I love this area! While I still
miss Hato Mayor and Villa Gonzalez, there is something about this area
that makes a missionary just happy. Especially when the majority of your
contacts are families and you get to teach more families than not. We
have found a few that, while they need some clarifying on a few doubts
that they have, but that is why we are here!! People have a LOT of
questions about Joseph Smith, so I have been able to strengthen my
testimony of his calling as prophet of the restoration, because it just
makes so much sense!! Let me tell you why:
A lot of
people ask why the other churches dont talk about him, why they dont
recognize him as a prophet. I compare the situation to the restoration
before him, the restoration of the gospel through our Lord and Savior
Jesus Christ!! He got there and there were all these doubters that had
their doctrine and had their doubts (pharisees and saudusees and
scribes) and they never accepted him because they couldnt leave their
church. They were stuck in the effects of the apostasy!! But those who
followed Christ got the blessings and true baptism. Then the church got
lost again, because of the hardness of the people (as Christ prophesied
in Matthew 21:43).
Then the people got into all these different religions. So when the
truth came again, the people were and are still so blinded from this
confusion that they sometimes cannot see the light!! It is sad, but we
know that people can come to know through reading, pondering, and
praying! AND THAT IS OUR INVITATION!!
It is
really cool, I still think about it all the time. I am A MISSIONARY!! I
speak fluent spanish, I am here and I just love the life here. It still
hasnt hit me 100% that I am a missionary, which is just insane. Life is
great!!
Brandon, as ward mission leader, dont
stress. Just be the bridge between the elders and the ward. Dont do the
Missionaries' responsibilities, and dont do the ward's responsibility!!
You might have to do a little at a time but being a good LIDER MISIONAL
is being the sturdy and big bridge between the ward and the
missionaries, not being the ward and the missionaries. ERES LO MEJOR Y
QUISIERA QUE FUERAS MI LIDER MISIONAL MUCHACHO!!!!
Love you my friends!!
Elder Murphy
1. The view from the bridge that connects Santiago to Bella Vista!!!
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