Praying for opportunities to serve!
Another week down! I can't believe how fast this week has gone by. This has been the fastest week by far. We do the same thing every day here in the ccm, but ill talk about some of the things that have stood out this week. They finally made me get a haircut this week, I went sooo long without cutting it haha. I had the longest hair in the ccm by far. My hair looks so bad now, it looks like a 5-year-old cut it. The lady who cut it even said it wasn't her best haircut. Oh well haha. Doesn't even matter.
First off, just cause you're in the walls of the ccm doesn't mean you can still preach the gospel baby!! We have been talking with Tony and Jose a lot lately (the construction workers we gave the book of Mormons to) Tony is already in Mosiah, and Jose( the man the hermanas taught) reads the book of Mormon with his family every day. It's kind of hard to talk to them cause their Spanish is so fast, but we can hold our own haha. We taught them the first vision on the street the other day and my comp recited the first vision, after that I asked them if they wanted to learn more, and they did. I got their phone numbers and asked if they wanted missionaries outside the ccm to come to their houses, they said yes! We are going to refer them to some missionaries that actually have time to teach them at their houses. We see them every day and they are always so happy to see us. It brightens my day every time I see them!
My Spanish is getting better every day! We took a test the other day, and it went pretty good. It would ask us a question like Juan wants to know about eternal families, teach him the plan of salvation in three minutes. It was kind of hard to do it in Spanish but it's getting easier every day. We can teach our lessons without notes now, the gift of tongues is so real, and the holy ghost truly does guide us in all of our lessons. We had trc this week, we teach people from outside the mtc, they are already members, but it is great to teach people who aren't acting, and who have real problems.
We had the opportunity to go to the temple last week! The Mexico City temple is gorgeous. It was also cool to go through the temple in Spanish. They gave us headsets, so us gringos could actually understand what was going on. I love the temple so much, makes me miss having like 8 temples within 20 minutes of my house.
I have had some really amazing experiences with prayer this past week. Last week in one of our devotionals, we had an invitation to pray for opportunities to serve. Every morning I have been praying for the opportunity to serve someone, and my prayers have been answered every day. The first time I asked, that night, someone in my district asked if I would give them a priesthood blessing. He was really having a hard time. He didn't tell me much of why, so I didn't really know what I was going to say in the blessing. As soon as I laid my hands on his head, i knew exactly what i needed to say. The words flowed out of my mouth, and it was like it wasn't even me speaking, and the spirit was so strong. After I was done with the blessing, someone showed me a note card he had, of all the things he was struggling with, and blessings he wanted from the blessing. Each of the things he had written down, I said in my blessing, and he never told me any of those things. I can testify that the holy ghost truly does work through us, and the Lord will tell us exactly what we need to say, in the exact moment we need to say it. I have had soooo many opportunities for service this week, and it makes me so happy to help others. I encourage you all, to pray for opportunities to serve others, then keep your eyes opened for opportunities throughout the day. Jesus Christ lived a life of service, and if we want to be more like him, we need to try our best to selflessly serve others. I can promise you that it will bring you so much joy. I'm sure i missed half the stuff that happened this week, esta bien. I love you all! have a good week!!
Elder Atkin
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