And another great week comes to an end but here
comes another one! Nothing really special happened, we had a cool multi
zone conference and President Rowley taught a lot about the missionaries
in the Book of Mormon, like Abinadi, Amulek, Alma, the sons of Mosiah,
and Moroni. It was reall motivating. I can feel the Lord helping me a
ton, especially with spanish, this week I got a ton better out of
nowhere it seems. I remember hearing somewhere, that if you read the
book of Mormon in another language, you will be fluent by the time you
finish (i was reminded of this saying in one of tommy's emails) and so I
have been stepping up my reading in the Book of Mormon, reading about
5-7 pages per day my spanish is rapidly improving, especially when I
read it out loud or in a whisper even. I have laearned that trials are
really just temporary, short periods of time. Think about moral life and
how small it is compared to the Eternal Life that we will have
afterward. Mortal life on earth really is practically nothing. Then
think of the trial you just got over or are currently going through.
This time period is very small usually, barely a sliver of time compared
to an average mortal life. So when all is said and done, your trial is
actually nothing at all. It's just a tiny sliver of another very, very,
very small sliver. This thought has helped because relally even if it
takes me 5 or 6 months to learn spanish really well, that time is
absolutely nothing compared to a lifetime and even less significant
whpared to the Eternal Life that follows this life.
Oh and a missionary at the zone conferenec accidentally sprayed
sauce on me (my suit pants) when we were eating lunch. So its stained
now but hopefully the lady who does our laundry can get it out haha.
C_________,
our recent convert has been doing great. He was the ideal investigator
and now is the ideal member, he is sharing the gospel with his neighbors
and friends, asking us for more pamphlets so he can give them to
friends. We are now teaching one of his neighbors. He is working hard
and studying the scriptures. Elder Roman and I think that he will one
day be a leader of some sort in the church, like the Elder's quorom
president or something like that.
That is my storyfor this week, I hope you all had a great week and
have another great one comign! remember, any trials you have are only
for a very tiny particle of time, and then you'll be stronger than
before!,
We visited a menos activo this week and her daughters were there (both
have families, one in Spain and the other in tumbes, the northernmost
city of this misison. They talked about all the things that the summer
brings to Piura. Here are some things they talked about: giant, jumping
tarantulas (doesnt that sound fun), snakes, big bug/insects that bite
and cause a lot of itching (mainly they come out at night and bite when
you're sleeping), rain that sometimes floods the street and people even
go out to SWIM in it. They saw big tarantulas that drowned just floating
down the streets and other nasty stuff. Oh and there are already a lot
of bats but im not worried about those, they have never bothered anyone.
But our apartment is getting more and more spiders, and theyre getting
bigger, mainly the daddy long leg type ones though.
Oh and i got letters from aunt jenny (smith) and Maddy, and a dear elder
from uncle Travis, and mike, you can tell them and thank them for me if
you can.
Love,
Elder Evans, Paul
I only sent one picture home, its a huge lizard or iguana thing, idk.
but its on the wall and you will see the taail more than anything. I
thought of matt when I saw it, its across the street from my apartment.
my camera is zoomed in a ton. Ill send another picture of it in just a
sec.
