Hey folks! I don't have too much time to write because I was sending so many pictures to my family of the many different things I am seeing in my new area. I will say more the next week, but I just have to say, I am the happiest person where I am right now. I love my companion, I love Gualan, I love the zone in which I work, I love the people, and I love the Gospel. Here are photos from my goodbyes from Acatan, my ride between Acatan and Gualan, some views here in beautiful Gualan, and a trip we took as a zone to Panaluya today. It is marvelous here. It is like Oregon and Hawaii combined, and is indeed just like what I imagined Guatemala would be like when I received my mission call, and it all just makes me smile. I am sweating a lot but it feels great, haha.
I hope every one of you has a lovely week. Continue to count your blessings, and strive to maintain a positive attitude, in the good and the bad.
Your friend among the Gualantecos,
Elder Dredge
Elder Braden K. Dredge
Guatemala Guatemala City East Mission
Note from Mom: New companion information: Elder Cifuentes is from Huehuetenango, Guatemala. He was originally called to the Nicaragua mission and was part of the emergency transfers that occurred recently.
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| Panaluya .. Zacapa Zone |
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| Elder Cifuentes and Elder Dredge |
Belief is the reason we go on a mission. It is the motive for preaching about Christ and sharing/Proclaiming his love. Faith is understanding we are children of God and our Heavenly Father. May this definition of faith bless you in your life. Faith is defined again and because faith has an inherent joy it gives us a solid foundation that we finally have the peace we have been searching for.
ReplyDelete"Many believer's feed themselves on what God hasn't done. When I dwell on what hasn't happened, I create the atmosphere for the spirit of offense to arise and to thrive. When I dwell on what hasn't happened, I legitimize unbelief. I live with a sense of justification, for not believing God.
Faith in the purest sense is the ceasing of resistance. even when there's no physical evidence, when the other evidence is present. Not feeding ourselves on what God hasn't done Faith in it's purest form is the absence of resistance
Heaven is a place where everyone is celebrated, some are more honored but everyone is celebrated. All men and all women shall be judged on the light which they have received. Heaven is a permissible culture. God's nature is eternally permissible. These statements protect us from credit.
Faith in the purest sense is the ceasing of resistance, even when there's no physical evidence, when the other evidence is present. Not feeding ourselves on what God hasn't done. Faith in it's purest form is the absence of resistance. Faith doesn't deny a problems existence, it denies it's influence. He or she was someone whom aridity and desolation never disturbed for he or she had a deeply rooted, and a vigorous faith.
Now we can act as we have always dreamed. Now we can act as we have always been. Now we can step into the light and gather the sunlight instead of blocking out our possibilities. Instead of blocking out our joy. Variety will bloom in/under the sun. We can show off our best, we can enjoy other people's gifts. We can blossom where we stand upon the joy that faith provides us. Upon the joy that faith inherently has, which blossoms the entire field of flowers"
.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDYaxabUfkA - The Definition of Faith