-Monday: P-day We had a barbecue with the stake president and all the missionaries in the stake, and we played a Book of Mormon questions game a learned a little.
-Tuesday: we worked, and we met with Waldemar, who is dating a member of the church. He has already visited the church a lot of times, and he likes it, and he likes the impact that it is having in his life. We are talking with him now, and he is very interested in our message. He is making progress and we hope that he will be baptized soon.
-Wednesday: we had our zone conference. We talked about contacts, and how we need to use our talents to help people come unto Christ. Also we talked about the conference that President Nelson had with the youth, and our part as missionaries. We talked about how everyone one of us needs to take a part in the gathering of Israel. I learned a lot here, and Elder Verdugo and I are trying to apply this in our work. Also we met with Túlio, who is a friend/coworker with a member. He is also friends with the missionaries, and cuts our hair for free 😃 (and very well too) Anyway we started teaching him, and he is very open, and very interested in the message that we shared, and very open to the commitments that we left with him.
-Thursday: Another day of work, but we didn´t get a lot done because of some different factors.
-Friday: We had District Leader meeting. I learned a lot what it means to be a district leader. About helping the missionaries, and helping lift them up.
Saturday: We worked, helped people met with some less actives.
Sunday:We went to church. The sacrament meeting was great. The Principle os the Gospel class was very good about the Book of Mormon. And we went to the ward council meeting, did a few visits.
Anyway the work is cool and I am learning a lot. One thing that I learned this week is about charity. Charity is the pure love of Christ, and the love that Christ has for all of us. Everyone needs charity, especially leaders. Charity helps us have patience, be humble, and serve others, but one aspect of charity that I learned this week is about the work. An essential part of charity is sharing the gospel. You cannot have charity if you don´t share the gospel. The best way that you can love someone, or serve them is help them receive the fullness of the gospel in their lives, and so if you really have charity you will want to share the gospel with everyone. That doesn´t mean that everyone has to go preach on a street corner, but it means that everyone has to share the gospel in simple ways, and help gather Israel. Elder Oaks has a talk that is very good-Sharing the Restored Gospel, and describes perfectly the ways that we can share the gospel. I would like to invite everyone reading this to read this talk, and pray about ways that you can help gather Israel. (Read Elder Oaks' talk here.)
Thank you all for that support, and have a good week
-- Élder Pettingill
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