To explain the title...Elder Kemp showed me a BYU speech that was from 1970something that talked how we as human beings can be motivated and when I was reading it, the talk that made me want to run through the cement wall...
Anyways, this week was kind of a boring, weirdly slow, but also quick. This week we had our consejo de lideres, or our leadership council which was Wednesday. We got up at 6am at the bus station at 7, and to Guayaquil by 10. We were in Guayaquil until 4:30 or so and we were back here in Santa Elena at around 8pm so it made for a pretty long day and the worst thing was that we didn't even get out. That day was very very long and was a hard day to get through to say the least.
Anyways . . . working there wasn't too many miracles this week so I will just focus on our friend Enma. Enma has been in teaching for about 2 years and the Elders have taught her and always had to drop her or just let other Elders teach her in the future. Well with Elder Villanueva or my last comp she had a surgery and wasn't able to come to church and just couldn't really progress towards baptism so we decided that we would try and visit her once a week and just help her feel the spirit. Well we never really visited her until this Sunday with Elder Kemp. She has always had a hard time understanding our life on Earth and why we pass so many afflictions in our life but we were able to understand why and how everything. . . EVERYTHING we go through and will experiment in our life is according to God's will. Anyways it got to the point where we needed to share scripture and the thought came into my mind that we could share 2nd Nephi 9:20-23. This mentions the Savior's Atonement but also how we need to repent, be baptized and have Faith in His name. We both felt that our purpose is to help people make promises with The Lord through baptism and we are here to prepare them. Then she kind of blurted out - asking if she was ready and we felt like putting a fecha for the 31st of May. She accepted but still had some doubts but I have faith that she will take the right way and follow her Savior Jesus Christ in baptism!
Aparte de eso ha sido una semana cansada pero rápida... ¡Espero que tengan una buena semana!
Los extrano mucho
Elder Roper
This is the motivation talk that I mentioned at the beginning of the email. Give it a read or listen y saldran edificado para tumbar una pared!
