Parigot de Souza Week 4

So this week wasn´t really that interesting. The only thing is that I hit my 1year 1month mark, and so we ate pizza. At the start of the week it was hard. We were having problems with finding people to teach. By Thursday we had found 1 ``Novo´´ which is a new investigator. We really focused, and asked help from the Lord, and then we focused a little on finding people, and by the end of the week (Sunday for missionaries) we had met our goal of 10 novos for the week. I know that that really was a blessing from the Lord blessing our efforts.

I have been studying the war chapters in the Book of Mormon, and sometimes it is harder to learn something. You really have to think, and search to apply it in you life, or at least for me. Anyway I have learned about how when we trust in the Lord, and when we have a good righteous reason for what we are doing, the Lord will bless us with victory. The only catch is that we won´t come out unscathed. It won´t be easy. It will be hard, but if we trust, the Lord will give us a way to win. I have really felt this, this week. I also learned a little bit more about humility. One thing is that of all of Christ´s attributes, this is the most important. The scriptures tell us that the only way that we can conserve a remission of our sins is if we are humble. So it doesn´t matter if you have faith the size of a mountain, or charity for all men, or if you are virtuous, or anything else if you are not humble, because if you are not humble, you cannot be forgiven, and if you cannot be forgiven you cannot return to our Father in Heaven, and what does the rest matter if you can´t make it home to Heavenly Father. I know that this is important, and that it is important to recognize the hand of the Lord in all things.

Thank you all for the support, and have a great week.

-- Élder Pettingill

Picture from Zone Conference