December 9, 2013
hey everyone soo im here in Houston Texas as im Sure you know!!!
this
week has been great!!! I love it here!! im really sad that I had to
leave El Salvador and all the people that I grew to love!!! I feel like I
left family down there with how our relationships were with some of the
members!!! It was hard to leave!! I miss the simplicity of everything!!
I feel out of place here having so much!!! having things like hot water
carpet a clean house no bugs. down there we had so little and yet I was
never more happy!! well maybe a few times can match it but yeah. haha
here I drive around in a truck I have hot water and carpet! everything
is clean and safe!!
I have some amazing experiences tho!! so basically everyone I talk
to here is from El Salvador!!! we found this family this week who is
from there and I talked to them a lot about that and then we taught them
the gospel of jesus Christ!! cool thing is that after the lesson my
comp elder case told me that it was so weird because he has never gotten
into their house before!!!! because the mom is super catholic and
didn't want anything to do with us!!! well they came to church
yesterday... ALL of them and after church we asked them what they
thought and they LOVED IT and they all told us that they were going to
be coming everyweek from now on!!! Hna Ortega (the super catholic one)
didn't want to leave!! she spend 30 minutes after church just talking to
people!! haha ahhhhhh sooooo awesome!!! first family we have come to
church here is Salvadorian!! =) the lord truly has a purpose!!! and
truly is guiding us!!!
I know that im here for a purpose. I learned some
great things in ES and im really sad that I had to leave but there are
things I could not have learned there that I needed to learn
obviously!!! I feel sooo happy still!!! i love WORKING in the mission!!!
its not so much where you serve but how you serve in the place your
serving!!!
i want to share one last experience that was really
scary!! when i was in the hospital i almost died (im saying this because
im fine now). i had a platelet level of 43,000 and a white blood cell
count that was super low like 2% i think, i was thinking about how if i
died i would miss doing all these things and i was really worried about
that and kind angry!! i was thinking about it and i remembered about
what we had been teaching everyone, about how this life is the time to
prepare to meet god! and i was thinking about that and about how
everyone says that if you die in the mission you go to the celestial
kingdom. and i thought. if i died... wouldn't that be completing my
purpose? this life is such a small part of the big picture and sometimes
we get soo caught up in the things that don't matter. i realized that
all of the things that i was worried about really didn't matter because
that's not why im here!!! we all need to have an eternal perspective and
realize that "things" in this life really don't matter!! the only thing
we are going to take with us is our families and our knowledge!!!
that's it!! so while i was laying there in the hospital i decided to
accept god will and if it was his will that i continued my mission in
another world then i would accept it!! i know that the lord has a plan
for me!!! i know that im here for a purpose and that all i have in
really a blessing from the lord!! he knows i don't need anything but my
family... now i know that too!! im soo grateful for my family and for
the love they have always showed me!!! im soo grateful im still working
in THIS world!!
i love you all and thank you for all your prayers!!!
love you soo much!!!
-Elder Dennis
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