Week 31

 What's up guys, once again, another glorious p-day.... These things are starting to come super fast lol. 


This week was great!! We are officially in some of the hottest weather of the year and santa vaca its hot. 

 I found green power-aid and this stuff is good. Perfect for fetching walking around in a FIRE. Too bad the tienda lady wasn't as cool and didnt wanna talk to us :(

I went to 2 different areas this week on intercambios and one was with my absolute DAWG elder bird from the ccm. We had a lot of fun. And the other was with our zone leaders and all we did was play volleyball, soccer and help build a house lol.

We have someone in teaching who wants to get baptized. When we first met Ezekiel he wasn't sure if God existed but now he's reading the scriptures and praying every night. The problem is that every Sunday SOMETHING happens and he doesn't come to church. Last sunday he got stung by a 🦂 and was in the hospital. We did a fast with him to help him come to church and Homie still didn't pull up. Sad but we have to stop teaching him :(

Sunday we got to help 3 of our converts receive the sacerdocio. El sacerdocio is the power and authority of God, used by Jesus Christ and his apostles in the Bible. This power has been restored to the earth and is one of the pillars of the Church of Jesus Christ. Watching the 3 converts, Jesus, Vicente, and Benito receive this power was incredible. They almost immediately seemed to change as they felt the priesthood enter their body. 

I have a strong testimony of the priesthood. I've seen countless miracles from numbing the pain of the broken bone to making someone throw up pure peanut butter, I know that it is God's power that fills us when we are called to bless someone else. With this power we are able to make covenants and promises with God, something that was lost when the apostles died thousands of years ago. It is incredible that God trusts us enough to hold this power again today. Seeing entire families change after receiving this power has been one of the most sacred experiences of my life. A family centered on God, led by the power of God will never fall. One of the things we teach  to families is the power of a father's blessing, which is when the father of the family uses the priesthood to bless the member therein. These are life changing. I can't wait to see Vicente give his first blessing to one of his kids. I am eternally grateful for this power we have and I implore all of you that hold it to seek to be worthy to use it at all times, especially fathers. 

Love yall, 
Elder LaBass








Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Week 6 from Oaxaca

Image
  Bendiciones!!!!!  This week has easily been the hardest week yet. Saying goodbye to the CCM family was crazy difficult but I'm so happy that we are all in field now!  The last night at the CCM our flight was set for 2AM... who does that... it's a 1 hour flight... Why 2am? So no one slept at all, we all just stayed up talking and playing cards. Once we got to Oaxaca we all crashed in a hotel and slept for four hours.  Currently I am in Juchitán, Xochixlon 3 area! This place is crazy because all non-member adults are the laziest people ever, but the niños... they are so awesome!! We have about 7 people on date for next week right now (2 of which were placed by us) and they are all under 15... nice. These kids are awesome, we will be sitting on the street teaching on and then all of a sudden 7 more pull up out of nowhere and listen in. It's so awesome how strong these kids' spirits are. The way we find these kids is through a game called Trumpo. It's basically a top ...
Read more

Week 12

Image
   Bendiciones!!! One of our members tried to kill me. She fed us this amazing food that's basically everything delicious... in a massive fried chilly... I don't have a good spice tolerance. This was definitely a week of miracles! As we dedicated ourselves more and put effort where needed through prayer, we saw God step in and cover what we couldn't.  What I mean:  1. First story is about a kid named Angel. He's friends with our amazing member-nonmember, Alexis, that's how we found him. We had been teaching him for a while, but he wasn't really progressing, so we were close to dropping him. I kept having this feeling each time I thought about him to go and contact him. One day we planned on simply dropping the ball with him, as in he can choose whether to keep meeting with us with the intent of going to church or we were going to stop passing by.... He now has a baptismal date lol. What happened was he was so caught up on believing the same things as his family ...
Read more

WEEK 14

Image
Feliz Navidad a todos!! This week and a half have been a little crazy. Have to admit, we were not able to do too much because we had a lot of small-time consuming things to do with our members.  We had 2 more baptisms at the beginning of the week!!! I've spoken about Christian quite a bit, he is a miracle. On the day of his baptism (he was more excited for this than Christmas) we could NOT find him. His mom was not responding and like an hour before his baptism we just decided to run up there and check, HE WASN'T THERE! After we panicked and prayed his mom finally called us... and guess where he was. Bro's grandpa straight up drove him to the church without telling us, so while we were about to start panicking, he was just chilling at the empty church. In the end it was great because we got to teach his grandpa about baptism. Angel's story (our other miracle) has been talked about too but just to recap... his family is heavily based in the catholic traditions, which ang...
Read more