Elder Rasaband!
This week was one to remember!! We had an great opportunity
to listen to a apostle this week right here in Guayaquil!!! the elder
Ronald A Rasband came on saturday. He spoke to all 3 of the guayaquil
missions. But before he spoke we all got a chance to shake his hand! and our
mission president told us all that we should look right into his eyes when we
shake his hand because that might be the only time in our lives to look at an
apostle of the lord right in the eyes. So i did and it is hard to describe the
intense Spirit that i felt when i did. After that he talked to us alot
about smiling. How we should always smile and show that we are truly in
love with this gospel and that we are truly are representing Jesus
Christ. He also talked alot about discerning from the spirit, how that we
have two things for us when we make decisions and two things against us. The 2
for us are, The light of Christ or his influence and example and the holy
ghost. the 2 that are against are, the natural man inside of us and
Satin. I really like that he mentioned the natural man because we all
know that the natural man just wants to do the "good" or what is
cool. If anyone has ever felt peer pressure before that is the natural
man, but if it is peer pressure to do something correct then it is the light of
Christ and his example. Sometimes we just talk ourselves out of a great
decision cause we just reason it out and decide not to in the end. So what
he told us was that we need to go off the first impression from the spirit and
not wait for ourselves to deny us from blessings.
He also talked about prayer and that God is not Siri so when
you ask something to him he is not immediately going to respond cause he his God
and he has his way of getting info to us and sometimes it is fast but most of
the time he wants to see us work for the answer ourselves.
I know that we have a prophet today and he lives and loves
everyone of us very much. He knows this life is not the easiest in the
world and its not supposed to be. We have to work for exaltation always
and for blessing.
I asked if the packages I sent have come:
yes i got one of them
with some pants i love them they are super fresh and way better than the
others.
Also another experience that i had this week was when we
were teaching a less active about temples and at this point he wasnt so less
active he is doing good now but we were teaching about baptisms and i tried
sharing the experience when we baptized gramps. and mom it was incredible. ive
shared the same experience a billion times before and its never been so
special. So i always share that experience with all the people that we
teach about temples cause its basically the only one i remember haha. But
my companion was actually the one to call on me to do it haha all he said was
Well elder Blackhurst has and experience about temples and i wasnt planning to
share it but all i told him is when i was younger i went with my dad to the temple
to help my family receive all the ordinances of the temple and i explained the
spirit i felt in that room when we did it that now gramps can receive
exaltation too. and i really received a confirmation that they really need us
and we really need them in order to be happy 1 here on earth and 2 in celestial
glory (Gramps is my dad's dad.)
i got to go in like 2
minutes sorry i was a turd last week and didnt even write you guys. I saw
sister Stout (Bryce) this week and gave her a blessing. it was awesome. Im glad to hear
that rex is doing good. she served in that same ward like 30 years ago!! I love how the lord did that haha
hey i got to go now but bye love you guys
