It was Valentines day the other day here in Ecuador, not sure about the USA. We don´t really do anything for valentines day as missionaries though haha. We had a great week as normal here in Ecuador. We brought some new investigators to church this week and we`re going to be teaching them. We visited a less active family who came on Sunday which I was really happy about, as the Prophet has said we need to go to the rescue! Plus, one of the daughters of that family that came is not baptized yet! So we have an investigator to teach there. We`ve been teaching an investigator named Jesus, who is a reference of another investigator we have. He loves coming to church. We`re also teaching Elisabeth who has been coming to church for a while and we`re preparing here to be baptized.
A small lesson I`ve learned on diligence this week: It was Sunday night and we were close to the apartment at 7:30PM (We have to be in the house at 9:00). We had already gone to church and gotten our investigators there and walked around going to appointments all day. It went through my head ¨It`s the end of the week. Our feet are a little tired. We already got the investigators to church which is one of the most important things. Our current investigators aren`t home to teach right now.
Why don`t we just go back home now and get some extra time to sleep?´¨
It seemed logical at the time but out of a sense of obedience we decided to walk to the other side of our sector and teach a recent convert we knew would be home. In reality we didn`t get time to teach much. We more just talked with him for 15 minutes cause we had to leave. On the way walking back home I was thinking that we should have just gone home and gotten that extra sleep, when this 17 year old kid and his mom stopped us and asked us for help tying his tie for school the next day. I ¨messed up¨ tying the tie a couple of times while we talked to them and told them why we are here. They showed us to there house and said they would love to hear our message. They seem super nice and we have an appointment for Tuesday. A small blessing from God for a little obedience and diligence on our part.
I know that through obedience to the commandments we receive blessings from God. This is the work of the Lord and I`m grateful to be here as a missionary. I know this is the Church of Jesus Christ and that he directs it.
Have an awesome week!
Elder Pollock
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