Hello everyone!
I hope you've all had a good week (or at least productive one)!
This week was a little weird. We're still trying to get to know all the people here which is going kinda slow. And the area book for this area was super unorganized. In the more than 130 people that we had in the records with having interest, 83 of them didn't even have an address. So, this weekend we spent almost 2 days just sending messages to people organizing the books. We spent 2 days just sitting down sending messages untill our WhatsApp got blocked for sending spam, haha, then going out and doing street contacts or visiting people. But now our records are more organized and we can see what's actually going on here.
I can feel that the works starting to pick up here. We've finally got an idea of what's going on, so we can make a plan to help. This week is going to be the best yet here in Assunção!
One thing that I've found out here is that as missionaries, we're always teaching the basics, or the primary answers. Read the scriptures, pray and go to church. Because these realy are the thing most important to have faith and to grow our faith. Someone may have all the scriptural knowledge in the world, but if they don't go to church and pray their faith is going to diminish. Someone can go to church every Sunday without fail, but if they don't study the scriptures and pray their faith with diminish. Someone can pray every single day, morning, night, and at every meal, but if they don't read the scriptures or go to church, their faith will diminish.
Alma 28:30 ...for unto him that receiveth I will give more; and from them that shall say, We have enough, from them shall be taken away even that which they have.
It is in these primary thing that we grow our faith. When we do all these things and stay firm, even if it doesn't look like our faith is growing, He will give us more. When we fail at doing these primary thing, the simple stuff, we move backwards, our faith diminishes. There is no standing still on the covenant path. There's moving forward and moving backwards. Choose which way you want to go and stuck with it. Stay on the covenant path, do the easy things, the primary things, and your faith will grow.
Have an amazing week!
Elder Bliss
Here's the google photo, I'll put pictures of our zone Churrasco with President and Sister Moura here in a bit!
