Patience🎈 🏃🏻

So this week was really awesome, a lot of good things happened this
week. To start off we almost hit our weekly goals that we set for this
last week, I honestly can't remember when was the last time we even
got close to hitting the weekly goals, I guess we worked harder this
week. Something that is for sure is that I've tracted more projects
this week then any other time of my mission, usually we just tract
regular buildings but this week we decided to tract some projects and
guess what?? We didn't find anybody haha I guess we're gonna stick to
tracting regular buildings in the future, plus there were not very
many people that spoke Spanish in the projects anyways and they stunk
so bad, pretty much in every single project we went to in smelled like
pee and garbage, because people just leave trash bags outside in the
hall and people just pee in the elevators because nobody cares😷😝

We finally got a new ward mission leader because our old ward mission
leader moved to Utah, the last time we had a ward mission leader was
my 3rd cycle, that was like 8 weeks ago and they called one this
Sunday so hopefully with a ward mission leader the work gets better
then it was before.

On Sunday we set a marriage date with the Hernandez family so that
they can be baptized, they set it for the 16th of April, that's right
before the next transfers so I will be able to be here for it, that's
awesome! So I think I mentioned Gustavo before but he's their son and
his records got lost, so he has to get retaught everything and and get
rebaptized and his baptism is gonna be on the 19th of this month so
I'm also really excited for that😄 the whole family has progressed so
much since I got here and it's been really cool to see them turn
around completely because before they didn't want to do anything with
the church.

On Monday we taught this cool kid, he looks like he's 30 but he's only
19, and we had a really good lesson with him on the restoration, he
seems like he has a lot of potential and he agreed to read the Book of
Mormon, hopefully he turns out to be a legit investigator that's gonna
progress, but we just have to be patient and take it one step at a
time.

Speaking of being patient I had to give a talk on patience for the
zone meeting this Monday and I learned a lot from what I had to study
and share in this training. I'm gonna write down a part of a general
conference talk that helped me to better understand patience. As we
are patient with the lord in our trials or whatever is happening in
our lives sooner or later he will help us overcome those things if we
do what he says and keep his commandments. I hope that this does some
good to somebody, because it did to me.

What, then, does it mean to wait upon the Lord? In the scriptures, the
word wait means to hope, to anticipate, and to trust. To hope and
trust in the Lord requires faith, patience, humility, meekness,
long-suffering, keeping the commandments, and enduring to the end.
To wait upon the Lord means planting the seed of faith and nourishing
it “with great diligence, and … patience.” Waiting upon the Lord means
pondering in our hearts and “receiving the Holy Ghost” so that we can
know “all things what we should do.” As we follow the promptings of
the Spirit, we discover that “tribulation worketh patience” and we
learn to “continue in patience until we are perfected.” Waiting upon
the Lord means to “stand fast” and “press forward” in faith, “having a
perfect brightness of hope.” It means “relying alone upon the merits
of Christ” and “with His grace assisting us, saying: Thy will be done,
O Lord, and not ours. As we wait upon the Lord, we are “immovable in
keeping the commandments,” knowing that we will “one day rest from all
our afflictions.” And we “cast not away … our confidence” that “all
things wherewith we have been afflicted shall work together for our
good.”


Love,
Elder Pugmire🗡