Hey, hey, hey! Well, if it isn't my friends and family who are on the other side of Mexico! How's everyone doing?
This week was a long and very interesting week. We, Elder Unruh and I, went to work in Gualan, which is an area I worked in for three months, and we helped both companionships there, with more focus on the newer one. It was somewhat frustrating, because they didn't know we were coming, and they didn't totally feel a need for our help. And it was understandable, because the conditions of the area were really not that bad. However, we did strive to help them teach better, and be more obedient, because we saw that there was more need for that than working with members.As a result, we were able to help out in really all aspects. But now, we just hope that what they learned will stick with them. This experience, in that way, was a bit different than the last week with the elders in Los Almendros.
But overall, I feel like I was able to do what I was sent to do. I feel satisfied. Maybe not totally joyful, but I do feel satisfied, and I am at peace.
And this is a particular blessing of the Gospel I was able to learn more about, just being at peace with oneself, feeling like you've done what you had to do. Don't we know that our Heavenly Father always watches over us? Let's remember that, and consider the things that we do each day. Our Heavenly Father has great love for us. We could not comprehend how loving He is, in fact. His love is greater than any other power in this universe. And He feels that love for us, as our Father.
Nevertheless, we couldn't feel it until we speak with Him, listen to Him, and do what He says, striving to be as He is. That's how we develop our relationship with Him. We can increase our knowledge of who He is through the Scriptures, as well as a knowledge of what He desires of us, and the way that He thinks of His children and blesses them. We can change the way that we think so that our thoughts are more loving towards others, towards God, and towards ourselves. And from there, our words can change, our actions can change; indeed, our habits, character, and our destiny can change all as a result.
Even so, we can understand the way the Savior thinks by reading His words, and we can become more like Him as we act upon that new way in which we think. What a wonderful process it is!
I bare my testimony of the divinity of the Savior and that He lives. I know that His Gospel is true, and that it is found in the Book of Mormon. I know that this is His Church. I say these things in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.
My brothers and sisters, have a wonderful, beautiful week, and a wonderful day. Do your best every day.
Love,
Elder Dredge
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