WHAT AN AWESOME WEEK!

WHAT AN AWESOME WEEK!

The work out here is booming and Elder Monteiro and I are working non stop it feels like. We were able to put 7 baptismal dates in this week! 

I got my new hat and a new belt and I look gooood. 

Took this picture with some goats this week (I don't know how to say goats in Spanish so I just use goats.) Elder Monteiro doesn't know either hahahha

Yesterday I was cutting wood with a family who we are teaching, and because it was dark we needed to get back to our house so I was trying to go fast and the hammer slipped and smashed my hand. It was dark and I couldn't see anything so I kept going. I walked in the light and saw my finger was not straight like it was supposed to be hahahha. We called President Haws and he advised it would be best to wait until today to check it out. So I put it back in place. It doesn't hurt anymore after I put it back in place, it just doesn't look normal. I can move it now before I couldn't so I am pretty sure I'm fine.

Put a band-aid on it and now we are ready to go. We can't afford to waste any time this week we have so much to do. 

We have our stake conference in Acayucan this weekend and I'm super excited to hear from President haws.

I've been really focusing on and studying the spirit of prayer. Specifically how we can improve our relationship with Heavenly Father. For me, it is difficult to explain the relationship I have with my Heavenly Father but I broke it down to three fold. As we work to better our relationship and understand the example of Jesus Christ we are able to act as hands or servants (Joshua 24:15) for the Lord. We take an interest in our father's life. As we pray and rely on Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, we take courage in our trials, that he will lift us up as we are his friend (John 15). We Trust our Father.  One of the most important is we become sons and daughters (John 1:12)  of God when we work to repent and seek help through the atonement as he understands our trials better than we do. We ask our father for advice.

When my sister, brother and I were little my Dad always emphasized these three principals and as a natural consequence life will be easier and happier. I can say that my Dad is my friend, I am his son, and because I have trusted him, I can do anything he asks, even when I cannot see the final picture. On a much more grand spectrum, this applies to our Father in Heaven as well. 

- Elder Jeppesen