Familia Trifundio

I hope that you all had a fantastic week! Everything is going very well here in Cholula. We are still working hard with the Familia Trifundio and a teenager named Edson. They both have baptismal dates for the 24 of March. The Familia Trifundio have gone to church 2 times and we just barely had our first Family Home Evening with other members. The dad is the only one that we need to convince so that Almadelia, Esmeralda, y Alondra can be baptised. Edson we are still trying to get to come to church, but he has a some great friends in the church to help him out.

I am super excited for this next change because I get to stay in Cocoyotla with Elder Urbina. We are hoping to help all the missionaries realize that they are in charge of the miracles that can happen in this change. Everyone is pretty excited and we have put some pretty high goals so we can all work hard. We are focusing on finding teaching and baptising families this change.

These past few weeks I have been thinking alot about how we are all in charge of what is going on our lives. We can decide if we are going to be happy or what type of life we are going to live. I especially liked this verse that I found in Mormon 9:27-28

27 O then despise not, and wonder not, but hearken unto the words of the Lord, and ask the Father in the name of Jesus for what things soever ye shall stand in need. Doubtnot, but be believing, and begin as in times of old, and come unto the Lord with all your heart, and work out your own salvation with fear and trembling before him.

28 Be wise in the days of your probation; strip yourselves of all uncleanness; ask not, that ye may consume it on your lusts, but ask with a firmness unshaken, that ye will yield to no temptation, but that ye will serve the true and living God.

We are in charge of working out our own salvation with the tools that God has given us here on the earth. The main tool being the atonement of our Lord Jesus Christ. It is amazing for me to think that what I choose is what will bring my destiny. I also really liked this qoute from Dieter F. Uchtdorf this General Conference

Perhaps you don’t consider yourself all that useful; perhaps you don’t consider yourself a blessing in somebody’s life. Often, when we look at ourselves, we see only our limitations and deficiencies. We might think we have to be “more” of something for God to use us—more intelligent, more wealthy, more charismatic, more talented, more spiritual. Blessings will come not so much because of your abilities but because of your choices. And the God of the universe will work within and through you, magnifying your humble efforts for His purposes.

The most successful people out there in the world are there for their decisions. They were working out their salvation and when what they planed didnt work out the made another choice to keep on working out their salvation. Right now alot of these people are intelligent, wealthy, charismatic, talented, and spiritual but they did not have that to begin with. They had their self dedication that led them to other qualities. You could say that dedication to make the things right is the keystone of all their atributes, and habits. I also really liked this poem that Elder Ackerman put on his agenda this last change. I think that my favorite scriptures apply to these thoughts as well.

Invictus

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BY WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY

Out of the night that covers me,

      Black as the pit from pole to pole,

I thank whatever gods may be

      For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance

      I have not winced nor cried aloud.

Under the bludgeonings of chance

      My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears

      Looms but the Horror of the shade,

And yet the menace of the years

      Finds and shall find me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,

      How charged with punishments the scroll,

I am the master of my fate,

      I am the captain of my soul.

13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but thisone thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,

14 I ^apress toward the mark for the ^bprize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

15 Let us therefore, as many as be ^aperfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.

Anyways sorry for that big huge rant just wanted to let you all know what I have been studying and what I have been thinking about. Have a great week!!!