Submitting to Heavenly Father's Will (Week 51)
Hey you guys! This week was just super duper good. It went by so fast and it was just calm and I just felt the Spirit and I am just so happy and relaxed and this is what the gospel of Jesus Christ is. I feel so good right now.
This whole week Elder Soares and I saw so many blessings in our work. We did our very best to just obey the rules and pray and stay close to our Heavenly Father and everything was just good. So for a couple of weeks I have been feeling super strongly that Soarino and I needed to leave the house right at 10:30 after we study in the morning and go do contacts and find people to teach. I'm not kidding something would always come up or we'd start studying late, so we never got around to leaving on time until Saturday came around. I got up, went for a run, and I was so freaking tired haha but was determined to have a good day. A drunk dude laughed in my face while I was running because who the cuss knows why, then I showered and we got studying. We ended our studies around like 10:20 and then got all ready to leave and met one of the coolest kids ever, before we had lunch. His name is Ildo and he normally isn't home because he likes to hangout in the streets and we happened to catch him leaving his house and he told us he'd go home around 6:00 to talk with us. We went to his house and we're talking to him about how God loves him as a son. He was telling us that his dad lives in another city and that he misses him a ton. We talked to him about the Book of Mormon and when I pulled it out I go dude I promise you this book will help you overcome the challenges you are having right now, whatever they may be. God will give you the strength as you read this book. He just looks at us after and goes I was literally gonna ask you right now if this book could help me get out of the streets and make better decisions with my life. Every time I have the desire to go out and get jiggy with my friends I think I'll just chill a tiny and read this book. I really felt so lucky to have met this kid and I know that we met him because we chose to obey what God was telling us. Here in the mission I am painfully learning the importance of obedience. I am realizing how obedience really is what brings the blessings God has ready for us. It sure has been painful figuring out how to be obedient, but nothing is more comforting than knowing that as we are obedient, we are doing what God would want us to do. There is something so comforting in knowing you are choosing the right over just wandering around hoping you are boogying down the right path.
Wellington and Vanessa are way way too good these days. Everything is just an absolute beauty with them. On Friday Wellington lost his wallet and was mega bummed out haha. I told him a story about how I lost my wallet and prayed a frick ton and then found my wallet like 5 days later. I told him God is wanting to test him and that if he prayed to find his wallet he would find it. We left and he was like super uber bummed haha but many prayers were said after we left and nonetheless he found his wallet on Saturday! Prayer is way too rad folks. We had a super special lesson with just Wellington Sunday night because everyone was sleeping, and we taught him about family history. We explained it so simply and the Spirit spoke so strong to all of us there. Through teaching about this my testimony grew so much. I realized how legit it is that we have the opportunity to help people who have already died here on earth but are well livin on the other side of the veil. I truly know that life continues after death and that Gods plan is perfect for us. It's so sick we have the opportunity to seek out our bros and ladies on the other side and lend them a helping hand.
I feel so truly blessed to be serving a mission. At times I am getting absolutely railed and it can be such a bummer out here but that's all just part of the shim sham. I always end up realizing how vital for my spiritual growth the little tiny crappy A times are, and it makes me trust in God more and more every time. He just wants me to be super rad like Him one day, but He can't do anything unless I let him, you know. I know it's hard to fully submit yourself to our Heavenly Father but I haven't had a better 2 weeks in the mission only just trying to give my will to the Father. It's legit stuff dudes.
Just to end up really quick, on Sunday our lunch fell through so we made pancakes at home. I ate 4. We got hungry for dinner so we made more pancakes and I ate 3 more. I am running on 7 pancakes right now haha, but mom don't you even worry your little biscuits of course I'm taking my vitamins!
Love you guys!
Elder Pooter