Church?

I have been studying why it is important to come to church on Sunday with the end goal of being able to testify and invite amiguitos with more power and authority. My boy Élder Smith also is focusing on that, so in our exchange #34 we practiced how to simply teach and invite EVERY SOUL to choich. 

My strat:

I used to do it like this, because idk why not?

-  "Queremos invitarle a orar y leer el Libro de Mormón y orar para saber si enseña la doctrina verdadera de Jesucristo, y venir a la capilla este domingo a las 10!"

It wasn't bringing many to church, so I simply switched up the order, helping them realize what invitation was the most important right now.

- "Queremos invitarle a venir a la capilla este domingo a las 10 para experimentar el evangelio restaurado. (Wait for answer, it'll be "sí" hopefully) Y leer el Libro de Mormón y orar para saber si lo que hemos enseñado es verdad!"

¿Lo ves? / Do you see it?

I was mind blown, all that happened was the order of pray, read, and church switched. And bam! It worked!!!! We had three little families pull up to choiiiiiiich. I know it wasn't actually for the words any missionary (including me) said; I think God was waiting to show us these families until we thought about the importance of going to church. Because they came, and now I understand way better what that means. God is good at his job.

If you are having trouble feeling that church is important for you to go to every Sunday, or if you don't usually look forward to Sundays, and everyone has felt like that before. I invite you to sit down and figure it out. Look up "sabbath day" or "sacrament" or "Sunday" and read all the scriptures and talks about it until you realize how important and maybe even hype going to church with the fellow saints is! 

Elder Hill is a wheely master!

Élder Hill is quite skilled on a bicicleta. He can wheelie (caballero) on a whim and bunny hop. He does a little of that Danny McCaskill stuff tambien. I shall learn both

Yummy potato and meatball soup I made!

Made from scratch!!!

Meanwhile, the lads are whipping up every day in the kitchen. Those pots and pans and ingredients are now my instruments. On Saturday night we cheffed up street tacos with homemade tortillas, sí, from scratch. They were a little thick and a little heavenly. The cheese was un poco melty and the meat was una poquita fiesta en la boca. I want to cook them again. Also, cooking chicken in the oven is a game changer, I never knew.

Joseph Smith

I am grateful for Joseph Smith. He was a normal kid with questions but he was different because he was a kid of his word and also he was chosen by God to be a prophet. So that's a big difference, but when you think about who he was, he was very normal. He had a massive purpose, to restore the church of Jesus!! And a lot of ignorant people hated him for that. One time while he was in jail, he asked God why he was suffering so much. God said,

"If thou shouldst be cast into the pit, or into the hands of murderers, and the sentence of death passed upon thee; if thou be cast into the deep; if the billowing surge conspire against thee; if fierce winds become thine enemy; if the heavens gather blackness, and all the elements combine to hedge up the way; and above all, if the very jaws of hell shall gape open the mouth wide after thee, know thou, my son, that all these things shall give thee experience, and shall be for thy good.

 The Son of Man hath descended below them all. Art thou greater than he? 

Therefore, hold on thy way, and the priesthood shall remain with thee; for their bounds are set, they cannot pass. Thy days are known, and thy years shall not be numbered less; therefore, fear not what man can do, for God shall be with you forever and ever."

How can this change your attitude?

Love, Elder Ditto