HEY!! How's everything back in Bountiful?!?
Well this week had been great! I have been able to grow and learn so much in the gospel and in spanish!! Tengo mucho exito en espanol!! It's been great so far! The time is starting to speed up and its just so crazy how fast it really goes! It feels like I just got here! After this week I will only be in the United States for 3 more weeks and then I'm off to Nicaragua! That is going to be one of the best days of the MTC. I have however grown a lot and have been doing my best on the language and on learning the gospel.
I was learning about faith, repentance, and baptism this week. It has been on of the most challenging things to do. First off because it made me think and question my own thought on all three of them. I had to truely stop and think if I was doing all that I could to strengthen my faith and use the atonement more in my life to be strengthened. I was able to learn that all of this is possible only through the mercy of Jesus Christ. That we need to repent and strengthen our faith all the time. In the song "Come Thou Fount" it says that we need to have our eye focused on God and what we can do to become more like Him. There are many ways we can do this, one of those is forgiving those that we need to forgive and also always looking out for others. A scripture I read in Mosiah 18 really stuck out to me when I reading. It was talking about how people were wanting to be baptized in the river of Mormon. There it explains what we take upon us when we are baptized and it says "willing to mourn with those that mourn, and care for those that are in need of comfort" It really made me think about my own life and when I wasn't so willing to help those in need of help. In the Christmas conference, David A. Bednar talked about this: He told about a story of a woman and he was at home one day and got a phone call from a girl from the singles ward he was bishop over. She was telling him about an accident she had been in and how she needed his help. The girl was talking with a mom of one of the daughters and they were trying to identify which one of the girls had died. When they had found out that it was it was the daughter of the mom on the phone and they assumed she would need help. However, that mom was calling the other parents letting them know about what just happened and that their daughters were in the hospital. Then later while she was headed over to the funeral for her daughter a lady from the ward who was sick needed food for her family. Right before her own daughters funeral she made food for this family. The feelings I could feel hearing this story was unreal. It was like this event was happening right then and there. He later went on and started talking about Christ and how he suffered in the Garden of Gethsemane. How he was betrayed and how he was crucified. Even in his darkest times he was still thinking of others. He called to God and told him to forgive those who were killing him because they know not what they do. I began to suddenly realize the character of Christ at that moment. He went throgh so much and was killed. While listening I began to feel uncontrollable sorrow for my Savior, for how much he went through for me who did nothing to deserve it.
Through that I have been trying my hardest to become a disciple of Christ. To forgive those that may have done wrong to me, to love all, to help other even when the world seems to come down on me. To turn off the natural man and become more of a saint through the atonement of Jesus. That means being humble to the will of the Lord and to follow the words that he says. Yo se que el envangelio de Jesucristo es verdad, que por medio podemos volver a dios. Yo se que that Jesucristo muerte por mi y que podemos usar la expracion venir a dios, y llegar a ser como cristo. Yo se que cuando seguro el entendemos la plan mejor. Amo el evangelio y aguarar podemos volver a dios.
I LOVE YOU ALL
Elder Trujillo
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