This week was transfers, and..... Elder Amato and I are staying together!
That´s right, im officially killing my first companion in the mission! I think I
will keep learning a lot for sure.
Also, my first trainer, my dad, Elder Ichuro has finished his mission and
goes home this same week. I can´t believe how fast the time is going! It seems
like yesterday (Probably since I'm right next door 😆) I was in Tintal rocking it
with Elder Ichuro! The sisters from my group have also finished the mission this
week. I saw Sister Rocabado from my group, who is from Argentina, get born here
in La Libertad with me and then die here in La Libertad! Crazysauce!
Anyways, this week was pretty good. I learned a lot for myself about the
Hope of Christ and how important Hope is. It is so necesary for this work. We
have been contacting, but it has not nearly been working in our area. I told my
companion this, and I realized that I had almost no hope that the people were
being prepared to listen or that anybody would want to listen. And so one
morning in Personal Study I studied about the Christ-like Atribute of Hope. I
read Ether 12:4. Which talks about how those who believe in God can "have hope
of a better world." So that's what I decided to do, be more hopeful, and more
faithful that people would listen to our message. And so we went out and put it
into practice, and guess what happened! The people didn't change much, there were
still people that weren't very interested. But I looked past that and knew and had
hope that we would find people. And we did! We contacted some great people, and
this week should have some new investigators. I know that without hope, we
cannot acomplish what God asks of us. But when we exercise our faith and we hope
that things will go better, they do.
I love missionary work, because it lets me love other people. I love the
people of Colombia because so many of them need this gospel. I'm happy to be
working for the Lord.
Love,
Elder Kendall
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