Another transfer has come
and gone, and I'm still here in Obligado with Hermana Garcia! Woohoo! We both
love it here and love the Branch and all the people. Now we will have three
transfers together in this area. We are going to try and make it four. But now
I have probably just jinxed myself haha.
We have been working a lot
with a man named Juan these past few weeks. He is a member of the church but
has been struggling a lot lately and hadn't come to church, or been praying, or
reading the scriptures for quite some time. But we really felt like we needed
to start visiting with him, for some reason we couldn't forget about him.
Anyway, the other day in one of our lessons he told us that just a few weeks
ago he had been considering never going to church again, he felt that he was
failing God, and didn't think he would ever be able to go back. But then he
said really soon after he started thinking this we arrived and started visiting
with him, and he always looks forward to the lessons because he feels something
different when we are there. Then he told us that when he went back to church
for the first time he felt that same feeling of happiness and goodness again!
He has been working a lot to repair some of his mistakes, but he has a true
desire to change and be changed by Christ.
Titus 3:2-4 My companion
and I have been studying about charity and trying to develop a more Christlike
love for everybody here. "To speak evil of no man, to be no
brawlers, but gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men. For we
ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers
lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating
one another. But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man
appeared," We can stop judging and criticizing others because we too make
mistakes. We can start loving and helping others because we have seen the
example that Christ gives us.
I LOVE you all and hope
even more that you know that Christ loves you about a bajillion times more than
anything we can imagine!
Have a marvelous week!
Hermana Simmons
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