Dear Family,
How are you all it sounds like you all had a fun time in DC I
can barely remember Dc now ha-ha I cant even imagine how big it is and I remember
it’s not the biggest city in the world but a lot bigger than any city here ha-ha.
This week has been great we have been finding a lot of
people that are ready and willing I get amazed every day in the people that God
just puts in your path and they have just been waiting for you just to talk to
them. I have always pondered on the reasons I am with the companion that I have
or why am I in this area why certain things didn’t happen like they were
planned why is it that I have to go through this at this moment even if I was
doing what I was supposed lots of things (someday I’ll tell you all of them)
But I have never doubted where I have gone or where I have been has been a
mistake I know I am where I am supposed to be even if it isn’t what I was hoping
for or what others told me was going to happen. I’ve helped a lot of people and
sometimes it has been for my companion but recently it has been for the missionaries
that I am watching out for.
Today I had an experience with an elder in my zone we had
our zone training today and we talked about how to teach by the spirt how to
work by him what we need to do to be worthy to feel it and be guided by him and
everything to do with that.
Well it turned out to be very powerful and everyone felt and
learned a lot. Except for this one elder...he asked to talk with me and I
talked to him and with my companion and his and he just started to
go off not in a yelling very rude manner but he started to try to blame you can
say us because he claimed that he didn’t feel the spirit at all especially when
I was talking and he wanted that I asked him for forgiveness for not feeling
the spirt (because he claimed that is humility) I looked at him not mad but
incredibly sad I could understand more how Jesus felt even when he taught
people accused him to be of the devil and that they felt nothing...I looked at
him and simply said Elder I’m sorry that you lost this great chance to learn
but you need to understand something it isn’t my fault that you didn’t feel the
spirt it’s your own there is nothing I can do to make you feel the spirt I can
invite him to take part in the lesson but for you to feel him you got to let
him in. Well he didn’t like that and he began saying I wanted to learn I wanted
to feel the spirit but I didn’t. It came to the point I began to see his
problem he believed that through words and from who it comes from it can make
them feel the spirt and that the person can transmit the spirt to them just by
that and it’s for that reason he thought it was my fault that he didn’t feel
the spirt because he felt that it was my responsivity to transfer the spirt to him...I
have always felt that it really doesn’t matter what you say especially if its
pure knowledge but that you say it with enough humility even if it’s just
simple words like I know this is true and with feelings and love that the
spirit magnifies it and just puts it in the heart of the person and if they
accept it the accept it and know it is true but if they reject it they do it by
their own will. I’ll have to finish the story the next week because I don’t
have time but I love you all
Elder Toma
Guatemala Ciudad Central Mission
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