Area: Santiago, Chile
Companion: Elder Barnes
Hey
family,
Wow, I love hearing
from you because every week you are all receiving so many blessings, its
incredible!!!
As for Elder Barnes
and I, we are doing well. The truth is that nothing really exciting happened
this last week. It was just a normal week. We are having a bit of trouble in
finding some quality investigators and getting people to progress but thats just
the name of the game on the mission. I know that things are going to pick up
here soon. The ward here is great and especially hna Blanca is awesome and super
willing to help us out in the work which is going to be a GREAT advantage for
us.
But since i cant
really think of anything cool to share about the week ill share something that I
was learning about today. Its from a talk by elder Ballard that Tori sent me.
But it talks about the law of Sacrifice and what it means. I liked it alot. Some
parts that I liked were that the law of sacrifice (or law of moses) was
completed in Christ and that meant the end of blood sacrifices. But while the
law in itself was completed, the principles continued in the lives of everyone.
He says that instead of having animal sacrifices the sacrifice that we have to
make is one of spirit and we have to give ourselves to Christ. The concept of
self purification. And that this life is not easy, we will have to make many
sacrifices to be able to grow spiritually.
I have often wondered
about the pioneers and how they had such great faith and made so many sacrifices
based on the faith that they had. Elder Ballard points out that the sacrifices
that the pioneers made helped them to grow in their faith and to truly come to
know God. For that reason they had such firm faith. I have often wondered why it
seems that the people now-a-days don´t seem to have the same caliber of faith as
the pioneers and it is because really we aren´t asked to make the same kind of
sacrifices that they did. It is through the sacrifice that we learn and grow.
And I realized that that (maybe) is one of the reasons that Heavenly Father has
asked every worthy young man to go on a mission, because it is a sacrifice and I
have felt my testimony grow in ways that it would never have been able to had I
not chosen to serve the mission. It is by far the hardest thing that I have ever
done but it is completely worth it. I am so greatful for the opportunity that I
have to be here, and I might be far away but its really a short time that i am
here for. I am just trying to soak it all in and make the most of the time that
I have left here.
I´m so proud of all
of you. THanks for everything that you do for me and for all your love and
support.
Les amo
muchisimo,
Elder Jaromy
Holland
P.S. I ordered the
Scripture cases finally and they should be here in like 3 weeks!" They are going
tobe awesome!!
PPS: GENERAL
CONFERENCE IS THIS WEEK! I´M SO STOKED!!!!! take it all in=) love
ya!
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