Hows everything going?? Ok to answer all the questions first. Everything for right now is the same I'm still with my companion but TOMORROW!! I will know if there are changes or not!! I feel like I'm going to be moved but I'm not too sure about what is going to happen.
As far as I'm going, we had another baptism this week. lol It was one that filled me with the spirit and filled me with much joy because I had been teaching her and her husband from when I was here with my other companion Elder Pineda!! It was amazing and I was able to let him know today that she was baptized!! I truely have been filled with the spirit so many times here in Nicaragua and every time I open my heart to these people I grow closer and closer to them. Sometimes its hard to do so because i know one day I will leave. I sometimes worry that they wont stay strong and that they will fall into the temptations. However, that is also trust in God that He will guide them in truth and righteousness. Almost like a parent and their child, or like you and dad, who taught me the ways and the things I should do right. Then you trusted in God to let me choose, I sometimes think about how God sees us and how He thinks and sometimes its hard to even grasp that He too knew that some of His children would make it and some would not, that some would show all their love for Him and others totally reject him. It is dificult for me to understand the love of a parent let alone God. However i know that He loves me, not only my victories but also my weaknesses and errors. I have referred back to the scripture that is in Ether 12:27 that explains that God gave us weaknesses, so then we can realize that we can't do anything by ourselves, however, if we come unto Him, He shows us our weaknesses so then we can become strong. This week I have been studying the atonement more and more trying to grasp not only the power behind the atonement but also the significance. It has helped me to understand the gospel as a whole and it truely puts everything else in its place. What I have learned is about the power behind the atonement that gives us strength and helps us to become better than we could normally be without Christ. I was reading in Mosiah 3:19 and it explains what we need to become, however we can only become this person through the atonement of Jesus Christ. After reading I thought of the scripture that says that there are things to act and things to be acted upon. I thought about that phrase and it came to me that we are things to act because God gave us faith and faith is an action. Thinking of this i remembered a revelation that i received not too long back about Nephi and when his brothers had tied him up and were about to leave him to be eaten by the wolves in the desert. He prayed and then it said through his faith he was able to break the bands that laid hold of him. Another story is in the book of Mosiah 24 where the people of limhi were captured by the army of Ammulon and they were not able to pray unto their God, that the Laminites put strong weights on their shoulders that they couldnt think or pray. However, they prayed in their hearts for the strength to overcome their situation. For me that made me shocked because if it was me I would say get me out of here HELP ME!! lol however they didnt do that they instead prayed for strength to overcome their tests, and in the end they were given the strength to overcome all their afflictions. However they did it with patience, love, much joy, and able to submit to the will of God. As i got to thinking back to Mosiah 3 where it said what we needed to become and it was just that. loving patient, happy, and willing to submit to God. After learning this I started to test it and to put it into practice asking God for the spirit and that I can do His will in all things, however recieve it with joy. In this moment i suddenly understood my favorite scripture that is found in Matthew 11:28-30 it suddenly realized that the atonement isnt only for cleaning it also is a power and a rock that if we are firm and stay strong with it we will be able to overcome the burdens that are put on our backs!! I have felt that same power in the work as I have learned to pray for strength and not just change the situations! I have learned the importance of trials and tests that help us to grow and become more like Christ. That if we are willing to submit to him we will be able to do all things that he needs!! I have felt the days go by so fast because I was lifted up in the joy of Christ and with his strength i am able to do all things!! I know He lives and if we will only but come unto him he will make our burdens light. using his atonement we can become exactly what he is and return with him.
Love Elder Trujillo
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