable speaking Spanish I started to spend a lot of time explaining. But what I found was that when we explain a lot, they don’t understand very much. It’s better that we share only a little bit, and share it very simply so that they can take away a key part. With this new strategy to teach, I’ve also found that we can find which people are prepared and which people are not. We’re here to teach those that are prepared to receive the Gospel. It’s best if we set out a large net and keep the good fish than to set out a small net trying to turn bad fish into good fish. Some people will just never accept the Gospel. It’s a sad truth that I’ve realized here. 

We’ve seen some real advances in our investigators this week. Mateo is the soon-to-be husband of Janet (who we baptized last month). He doesn’t really have any of a religious background, but is a super nice guy. Real hard worker too. He’s worked most of his life in the US in the fields. This week at church he told us, “It feels like every time I go to church I have more of a desire to learn and keep the commandments of God”! Woot! He’s pretty cool.

We also have another investigator Rosa and her granddaughter Jessica who have gone to church 2 and 3 times respectively now! They’re doing really good and trying to work towards baptism.

It’s sort of sad because I think I’ll be leaving this coming transfer. Elder Segundo will finish up his training this week and chances are that one of us is out of here. I’ve really enjoyed the ward and members here, even though we haven’t seen much success in baptisms. I’ve been really blessed to be in this ward and with this opportunity. I feel that right now I’m right on the edge of figuring out how I can best serve The Lord. Of course, we’ll always have room for improvement. 

Elders Wood and Morgan at the Chinese buffet

Today was great. The Stake President here took all of the 30 missionaries in the stake over to a Chinese buffet that overlooks the construction site of the temple. The temple looks so awesome! The food was good too. It was great to be all together as missionaries and see the great Elders and Sisters of Israel. He also made all of us “Florido Stake” t-shirts with our names on it. The only problem was that Elder Huld’s name wasn’t on it, and mine was on there twice! haha. We’re just going to Sharpie Elder Huld’s name on there. 

Anyways, this week I really focused on the Gospel. The Gospel is God’s plan for us to overcome the effects of The Fall and live with Him again. This Gospel has been lost and restored through the ages and was restored by God through His servant Joseph Smith. With the restoration of the Gospel (and we know it’s still going on according to Elder Uchtdorf) all the blessings that come along with it have been restored. This is our purpose. Help people receive the blessings of the Restored Gospel. i.e. Salvation, Eternal families, etc. I know that this Gospel was restored and that we have a modern day prophet. 

I love you all. Please share the Gospel with everyone!!!

Elder Morgan