Elder Josh Holtry's Mission Blog: Con Fe en Cristo

Hello, good day! How goes it? Just to throw out a random fun fact for you, Elder Tito and I have made a pact to not kill ants. So when we´re walking, we have to be very careful so that we don´t step on them. The other day we were in our apartment planning for the next day, and I saw an ant strolling along on the ground. I thought to myself "Great, we can´t do anything about this..." But in the end, we threw it out the window, because that doesn´t count. We can safely assume that the wind carried it a few blocks, to where it landed in a convenient pile of pillows. :) Also, a funny thing that happened this Sunday was in the Gospel Principles class. We were going around in a circle, Saying who we were, what type of season we prefer, and how we´ve seen the hand of God that week. When it was Roberto´s turn (Our investigator that´s about 80) he said "I accept any climatical condition that I must experience..." hahaha good man.

Well, it´s been a good week. We finally got our new cell phone (So that we can actually call people) and we got to go to the temple (I love it!). along with that we´ve found several new people to teach, so we´re just chugging along. Oh ya, a little shout out to Dylan Wright, who completed his mission in England this last week! That man inspires me, and he served an incredible mission!

Well, just one thing i´d like to share is the importance that the mission has had in my life. As i´ve said before, this is NOT easy... but as i strive to get better and serve the Lord and my fellow man, I can feel myself getting closer to the Lord, bit by bit. One thing specifically that I´ve noticed this week is that my desires to be obedient and follow the mission rules has grown a ton. In the beginning, i was just obedient because that was what I needed to do, now I want to do my best to be obedient to follow the Lord, and be worthy of his blessings. I like something that a Zone leader once said. "Exact Obedience doesn´t bring Miracles, Exact Obedience with Faith in Christ brings Miracles" We have to feel it! So, maybe we need to start by just doing the things we need to, but in time, it´ll change us until it´s apart of us.

Well, I hope that made sense. As always, I´d like to send you my many thanks! Forward, pressing Forward.

Elder Holtry

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