Week 96 in the Field - Straight Outta Compton and The War is On

Hey guys, I hope you´ve all had a great week.

These last few days have been pretty cool. We had a training meeting on Thursday with President Crapo that went really well. We´ve been focusing a lot more on baptism in all of our contacts and other teaching efforts. We had six investigators in church on Sunday and we have several people progressing towards baptism.

Today I´m heading off to the central market of Guatemala to buy some souvenirs. Should be pretty fun.

Hope you guys are all doing great. I´ll be enjoying my last few days as a missionary. I´m so happy for all of the personal growth I´ve seen in my own life and the work that God has been able to accomplish through me in the lives of other people.

I love this quote by Elder Jeffrey R. Holland:

"The war is on, and we have conspicuously enlisted. And certainly it is a war worth waging. But we are foolish, fatally foolish, if we believe it will be a casual or convenient thing. We are foolish if we think it will demand nothing of us.... I truly believe there can be no casual Christians, for if we are not watchful and resolute, we will become in the heat of battle a Christian “casualty.”...Surely our sometimes clichéd expressions of testimony and latter-day privilege don’t amount to much until we have had open invitation to test them in the heat of battle and have in such spiritual combat found ourselves to be faithful. ...When gospel principles get unpopular or unprofitable or very difficult to live, will we stand by them “for the duration”? That is the question our experiences in Latter-day Saint life seem most determined to answer. What do we really believe, and how true to that are we really willing to live?" 

I hope that we will be dedicated to our covenants and strive to be more that just casual Christians. I hope that we will make a concerted effort to be disciples of Christ. I´ve learned that this requires more than a passive acceptance, rather in necessitates an active commitment.

I love you all. Have a great week!

Video of the service project from the other day

Your typical street in Guatemala