On monday we made (thanks to the elders from mexico in the zone) the best tacos i´ve ever eaten. Suuuuper good. wow. I get hungry just typing about them.
Then on Tuesday, we had district meeting in the morning and a training meeting with president that afternoon in the stake center of the other zone here in sanjuan. It was the last time he´ll see most of the missionaries here and it was absolutely amazing! He talked about how we often as missionaries think "I should be like this" or "I´m failing because i´m not like that", and how even though God has comanded us to be perfect he knows we aren´t going to be right away and how that thought of "i should" would be better as "i would like to", because the Lord grants us according to our desires. He did a question answer moment, and someone asked "after leaving an area or finishing the mission, how can i know i´ve i really did my best and gave it my all?" and President said that the better question to ask is whether the Lord is pleased with our work, and to know that we can count all of the blessings that we recieved in that time of our service. He said that with every calling he´s every had, he´s been able to look back and say "i could have done that better" or rather there hasn´t been one calling he´s had that he´s done perfectly. He talked about how we are eternal beings intelligences then spirits and now mortal bodies and later immortal bodies. He talked about so many other amazing things but one scripture that he shared was from Romans and talks about how our faith grows as we hear the word of God or that our faith grows with our knowledge. Although it´s quite possible to have tons of knowledge but no faith. But wow, I can really feel my faith growing everytime i hear President Avila speak! It was amazing. Then, Hermana Avila spoke as well about our eternal potencial, and had us each go look in the mirror in the bathroom and then return without talking. Then she showed us the ugly duckling mormon message from President Uchtdor which was amazing.
So this week has been really good. One highlight was doing exchanges here with a brand new elder, elder carroll who´s working really hard on his spanish. We talked with tons of people and he liked that a lot, he was surprised when people said we could come by at another time. We taught Roberto and his daughter on saturday morning the plan of salv. At the end, we invited her to say the prayer and she didn´t want to but we promised her she would feel good inside if she did. She prayed and then afterwards she told us she really did feel good.
Nobody came to church which was hard. We were fairly sure Rodrigo was going to come but when we went by and clapped, nobody came out. And nobody picked up the phone...
So last night we got transfer calls. Elder Connolly is leaving the zone, and his comp, elder Barton will be the new secretary. So they´ll be washing that area as well. There will be 3 more elders training in the zone which I like a lot.
I love this work and I´m grateful for the Spirit that I strive to have each day and for His grace which is suficient.
Love,
Elder Fullmer
I love you all!!!
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