Week 91 in the Field - Transfers, Jumique Family, and the Common Law of Life

Well, I´m being transferred to Guatemala City to finish my mission!

Teculután has treated me well. This week we placed a baptismal date with each of the members of Henry Jumique´s family. They´re reading the Book of Mormon and want to know if the church is true. Henry says he already got his answer and he´s helping his family a lot.

I like this poem I heard in a talk by Sterling W Sill:

“The tree that never had to fight
For sun and sky and air and light,
But stood out in the open plain
And always got its share of rain,
Never became a forest king
But lived and died a scrubby thing.

The man who never had to toil to live,
Who never had to win his share
Of sun and sky and light and air,
Never became a manly man
But lived and died as he began.

“Good timber does not grow at ease,
The stronger wind, the stronger trees.
The further sky, the greater length,
The more the storm, the more the strength.

By sun and cold, in rain and snow,
in trees and men good timbers grow.
Where thickest lies the forest growth
We find the patriarchs of both.
And they hold council with the stars
Whose broken branches show the scars
Of many winds and much of strife.
This is the common law of life.”

I Love you all, have a great week!

Elder Ruiz, Kimberly, Andrea, and the Lobos Family

Branch President, President Morales