Count Your Blessings

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This week was a good one with Elder Callirgos. I am getting to know him better and I really enjoy being with him. This week I have had the oportunity to really think about the blessings I have. This week I was reading in Alma 5 and it really helps us to reflect on what we are doing as hijos del Padre to recieve the blessings necesarias. As I was reading this week I really thought about my mission and how it is hard sometimes to teach and be diligent but I do it because I love the Lord and the blessings are what keep me going. There are times in my mission when I have asked myself what I am doing wrong because we aren´t having exito or what I can do better. I think sometimes as humans we ask for a lot of things from our Padre Celestial and he really wants to help us. Sometimes the help that we need is for us to look for an answer ourselves instead of it just being given to us. I have seen in my mission many that pray to know if the messages we teach are true but they aren´t reading the Book of Mormon and trying to find out for themselves. They just want to have the answer without working for it. There are 3 scriptures that really draw my attention and that I have had in my mind most of my mission for when I wonder why after I ask for something and it doesn´t happen the way I asked it. They are in Alma 60:21-23 and they say: 

21 Or do ye suppose that the Lord will still deliver us, while we sit upon our thrones and do not make use of the means which the Lord has provided for us?

22 Yea, will ye sit in idleness while ye are surrounded with thousands of those, yea, and tens of thousands, who do also sit in idleness, while there are thousands round about in the borders of the land who are falling by the sword, yea, wounded and bleeding?

23 Do ye suppose that God will look upon you as guiltless while ye sit still and behold these things? Behold I say unto you, Nay. Now I would that ye should remember that God has said that the inward vessel shall be cleansed first, and then shall the outer vessel be cleansed also.

Before looking for the answers we need to look at how we can find the way and then the Lord will do the rest. This is so true and I think that sometimes the natural man can beat us through laziness and many things. Maybe instead of asking why something happened or asking for an answer we can try to ask what we need to do to receive an answer. This week was great for Elder Callirgos and I we entered in a lot of houses. We started the week off by asking what we could do to find more people to teach and I know that the Lord put the medios. 

Yesterday unfortunately we had 0 investigadores in the capilla but I know the Lord blessed us because right before we entered Consejo de Rama I heard someone call my name. I turned around and un Hno told me that someone was looking for me. I look and there were 2 señoras and they asked me to do an interview in English jajjaja I have done so many of those here. Also after we did the interview they asked us to go to their house and that they want to learn more what we do and that before the missionaries visited them. It has been frustrating to see many investigadores not progress very fast but the Lord is putting them in our camino. We are really hoping to baptize 5 on the 19th of Enero. This week was a good week and I am looking forward to next week. I would like to share a quote that I heard this week too that I liked jajja and it is also has to do with working. "Work will win when wishy washy washing won´t." Just work hard and the Lord will do the rest. Hope everyone had a good week!

Elder McCain