Hello, hello, hello, everyone! I hope you have had a good week this past week!
This one of my best weeks in my mission. I had the special honor of befriending and teaching a wonderful father and son, Mario y Marito. They are super cool, super spiritual, and super amable. Elder Cruz and I love them to death. We pass by them almost every day and spend at least 10 minutes talking about life and they are already curious about the Gospel so they ask about it too while we are there. The first time we really contacted, Elder Cruz was breakdancing with 41 year old Mario and I was beatboxing with little nine year old Marito. It was the time of a lifetime. We met with them later at the church building, and we shared pizza and the such. We try to be a little more structured in lessons now but they are super special to us. We gave them a new copy of the Bible and each a triplet (Book of Mormon, DyC y PoGP), with personal messages in the inner pages. Marito will definitely be a future missionary, upon hearing the invitation to church, being his charismatic self, he started to ask his friends to come too. And Mario is already such a splendid example for him. We are so honored to be the missionaries that will teach them.
Other than that, Elder Cruz and I have been really strengthening our companionship, and we have been strengthening our relationships with the members. We had a wonderful meeting with a family last night who so happened to be talking about the why singers in conservatory should sing in solfege rather than lalalalala (Mr. Fletcher, or any member of the Newberg choir, if you are reading this, you should know my ears were stinkin' perked). So of course, I invited them to sing a couple hymns with me... in parts. Holy cow. It was chilerisimo.
Overall I feel like I am improving in my abilities to listen to others and to teach them that they might understand. And I am really developing a love for all these people.
I just want to share that the essence of the Gospel is sharing what you have. Jesus Christ suffered for us that we might follow Him. When we need providence, we can depend on Him and find the strength that we need. He can develop in us the love that we have for others. We can share that love with others thenceforth. We can poco a poco develop his attributes. We can learn patience, longsuffering, temperance, knowledge, faith, hope, and the most important charity, through His grace made possible by the Atonement, and upon living the Gospel we can receive these things by the Holy Spirit. I testify that these things are true. In the name of Jesus Christ, amen.
I hope you all have a wonderful week!
Elder Braden K. Dredge
Guatemala Guatemala City East Mission
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