But I have been trying to be like my mission president this week.
This week has been very interesting. Elder Sanchez and I had our last week together. Plot twist: he left Valles and not me. He's now serving as a zone leader in a different area. I've finished my training in the mission field, and am now a regular missionary here in the field. I've also gotten to the point that Spanish is coming more naturally to me to speak than English. This will probably start to reflect in my letters after a little while. So if my grammar sounds a little funny, please understand that I'm thinking half of the time in Spanish.
Last week, I invited everyone to think about how the priesthood has blessed their lives or how they could magnify their priesthood callings. To share my personal experience with the challenge, I've been thinking about the significance of priesthood blessings. As priesthood holders, we have the power to call down blessings from heaven to satisfy the needs of other people. As a missionary, and a holder of this priesthood, I have the ability to bless the lives of everyone that I see and teach. This power is one of the examples of how the Lord has put his trust in me to help the people of Obregon.
As for why I've been trying to be like my mission president, we had a special lecture this week where we learned more about how to teach with the Spirit. In this lecture, I learned something very interesting that he said. He was talking about how the Lord had commanded him to give the mission this special lecture and how because the Lord had commanded him to give that lecture, It would be irrational to believe that his spirit wouldn't be with him during it.
As a missionary, I can apply this same level of confidence in my lessons. I have been called of the Lord to preach the Gospel here in Spanish. As his representative, it is irrational for me to believe that he wouldn't give me his spirit as a guide to help me in my lessons as well as to learn Spanish. This has led me to reflect upon one of my earlier emails about how true freedom and happiness comes when we submit ourselves completely to the will of the Lord. He is the Good Shepard. He knows what is best for us. And we can understand his will through prayer and following the promptings of the Holy Ghost.
Following the pattern I set last week, this week also has a challenge. I want to invite everyone to pay more attention to the promptings of the spirit this week. For those that are unfamiliar with his voice, he communicates with us through our thoughts and through our feelings. At times he has been described as a warmth and other times as a still small voice. He always communicates with us though in a way that we can understand and recognize that his message is from God.
Also, because I like getting emails and what to hear everyone's experiences of how following the spirit has blessed your lives this week.
That's all for now
Elder Gooden
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