08/09/18, Thursday
There were so many people
sick that there are only six people from our district in class. That was kind of weird but I honestly
really like class. So yeah, bunches of people are sick. We weren’t sure what was making us
sick.
08/10/18, Friday
Today is a good day. We learned a lot. But yeah Friday, I think I was starting
to get sick because towards the ending of the night I got chills. That night, it was so bad that I had to
ask one of my comps for their comforter.
08/11/18, Saturday
The next day, a lot of
people were sick even more than before but I was getting sore stomach and bad
diarrheas. So yeah the diarrheas wasn’t
that great a lot of water.
Hermano Ventura shared something it’s from
the fourth missionary. We really
don’t have anything to get to the Lord, but the only thing that the Lord
doesn’t have that we have is our minds and our hearts and while we’re here on a
mission and even after the mission, like if you can give him your mind and your
heart, then you’ll be truly giving Him your all because you’ll give Him
everything that you can give. And
once your mind and your heart is given to Him and you let him take control
that’s when you truly see the Lord’s hand in your work.
“Everything that you have to give to the Lord, has its origin in
Him, except one thing: your will. He does not have your heart, nor your mind,
unless you give them to Him. It is the only gift you have to offer that He does
not already have. And so when you give yourself, you truly give everything to Him.” The Fourth
Missionary By Lawrence E. Corbridge
So I thought it was really
interesting what he shared about the Fourth Missionary. And honestly like it’s the best kind of
missionary that you can be if you give everything to the Lord and you hold nothing
back then He will open the windows of heaven unto you and pour out blessings
and yeah it’s just amazing cause just like everyday teaching you still have
those little experiences where you have a lesson plan but you throw it out of
the window because of what the needs are for the investigator and you tend to
those needs and you follow where the spirit guides.
So we walked in class one
day and there’s this random quote on the board. I don’t know who wrote it but it was after the devotional so
it could have been anybody honestly but it says, ”Believe you’ll make it. Give your worry up and let Him take
it.” I really like this quote
because no matter what, everything that you go through if you turn to the Lord,
then He’ll take your worries, He’ll make your burden easy. I forgot which scripture but there’s a
scripture in Mosiah where the Lord says, “come unto me and I’ll make your
burdens easy and I will lift them off your shoulders and make them light.” I think especially in the field when I
get there, things will be super tough but as long as I am doing what I need to
do and turn to the Lord then nothing can go wrong.
08/12/18, Sunday
I had the opportunity to
bless the Sacrament in Spanish that was pretty cool. Spanish is such a super cool language and especially the
gift of tongues and learning with the spirit. There’s no better way to learn it. One of our branch leaders I think the first counselor, he
came up to me after the Sacrament meeting and he said my Spanish is really good
but it’s all thanks to the Lord. I
guess I don’t see the progress but it’s slowly coming.
Today we found out what
was making all of us sick. It was
the Noro virus. I think it’s
spelled NORO. It’s the kind of
virus that you get on cruise ships.
Someone that came to the MTC brought the Noro Virus. Since I was still kinda sick, after
church the doctor ordered me to stay home and rest for the day. I was pretty bummed out but I stayed in
the house and studied. I just sat
there reading the scriptures so that was cool but I wanted so bad to go to the
devotionals that they have on Sundays but couldn’t.
08/13/18, Monday
Today, I went to class and
I learned a lot. It was a good day
but then all of a sudden after lunch when the Zone and district leaders had their
meeting after gym time, they told me that I have to stay home if I have
symptoms for three or more days so I listened to them. I stayed in again. I studied, cleaned and did whatever,
studied some Spanish so I could keep up.
I prayed a lot when I was sitting there at home with the other sick
missionaries and the Lord comforted me!
08/14/18, Tuesday
I feel much better today
so I went to class and it was good.
Devotional tonight was pretty good. So first of there were two musical numbers. They were really good and I got to sing
in the choir. We sang Grande Eres
Tu or How Great Thou Art and the song sounded so beautiful!
Then we heard from
President and Sister Stapley.
Sister Stapley started her talk and she first talked about how the past
is behind and we need to learn from it.
So the first story she talked about was the story of Achilles and how it
was prophesied that he would die in battle one day so his mother took him to
the river Styxs and bathed him but she was holding him by his heel… so
everything in his body was made immortal except for his heel and that led her
to toss that even the littlest things can cause us to fall. We as missionaries are urged to follow
exact obedience otherwise we would struggle in the mission. She also talked about how weakness
leads us to God because sin leads us away but weakness tends to lead us towards
the Lord. That make me think
of Ether 12:27 “Come unto me and I will show unto you your weakness and I will
make weak things strong unto them”.
It’s humbling to know that everywhere were weak and we need somebody to
make it up for us.
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