Hey it's Elder Winegar, writing another weekly email about my weekly activities, isn't that crazy.
Good news bad news time: good news is that we had transfers this week and I'm staying here in Durango! Bad news is that my comp is leaving Durango. We were good buddies, but all good because now I'm with Elder Medrano who has a cool speaker.
Other cool highlights was that I taught an English class, went to a stake activity that showed Lehi's dream, and found an awesome family that we've started teaching!
Oh ya we also had a sweet baptism this week! Rafael was stoked and took the leap of faith to get baptized. The bag we put on his hurt arm worked like a charm, I just forgot to tell him to plug his nose so he was dying in the bathroom for like 5 minutues after. He's fine now, he was smiling tons after.
The change I saw in Rafael was so cool. I have watched him change from a pesimistic, sad old man into a happy old man that finds joy in reading the book of mormon. In one of our visits last week, his first comment was about the 3 nephites and how they would live forever and how that just made sense to him. We were blown away at this 75 year old that is reading, comprehending, and enjoying the scriptures.
During study this week, I was reading the story of Nephi and his brothers getting the bronze plates. After they got them and returned to their family, they celebrated and found joy in reading the scriptures. Eventually though, the night ended and they packed up camp. 1 Nephi 5:22 then says-
22 Wherefore, it was wisdom in the Lord that we should carry them with us (the bronze plates), as we journeyed in the wilderness towards the land of promise
Nephi and his family went on to struggle in the wilderness, but what I like is that they never forgot that they had the scriptures. It was easy for them to read the bronze plates when they were all together as a family having a good time, but I'm sure it got harder as more and more trials came up. But throughout their hardships, they continued to turn to the scriptures for help.
When times get hard, please don't turn away from the gospel. Like Nephi, we have the scriptures that we can turn to. If we read the scriptures diligently, we will receive the help and answers we need to make it towards our own "land of promise."
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-Elder Winegar
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