God Is Good

This week was a week.

I'd like to start off with a scripture: "For how knoweth a man the master whom he has not served, and who is a stranger unto him, and is far from the thoughts and intents of his heart?" (Mosiah 5:13).

This week, when I was sitting in a sacrament meeting, I realized why it hurts so badly when someone doesn't keep their word, and I was really relating it to covenants. I truthfully feel so much pain and let down when someone doesn't keep a commitment. And I think it's because I know how the Savior feels about His children. You truly come to love the people and desire the best for them, wanting them to understand it in the way that you see it. You can see what they'll become when you picture them dressed in white, and they just don't see their own potential like you do. It kind of just hurts you inside, and you're not even mad; you're just super disappointed. I think this is how He may feel when we say we will always remember Him, serve others, keep the commandments, or whatever it may be in the covenants we have made, and then we don't keep them.

We invited Jose to be baptized, and he said yes.

We had a good week full of plenty of miracles. There were so many times when God showed His hand in the work and in Santa Isabel. The members here are awesome as well.

Yesterday, we decided that we were going to walk in a neighborhood, and then we were on our way when I really had to use the bathroom. So, we stopped at Wendy's, right by this other neighborhood where we had a lesson, and I had the thought: let's just go there. So, we decided to just go there. It was fun because when we parked, this lady pulled up to us and asked me if I was Elder Coleman Tew from Messenger. It was some lady I was messaging a few weeks ago that stopped answering but was somewhat interested in the gospel. She was so happy to meet us, and she actually lives in a neighborhood that we have knocked and seen God's help and hand in so many times. And it was another witness to me that God will put the people in your path if you just let Him, if you do the right things at the right time.

It always blows my mind how often we are in the right place at the right time if we do the right things. Just don't worry about it, and just listen to your ideas, and 99 percent of the time it was a prompting.

Last night, we dumped ice-cold water on Elder Bishopp.

We had a member (Hermano Rentas) who invited us over to a family home evening and invited one of our friends, and that was super spiritual and cool. He's probably my favorite member. He's just a great man and loves to help us, and he's good at it too.

Also, the guy named Ed who we talked about last time in my email about answering his prayer was baptized yesterday. It's so cool to be an answer to a prayer. God is good.