August 27, 2012
This week provided lots of challenges and lots of chances for me to grow. Although lots of great things happened, it was one of the hardest weeks of my mission. My companion and I are working hard to improve our relationship, and I am working really hard to be more humble. I know i´m not being humble enough because I can see the faults in my companion and i dont find many in myself. I know that we are together for a reason and that I have the chance to learn and grow a lot, I also hope that I can make a difference for Elder Silva. Our greatest struggle is our communication, we aren´t communicating effectively and so things that have been bugging him since the beginning of the transfer have been building up the whole time, and saturday it all exploded.
Its been really hard, but my capacity to love those that dont necesarily show love in return has grown, and i dont speak of only my companion.
we are still working diligently, and i hope to increase our unity so that we can have the spirit, because I can definitely feel a difference. We need the spirit so badly.
I have also learned that I have been relying too much on my own strength, and that i need to rely more on the Lord. that is somehting that i´ll be working on more this week. That and to just keep loving those around me and making them feel loved.
Its been really hard, but my capacity to love those that dont necesarily show love in return has grown, and i dont speak of only my companion.
we are still working diligently, and i hope to increase our unity so that we can have the spirit, because I can definitely feel a difference. We need the spirit so badly.
I have also learned that I have been relying too much on my own strength, and that i need to rely more on the Lord. that is somehting that i´ll be working on more this week. That and to just keep loving those around me and making them feel loved.
We have seen great things happen this week, Satan was working hard on Lucas so that he wouldnt get baptized this week but after he family just about threw him out and a bunch of other crud going on, he got there on saturday, but unfortunately the bishop didnt... so we couldnt get all the stuff we needed out of the bishop adn secretary´s office... it was kindof a mess but it all turned out ok. i´ll attach fotos of exito.
anyways, keep asking yourselves what would Jesus do? I know its really cliché but when you actually apply it, its really a great thing haha. Anyways, this week we have transfers, and we´ll see what happens, we also are going to have a conference with apostles that are coming but thats not til next week, but we also are going to the big temple celebration, like the dance thing we did for the draper temple at the conference center we are going to a big futbol stadium to have somthing similar. then we arent going to even have church the next sunday, we are going to have the temple dedication. should be awesome!
Love you all, keep praying for us
Elder Skousen
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