Don't take advice from your fears!

Monday 13 April 2015

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ando bien, para empezar. todo tranquilo.  (Mom Googled this translation “I’m good to go. All  quiet”)

but yeah i am doing well. frankly, the days pass and i just kinda wipe that one and move on to what the next day has in store. ive never dreamed more in my entire life, every night, guaranteed, and theyre long!!! haha we wake up and during excercises just basically share what adventures i had during the night. hahahaha =) yeah, i obviously havent changed much. =) 

but the branch is doing better, everyone is a little more willing to help out just out of compassion and now we dont have the elder power to do this stuff alone anymore. but now we are going to get everything going. everything that stresses me out a lot, i am just delegating any small thing connected to it. its working out pretty well. 

hey i was going to tell you. one thing i would seriously love to do is go through A temple, dont care which, but go through as a missionary. literally if we have to, get off the plane, and go straight to the temple. cause now down here they dont let the missionaries go through the temple any more cause too many were losing flights, so if you could see what the necessary arrangements are for that that would be sick. just a video one would be fun. so, yeah just a thought. 

so we had a cool experience, saturday we got up at 5 to go to zone meeting, got there at 9 had a great meeting and came home. but one thing that i felt during that meeting is that frankly, things have been a little tough in the area lately, a lot of people falling of the wagon, we are working hard though. and i really felt that the Lord wants to see how truly dedicated im going to be in these last months. a lot of elders when they train at the end of their missions, it either helps and pushes them, or they chill and dont work. and obviously the latter is not an option. 

so we got home from the meeting, studied a little and headed out. and EVERYTHING fell through, literally, all of it. those days are the worst. =) so we ended up, way late at night, and ended up at the house of a referral, also, not home, so we leaned up against a wall for a sec to firgure out where we were going to go. and i just couldnt help but stare and this house in front of us. and all the reasons of why not to contact at that hour of the night started running through my head, but i really felt like we should just try, i told my comp lets go contact that one, imma try something different with this one. walked up, clapped, came out and it went really well=) kind of a fun way to do things. but they said sure, just a couple seconds, so we went up, got to know them real quick, shared mosiah 15,23 and because he lives. and they invited us to come back another day. a family of five. so that was really cool. just thinking how the night would have ended had we just given up and taken the advice of our doubts. 

always do the first thing that comes to your head, cause after that it is satan trying to convince you not to. and the spirit wont repeat it. 

His Work, His Way.   

Elder Whitaker