Elder Jakob Lutze: Semana 72 (#Goals/Miracles)

Buenas!!!

This was a good week! Very busy and exhausting, but good! So let's get into it shall we...

We started off with an intercambios on Tuesday. That was fun! I was with Elder Perez.He is super awesome! We had some good lessons, and a cool experience at dinner! We went to eat at a member's house whom the Elders had never eaten with before. While at the dinner a guy named Alexander showed up. The members gave him food and he started to cry because he hadn't eaten all day, and he doesn't have work. It was quite the spiritual/emotional moment.

Fun fact, I actually recognized the dude because my comp and I had contacted him a while back. The member wanted us to help figure out where he lived and which missionaries could go teach him. Well, interestingly enough, my companion and I were the only ones who already knew where he lived! So, we passed by a few days later and started teaching him. God's timing is pretty cool! Just like a wise turtle once said, "There are no accidents!"

The next day (Wednesday) we had another intercambio! It was good! I was with Elder Leon. He is an interesting little fellow... but it was a good time!

District council was good too! In the end, we did this little activity of sharing a spiritual experience with another missionary. And it was amazing! It was interesting for me because I was with a missionary who I didn't get along with too well. But, after sharing our experiences, we had a lot more respect for each other and became a lot better friends!

Friday as a mission, we did a "Día en la Finca." Basically we set apart time in the day to just go find people! My comp and I set a goal of 10 people. We were running around like madmen! We found and taught 8 people, but it was getting pretty late. We thought about ending the day, but we had made a goal. We were pretty determined to complete the goal. So off we went looking! We felt impressed to contact this one house, and there ended up being 2 people there. We had a super good lesson with them! #Goals/Miracles

CPEC!!! Gotta love doing CPECs! I must say I'm starting to get used to waking up at 4:30/5. Not really, it kills me. But it makes waking up at 6:30 a lot easier for sure! This CPEC was for sure interesting, but we don't need to talk about that

Church was really good too! Lots of people started their resolution of "reactivate in the church" strong! Testimony meeting was on fire! A lady dropped bars when she said, "Donde hay amor, está el Señor."

The class was fun as well! I kinda feel bad tho... the teacher wanted to do a practice of explaining the Book of Mormon to a nonmember. She picked a member, and she picked me to help. I was like "perfect! I explain the Book of Mormon everyday! This will be fun!"

Well, it turns out that she made me the nonmember. And worse was that she wanted me to ask questions about the Book. I kinda looked at her with a face saying "are you sure about that?" But, that's what she wanted. The thing is, I have a decent amount of time on the mission and I have taught an INSANE amount of Católicos and Evangélicos. The poor member didn't know what was coming for him.

He explained what the Book of Mormon was, and invited me to read it. Then I destroyed him with a single question. I honestly felt really bad. But at the same time it was pretty funny.

Spiritual Thought :)

1 Nephi 4: 15 we read "Yea, and I also thought that they could not keep the commandments of the Lord according to the law of Moses, save they should have the law."

SCRIPTURES ARE SO IMPORTANT! Without the scriptures, we can't follow God and obey Him. That also means that we can't receive the blessings from obeying God! If we don't know how to follow God, how would we be able to receive blessings from our faithfulness and obedience? You can't. And the sad problem today is that many people don't even know the 10 commandments! Let alone other blessings and commandments God has for us.

I listened to a conference talk where the speaker made a pretty funny joke.

One man once said to his friend, “I will give you five dollars if you can repeat any one of the Ten Commandments.” His friend accepted the challenge and proceeded to demonstrate his knowledge by saying, “Now I lay me down to sleep. I pray the Lord my soul to keep. If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take.” His friend said, “Here’s the money. I didn’t think that you could do it.”

Anyways, you get the point.

Love y'all! Have a great week! Keep praying for my people and my zone! Until Next week!

-E. Lutze