HELLLO Family and friends 17 October, 2012
Sorry that I’m writing really late but today we had to
move out of our house and into another and it took way way to long. But we are
going to be in a new apartment! So that’ll be good for all of the missionaries
that come in after me!
It’s funny to think how well the lord knows each and every
one of us. He knows what is going on in our lives and helps us when we need it.
I know that for a fact now. Um this week, I’ll be honest I was feeling really
down, for what.. I don’t really know, but I just wasn’t myself.
I got to talk to a missionary that is just starting his
mission, he’s from Sandy, Utah and he is going through a rough time with his
comp and his trainer, he’s struggling with Spanish and doesn’t really know what
to do. So, he came and talked to me and started to explain to me his feelings. When I realized that he trusted me enough to
talk to me, I felt a little bit of weight lifted off of my shoulders - to know
that not all are going through problems and that there is always help. In the
mission I see so so many people that I know can’t be happy[y and that I know
are going through things that I could never imagine; divorced parents, no
parents, deaths in the family, no job, no money, etc., there are a ton of
things that I will never, probably, go through and it helps me to know that no matter
who you are, God knows you and has a purpose for what is going on in your life.
I’ve been able to realize how much I have been given, because IT’S SO SO MUCH. I’ve
been blessed and so has my family. and I hope every single day that we can give
everything back to the Lord, all of us.
Um, we taught a man on Monday and we got to teach him
about the restoration and after we got done explaining it he told us that 14
years ago he asked a bunch of questions to a pastor. He got answers but they were not satisfying
to him. He asked us the same questions
and with our answers the Spirit bore testimony to him of their truthfulness,
and in that moment almost all were answered. He just so happen to be in his
house because of an injury, he couldn’t work and because of that he has been
able to find the truth that he had waited so long for and have his questions
answered, He has a wife and 3 kids !!! a family finally ! ha . President
Douglas and his wife are really focusing the mission on the family, which is
the way it should be. Before, the focus was on teaching and we were just
teaching a lot, without reason and to anyone. President Douglas figured that
out and changed everything really quick. Now we don’t teach as much but we look
for members that can help each of our investigators and we teach lesson that
are worth something and that will help the family come together. He put an
"almost rule" where we have to have all of the family in the lesson
with us and if they’re not there we can’t teach ha! To be honest, it really
works.
On Sunday a member called us and told us to go to his
house, so as obedient missionaries we did. haha When we got there he pulled me
outside to talk to me while my comp was inside to tell me that my comps aunt
had died and that he had to find the words to tell him. So we walked back in
the house and talked a little and then the member told him. Elder Feliz just broke down. He didn’t know
what to do or say. I kind of know how he feels, but I didn’t react like he did when I found
out that both of my grandparents passed away last summer. It helped him knowing that I have also had
family members that have passed on while I was serving the mission. I know now why I am with Elder Feliz. ... wow
GOD KNOWS EVERYTHING ha Thank goodness for tender mercies!.
Look I love all of you and I hope that all are going to
church, reading their scriptures and saying their prayers to help build your
faith !!:) .... We teach that a lot in the mission! But, its true so do it!!! Please.
MUCH love and hope for things to come
truly yours :S
ELDER GRINER
mision santiago RD
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