This week was amazing! We had the opportunity to listen to Elder de Hoyos as he gave us advice on how to be better missionaries and servants of the Lord. A lot of what he said involved talking to more people, and to make sure they know we are servants of the Lord called to preach His gospel, inviting others to come unto Christ and follow Him. My companion and I took this advice and decided to set specific goals and plans for our area and work. We had a lot of people that we needed to contact and teach, and we prayed to be able to find them and to be able to teach according to the Spirit. In just a few short days, we had 7 new people who were interested in learning more about the restored gospel, and 6 of them accepted an invitation to follow the Savior and to be baptized by someone holding the proper authority from God! One of them was Fabian, who has a sister who is a member across town, and we were able to testify to him that our message is true. He seemed really interested to learn more, and if he receives a testimony by the 29th of June, he wil be baptized! We have been trying to contact him for a couple of weeks now, and when we prayed and took the extra effort to work hard, the Lord blessed all of us! How great is that!
I also have been working hard to improve little by little everyday. It is hard to see progress when we constantly fail and struggle, and something I have been learning is that Heavenly Father is patcient with me because I am a son of God! and I have worth to my soul, just like everyone in the world, especially the people here in Paraná (D&C 18:10). It is definetly hard to struggle and wonder when will I be able to overcome this challenge? Or when can I move past this roadblock in my life? But I have learned to be patcient and to learn to rely on the Lord more, so that I can be a better missionary. We will always come up short in life, but we have the gift of the Atonement of Jesus Christ to help us be clean and be able to progress and return to our Father in Heaven one day.
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