Week 88 in the Field - 7, Raw Milk, and Glasses

Weekly Letter June 20, 2016

Hey guys; I hope everyone has had a great week.

This week has treated us pretty well. We have about 7 investigators who we thing can really progress and be baptized and we continue to see fruits of our reactivation efforts.

This week I  found out that there's a guy who drives around Teculutan selling fresh cow milk. I bought some from him and since it's unpasteurized I had to boil it but it is super tasty. All stores in Guatemala exclusively sell ultra pasteurized milk that doesn't need to be refrigerated and costs like $1.50 a liter. But his guy sells the real stuff for like $0.70 a liter. How didn't I know about this earlier?

This week we had branch conference and the district president told a neat story that I'd like to share. The district president uses glasses and he had a pair that just wouldn't fit on his head. The glasses always looked lop-sided in the mirror and one day he bent and twisted the glasses so much with the intent to get them to fit right that the glasses broke. He went to the optometrist and they told him that the glasses weren't the cause of the problem, it was his face! He has facial asymmetry and one eye is a tiny bit higher on his face than the other. He wasn't trying to adjust a bad pair of glasses to his symmetrical face; he was trying to adjust a good pair of glasses to his asymmetrical face. 

The district president went on to explain that this is what many people do with the gospel. Instead of molding themselves to the gospel they want to mold the gospel to themselves and it doesn't work. The problem lies not in the gospel; but in ourselves. When we try to bend a commandment or twist a principle the gospel ceases to bring us blessings because when we almost keep a commandment God almost blesses us. 

I know this to be true and I hope that each of us will strive to be obedient so that we might receive the blessings God has in store for us.

I love you all; have a great week!

-Elder Dawson

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Divisions with the Elders from Guastatoya