Alright so this week was a really weird one and a really stressing one. We had a zone switch this last Wednesday and we all took turns in an area that wasn´t in our district so I thought that was pretty cool. I really enjoyed working in a whole different area and with the newbie that was there. In this particular area there was a lot of . . .. . . Interesting people and some in the best kind of way. We had 2 people at the same time contact us! other people contacting us! it was really weird and the fact that there was 2 of them made it even better. I hope that they did well in that other area. Then I got back to my area and apparently there was a couple miracles that happened. Then we worked with a guy named Omar that needs to get married. . . . . what is this issue that seems to go around! everyone needs to get married over here! but that´s fine it´s all good. We got permission to baptize him and we made a couple of changes in his living situation so that he could have the opportunity. And then we are teaching this one guy named louis who drinks a lot and other stuff. We gave him a really good lesson on the atonement and he just couldn´t wrap his mind around the fact that no matter what he did in the past he could still be cleaned of all sin. He has the desire to change but he doesn´t think it should be this fast. . . . . but really he´s been prepared all his life for this. :) other than that it has been a regular week. I can´t complain at all and I am really enjoying what we´re doing right now. My companion was the funniest this week! whenever he got picked to say the prayer he would say "¿es porque soy negro?" which the translation is "because I´m black?" hahah I laughed so hard this week! Man that´s my companion for ya. he keeps saying stuff like that like he said one time that someone called him the n word and he said he didn´t even flinch and his companion was really surprised and asked him about it and said what´s the problem? I´m black! hahahaha I laughed so hard.
This week I learned a huge thing in the new testament. It was about the woman who had weak blood (that´s the literal translation) and it said that she went to a lot doctors and they all gave her some type of treatment that didn´t help. It also says (in Spanish) tuvo muchisimo medico and the phrase we use "go to the doctor" also means "ir al medico" in Spanish and it dawned on me that she probably tried everything she probably was told by a lot doctors that she would never get better and that her condition was going to be permanent. But she had the faith and the initiative to only think that I need to touch the mantel of Jesus and I will be whole again. WHAT FAITH!! I think that´s a great example for us in these times that the world will tell you and get into your head that you will never be the same or you will never have the ability to do something but in reality "I can do all things through Christ" I think that I really need this mentality especially in the mission where God is ever present. It´s almost like the story of everyone getting bit by THE SNAKE and all they had to do was look at a brass snake and be healed. I feel like with that there might have been some effort needed well more than just turning a head but who knows. All I know is that the atonement is a lot simpler than people think and all they need to do is repent accept the love and at least try to do better and follow God´s will.
I LOVE YOU ALL
GOSPEL IS TRUE I PROMISE
NEVER TIRE OF GOOD WORKS MY FRIENDS
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ELDER NISSON
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