What a great week!
First, transfer information...
Drum Roll. bdbdbdbbdbdbdbd
Transfered!
I leave Thursday to a new area. Beside myself, 2 missionaries in our zone are finishing their missions, Elder Moss and Sister Done. Sister Espinoza will also be transferred. This is all very exciting because with only 5 changes amongst 23 missionaries, they will all have a chance to get into the groove of their area, they will build relationships with the members of their wards, and I've seen that the most success comes after at least 3 months of service in the same congregation.
We got involved with a different service organization this week. The name escapes me, but they prepare food bags for children who go home to empty kitchens on the weekends so they have something to eat until school again on Monday. We found it through just serve and it was a delightful surprise to find the shift we chose to be filled with members of the LDS church! It was by coincidence a ward picked the same shift we had, but how great that members of the church are getting out there and giving so freely of their time. It is inspiring to work with such a good caliber of people. I was the plastic bag tie-er at the end of the assembly line guy/ put the big bucket of bags in the truck guy.
Elder Gonzalez was sick for 4 days of the week. He just had some crazy congestion that eventually got so bad it hurt his ear and we thought we had an ear infection. So we took him to a clinic and it was thankfully a false alarm.
Our Ward Mission Leader, Brother G., had some heart trouble this week, so after sacrament meeting we took he and his family the sacrament and gave him a blessing in the hospital.
A less active member of the Spanish branch called us on Friday and asked if we could say a prayer over his house because he thought there was a bad spirit there... oh brother... Spanish branches.. We went but it turned out to be a front. He wanted to vent to us about his divorce we was going through. The first thought that came to mind was, what commandment have you been breaking? He said they'd grown apart, and I know that isn't something that just happens. So we kept silent and waited until the end to bear testimony of the priesthood keys our branch president holds and then encouraged him to schedule an interview. He said they don't have the best relationship, and we told him to get past it because he needs to rely on that personal representative of Christ in his life. Anyways, we hope he mans up by humbling himself to do it. It would be a little tragedy to end a temple marriage.
What else has happened, well, as a mission we've been focusing on some chapters that are dense with doctrine on the plan of redemption. I've learned that the chains of hell are nothing more than the deceptions of the adversary. He was a liar from the beginning, set on bringing glory to his name and misery to the human family. Anything that detracts or even distracts from the message of the gospel of Christ in its fulness: faith in christ by repentance to attain mercy are the chains of hell. As we choose to accept greater light by exercising that faith in christ our ability to discern between the chains of hell and the word of God is increased. As we harden our hearts, and choose to reject the word of God, we will lose light, and will decrease in understanding of the plan of redemption so subtley until we find ourselves living contrary to the plan and living as if the redemption of christ was never made. I pray we may all soften our hearts, receive the greater portion of the word of God, and abound in that light until the perfect day.
I love you!
Please stay salty!
I love you!
Elder Tyler Meidell
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