Starting our trip to Hue Hue!
Una semana bendecida y lleno de gozo! This week was a bit crazy, with only 2 days so far to be able to work in our area! We took a trip about 2.5 hours away from Xela to Huehue to finish up multizone conferences.
chapel in Tierra Blanca
While we were there, we stayed with Elder Hicken and Elder Romero,
and in the night we were able to go out visiting with them! It was a week full of much learning, and very tiring, but that is part of what makes it great. There is nothing better than working like crazy and arriving home very tired, so tired that the second your head hits the pillow you are out haha! One of the many things I have learned in the mission is to love so much work! It is the most satisfying.
Mejor Milagro:
While in Huehue, I was able to leave with Elder Hicken to do visits. One of those visits included a man that they had met a few days earlier who was blind. He had not been blind his whole life, but just as of 5 months ago because of an accident that he was in. This has been a great trial for him, and he has felt very alone and lost. He explained that he had felt like he had seperated from God in his tribulation. While we talked, I remembered a scripture that I had read just that morning before starting the multizone conference. It is in D&C 58:
2 For verily I say unto you, blessed is he that keepeth my commandments, whether in life or in death; and he that is faithful in tribulation, the reward of the same is greater in the kingdom of heaven.
3 Ye cannot behold with your natural eyes, for the present time, the design of your God concerning those things which shall come hereafter, and the glory which shall follow after much tribulation.
4 For after much tribulation come the blessings. Wherefore the day cometh that ye shall be crowned with much glory; the hour is not yet, but is nigh at hand.
5 Remember this, which I tell you before, that you may lay it to heart, and receive that which is to follow.
As I shared it, we could see that it touched him, and his eyes began to water. He opened to us that he had great desires to return to church, but he simply did not know how and did not feel worthy to do so. So, we invited him to come this Sunday, and with a bit of a push he accepted. I feel so grateful to see that I was simply an instrument in the hands of the Lord, to be lead to give comfort to one of his beloved children in the right time and at the right place.
Testimony time:
The title of the email comes from 1 Nefi 20:10, it says:
10 For, behold, I have refined thee, I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.
A couple of weeks ago as I was meditating, this scripture came into my mind but I simply could not remember where it was! But, this week I found it, and I love the simple principle that it teaches. All of us encounter trials and tests in our lives. It is normals, and in the scriptures it even teaches us that this life is a time of preparation and trial. Many times, when there trials come, if we dont understand the eternal purposes of the tests, they can make us bitter towards God or towards other people. Here the Lord teaches us that the reason behind him allowing us to pass these afflictions is for our own better and and our progress. It is an opportunity for us to purify ourselves and to refine ourselves. It reminds of how Samurai Swords and made, by much heat and much pounding and folding, to make it the strongest. As well as with precious minerals, though a high heat process the imperfections are able to come out. As we see our problems in this manner, we can come to grow from these troubles, and we can receive divine strength to conquer these times of dificulty. I testify of a loving Heavenly Father, who knows each of us personally and regonizes our trials personally. In the times when we feel like it is the hardest, we can see truly as God sends his angels to lift us and carry us through this trial. I testify of the atonement of our saviour Jesus Christ, and that he truly did suffer every sickness and trial, and we can look towards him for strenght and his perfecting power. Of this I testify in the sacred name of Jesus Christ, Amen.
Elder Silva in front of the school!
A sweet family in Xela asked us for service, we said yes, and it was to kill chickens to eat! Great Experience.
Elder Richardson
Misión Guatemala Quetzaltenango
josephr@myldsmail.net
Mejor Milagro:
While in Huehue, I was able to leave with Elder Hicken to do visits. One of those visits included a man that they had met a few days earlier who was blind. He had not been blind his whole life, but just as of 5 months ago because of an accident that he was in. This has been a great trial for him, and he has felt very alone and lost. He explained that he had felt like he had seperated from God in his tribulation. While we talked, I remembered a scripture that I had read just that morning before starting the multizone conference. It is in D&C 58:
2 For verily I say unto you, blessed is he that keepeth my commandments, whether in life or in death; and he that is faithful in tribulation, the reward of the same is greater in the kingdom of heaven.
3 Ye cannot behold with your natural eyes, for the present time, the design of your God concerning those things which shall come hereafter, and the glory which shall follow after much tribulation.
4 For after much tribulation come the blessings. Wherefore the day cometh that ye shall be crowned with much glory; the hour is not yet, but is nigh at hand.
5 Remember this, which I tell you before, that you may lay it to heart, and receive that which is to follow.
As I shared it, we could see that it touched him, and his eyes began to water. He opened to us that he had great desires to return to church, but he simply did not know how and did not feel worthy to do so. So, we invited him to come this Sunday, and with a bit of a push he accepted. I feel so grateful to see that I was simply an instrument in the hands of the Lord, to be lead to give comfort to one of his beloved children in the right time and at the right place.
Testimony time:
The title of the email comes from 1 Nefi 20:10, it says:
10 For, behold, I have refined thee, I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.
A couple of weeks ago as I was meditating, this scripture came into my mind but I simply could not remember where it was! But, this week I found it, and I love the simple principle that it teaches. All of us encounter trials and tests in our lives. It is normals, and in the scriptures it even teaches us that this life is a time of preparation and trial. Many times, when there trials come, if we dont understand the eternal purposes of the tests, they can make us bitter towards God or towards other people. Here the Lord teaches us that the reason behind him allowing us to pass these afflictions is for our own better and and our progress. It is an opportunity for us to purify ourselves and to refine ourselves. It reminds of how Samurai Swords and made, by much heat and much pounding and folding, to make it the strongest. As well as with precious minerals, though a high heat process the imperfections are able to come out. As we see our problems in this manner, we can come to grow from these troubles, and we can receive divine strength to conquer these times of dificulty. I testify of a loving Heavenly Father, who knows each of us personally and regonizes our trials personally. In the times when we feel like it is the hardest, we can see truly as God sends his angels to lift us and carry us through this trial. I testify of the atonement of our saviour Jesus Christ, and that he truly did suffer every sickness and trial, and we can look towards him for strenght and his perfecting power. Of this I testify in the sacred name of Jesus Christ, Amen.
A school in Hue Hue with President Monsons name on it! So cool!!!
Elder Silva in front of the school! 
Elder Richardson
Misión Guatemala Quetzaltenango
josephr@myldsmail.net
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