Well, this week has certainly been interesting! One fun
thing that happen was that I got yelled at a bit by a paraguayo... hahaha! I
contacted this lady with her child in the street, and all was going pretty
well, we were talking about the gospel and such, ad out of nowhere this guy
comes up, and starts saying "Don´t you have anything better to do
than..." blah blah blah and the suchlike. And the do you want to throw
pineapples? (Pretty much means throw fists in Spanish) But ya... oh well, in
contrast to that, one nice thing that happened was with another contact. We
were walking down the street, and we passed a man who seemed to be working to
fix the bottom part of his gate outside, fumbling around with his keys and
whatnot. I asked him if he needed help, and he said no, but asked us
where we were from (In respect to church) we answered him, and started a
conversation. He said it was interesting that we offered to help him,
because in these days, usually people will just pass on by without even saying
hello. We taught a bit about the gospel, and seriously, the spirit was
super strong there. Well, wish you could have been there;)
Also, i just want to throw in another note from conference.
Meditizar! or, Ponderize i think it is in English. Choose a scripture every
week, memorize it, but ponder it as well. Mine from this week was Matthew
1: 39, which in English is something like, "He that seeks to save his life,
will lose it, and he that loses his life, for my cause, will find it. "
Just something quick that I was thinking was that as we focus on helping others,
we lift ourselves also. I´ve been pondering joy with this as well, how
sometimes we´re unhappy about others successes. One quote from a talk that
"Just because God is smiling on someone else, it doesn´t mean that he´s
frowning on you". If we can delight in the success of others, we
essentially have an endless source of joy. temporal things like eating,
sleeping, and (To get more intense) alcohol, drugs, and things like that only
provide a temporal happiness, in the moment. It´s through charity and love
of others, delighting in the goodness of others also, that we can find a lasting
joy. And obviously, this joy is complete when the knowledge and support of
the gospel of Jesus Christ is added to the mix.
Well, as always, i hope that all makes sense, i write these more
or less a little fast... Anyways,
¡Les quiero!
-Elder Holtry
FOTOS: Nothing fancy this
week, just something Elder House made for me. Still, pretty cool, right?
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