Buenos Dias!!!
This has been an awesome week here in Primavera especially
with the exciting news that this coming Saturday we will be having a
multi mission conference with Elder Stevenson from the quorum of the twelve
apostles. Everyone here in the mission is super pumped.
This week we have been
working with a young sister named Ana Altamirano. She has been preparing for
baptism for a few weeks now. We were rescheduling her baptismal date, because
it was going to be the same date as the conference, when the impression came to
me that I needed to ask her why she wanted to be baptized. Her answer was so
simple but so true. She said "I know that getting baptized will help me to
be a better person..." I thought about it for a few brief second and then
I realized how true that phrase is. To be baptized is to follow the example of
Jesus Christ, the only perfect person to walk the face of this Earth. If we
want to be batter people our goal should be to more like Him, and the only way
to be more like Him is by living His Gospel. This Gospel includes having Faith
in Jesus Christ, Repentance, Baptism, Receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost, and
to endure to the End. He showed us this formula as a way of little by little
perfecting ourselves. When we have faith in Christ we desire to be more like
Him, when we realize that we sometimes fall short we repent to make the
necessary changes in our lives, when we try to be more Christ like we want to
follow his example of baptism through which we make a promise with God to keep
his commandments, after Baptism we receive the Gift of the Holy Ghost to help
guide us on the correct path, and finally if we are able to endure all things
until the end we will be able to gain all that is promised to us. These
promises include peace here on Earth and Eternal life in the coming life. To be
a better person is to be more Christ like, and Ana´s decision to be baptized is
one massive step to follow the example of Jesus Christ. It is an awesome
privilege as a missionary to help people take the steps to begin applying the
Gospel of Jesus Christ in their lives. When people are humble enough to take
these steps, then they can see the blessings in their lives, but what happens
is sometimes we are a little too stubborn and prideful to accept such a simple
solution.
As it states in Mathew 18:1-4
1 At the same time came the disciples unto Jesus, saying,
Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?
2 And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in
the midst of them,
3 And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted,
and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
4 Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little
child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
The mission is just awesome and the Gospel is so simple when
we do not over complicate it with our own ideas and opinions. This week has
been amazing and everyone is super excited as we prepare for our conference
this week.
Love,
Elder Vassau
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