bien.
We went on a few tranfers or comp switches this week. It's real neat taking out our new, greener than an avacado, elders out and help them feel a little more at ease and help them understand that they won't be with their trainers forever. It's the best to go visit their areas because I can show up and tell THEIR investigators that I don't know spanish which make the new elders have to teach mostly by themselves. Aren't I just the worst..
We put a real solid fecha with an older fellow in my first week here, he's been progressing and assisting church. He's called Diomedes and he has great faith. A man whose lost it all and is starting over from nothing. Which has also lead him to the elders and the church. We have discussed it well, and we're gonna see if we can't preform his baptism in el mar (the sea) with a few others. those would be a very inspired and memorable baptisms. I can just see it all right now.
And as a ward we're headed to to temple! yippah! We are excited to bring some of our investigators to come and see what our big shiny palace is all about. I love teaching out there on temple grounds. It really helps people understand the why when it comes to preparing ourselves for these ordinances.
I'll see if I can't throw on some pictures of these last two weeks. We've been moving around all over the place, between meetings, exchanges, and all kind of little things that require out attention. Busy busy busy busy.
I'll leave you with a cool scripture my companion pointed out to me in our companion study --
Alma 37:41
Nevertheless, because those miracles were worked by smallmeans it did show unto them marvelous works. They wereslothful, and forgot to exercise their faith and diligence and then those marvelous works ceased, and they did not progress in their journey;
Elder Buehner explained it to me this way, he said: '' Every testimony is a miracle, and when we feel like the miracle has happened and we are safe because we have a testimony, we're wrong. We need to have that ''miracle'' happen every day.'' It's something to think about. Then this scripture came to mind 2 Nephi 29 from about v 3 - 14. Replace the word bible for testimony. Pretty neat.
Loving the mission. Loving all this support but I really hope it's not just the missionaries taking all the chances to share the gospel. Go do it!
Love ya lots
Elder Tate
foto 1 - big blue
foto 2 - biggest avacado i've ever held
foto 3 - blub blub . . lion fish!
foto 4 - conference time / boca chica style
foto 5 - sun goes up
foto 6- sun goes down
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