3 Comps in One Week and Working Two Areas

Hola

Wow where do I start this week. a lot has happened this week. Well I will start with Monday when Elder Diaz (mi hijo) left me and headed to his mission in the Republica Dominicana! Shoutout to him and I hope he is loving out there! Well I was working with Elder Flores up until Thursday and everything was going great. Thursday in the afternoon we got a call from Presidente telling us that Elder Flores had special changes and that I would be getting a new compañero and would be working both barrio Volcanes and San Buena Ventura. So as of Thursday I have been with Elder Butler and we are working two wards. Yes it has been a tough week trying to see how we can work both areas but I love it. We are working super hard and basically every night that we come home we just crash jajaja. I love this work so much, I think I might of broken or tied a record of the most comps in one week but I know that the Lord has a plan for me and that Elder Flores was needed somewhere else. I was looking forward to being with him but I know he was needed somewhere else. I guess this week that 9 Elders either went to other misiones or went home so that is why Elder Butler and I are working two areas. The mission could use a lot more misioneros. We are going to see what the Lord has in store for us this week as we work both areas, it is going to be tough but I know that we can do it! This week I heard a quote that honestly I love and it is so true and I would love to share it with you guys! "If our life and faith are central on Christ and his restored Gospel nothing will go permamanently bad" -Howard W. Hunter. I love this quote that through Christ and his restored Gospel and if we strive to do the things he asks of us he promises us that nothing will go permamenantly bad. We are the ones that make things bad when we forget why we are here and what our purpose is. God is never going to leave us, we only leave our God. Remember when times are hard your faith is being trialed and the best thing to do is put your confianza en el Señor and he will bring us out of hard times. This week we had a lesson with a family menos activa and they said to us that they can`t go to church and that they have so many problems and if they don`t keep working then everything will get worse. In some way they are right and we can`t just stop doing our part but if our part and effort has to do with not following what the Lord has sent us to do then we are not doing what the Lord wants us to do. We are only doing what we feel is right and what we feel is the best for us when in reality the Lord knows what is best for us. Put your faith in the Lord and be obedient and the Lord will help us in our times of need!

Honestly I admire Nephi so much in the Book of Mormon and his willingness to stand up to his brothers. His brothers tied him up, spit on him, beat him, and he kept pushing on. I admire him so much and his diligence and perserverance in doing what the Lord wanted him to do. When the Lord sent something for him to do he did it no matter what circumstance he was in. That is a leader and I love the scriptures where he literally stands up to his older brothers and calls them out for being the older ones but it seemed like Nephi was the older one. How grateful we have to be for our little brothers! I am so grateful for mine and the example he has to me in my life. I know sometimes I was a Laman and my brother was a Nephi telling me what to do when I was growing up de vez en cuando jajaja! Shoutout to my bro who is now 18 years old! That is crazy love you bro you are getting old jajajja! I hope that we can all try to be more of a Nephi in our lives than a Laman because there are many Laman that need our help. Let us be a light and un ejemplo in others lives. I am so grateful for the Book of Mormon and the example the prophets are to us! Hope all is well and that you have a good week!

Elder McCain

The fotos are of today and with Elder Butler