Well I thank everyone for all the emails, the only bad thing
about receiving many emails is that you don't have much time to reply,
nevertheless it is wonderful to hear of home. Oh what a week
So on Tuesday we had a family night which Elder Smith made
us Burritos Mexican style and it was a wonderful change from the normal food
here. With a lot more flavor. (photo included)
Well learned that many times the Lord allows things to
happen to remind us that He is in control, that things seems so dark and one
hinds under a pavilion from him because he or she becomes so focused on one
item and after drowning in a glass of water for a little bit he or she picks up
his or her head and looks around and realizes that the glass of water is not
very big.
This week some branch drama happened and
some members did not want to come to church anymore, and resigned from their
callings and I began to drown in this. I didn't know what we would do however;
Sunday came and I realized that we have many more blessings here in Mejillones
that I need to count more often. We broke the record of people in church with
36 people. (12 of which were primary + 2 babies) I taught primary with the help
of Bro. Wellington (photo included) who has been inactive almost sense he had
been baptized and we have been helping him a long to come back and he has come
to a few sacrament meetings here and there. Which here in Mejillones like in
Diego Portales in Arica in church we start with Priesthood and Relief Society
then Sunday school, and then Sacrament meeting. Then we found his love for
playing with kids and teaching youth, so we will continue to take advantage of
that so that he reactivates two that the youth have a leader, and three that he
learns more about the Gospel.
The point is I was super grateful for
him in that point because he had so many ideas. We had a puppet show with
la jirafa Elias. Who told the story about Christ's birth and King
Herod, and how God Protects me and all of his children. It was hard but
enjoyable and very helpful to have another pair of hands present to help.
Transfers happened this weekend: I will
stay here and be TRAINING! YES! It's a dream come to true. Elder Smith
will leave me this evening to go to Tierra Amarilla and as well be opening his
sector with his hijo because we are both TRAINING! He was so excited well we
were both so excited. I'll miss Elder Smith a lot he has definitely helped
learn a lot and I'm happy for him.
Last news, in our mission this transfer
coming up with only be 4 weeks long to realign itself with the MTC because of
the age change shorter time in the MTC and such which means that all the
missionaries from our mission will come home 2 weeks earlier. I don't know if
that is true for all missions but ours yes.
Have a Wonderful day- because you can choose to
Elder James O. Gillespie
Goodbye Wildflower
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