Hello Family and Friends! Kumusta kayo!
This week was full of excitement and tears. But don’t worry the tears werent mine! Hahaha.
There were more service projects this week! It was a blast, every single year during the summer time when there is no school. The teachers are the ones to clean the school for the next coming year. So the whole community helps out by signing up for one day to clean the school! Every day there are random members of the community who come, as well as Religious Groups, Charities, Public Administrations and many more! The Sevilla Ward has signed up every year on Tuesday to clean the Elementary School and we were lucky enough to be in the Sevilla Ward for this years cleaning! We painted the students chairs and raked leaves around the school! Raking the leaves made me somewhat miss home… And at the same time it made me not miss home as well! Haha but it was fun. Antonio was with us the whole time which made the hours seem like minutes. There is never a dull time with Antonio!
We also had a service project again this week, but this one was just us 4 Elders at the Church! The Elders had an investigator who was getting baptized, so we went to the Church and cleaned, mopped, broomed and everything else to make the baptisml font and room ready for the service! Being able to have cleaning projects or service projects will always be one of my favorite things to do here in the mission. It gives us time to meet the community and to come closer with those we are serving and also the fellow people giving service. I love being in the Sevilla Ward, I have been here for over 4 months now I think, and I will be staying here for at least another 6 weeks! We found out this week that I will not be transferring areas! The bad news, Elder Tavita is transferring! ☹
It was real, It was fun, It was real fun with Elder Tavita being my companion for the last couple months. We have grown so close to one another and I truly feel like Elder Tavita is my brother. Elder Tavita is being transferred just down the road to a different area here in San Fernando so I will still be seeing him often! My new companion is Elder Diaz! That’s right! A Filipino Companion! My first in almost 1 full year!! I can not wait to just ask ask ask questions about Tagalog to Elder Diaz in order to learn and become more fluent. Elder Diaz is an awesome missionary. He is so hard working and diligent. I am excited for this upcoming transfer! We pick up Elder Diaz from the bus station tomorrow so for now I will clean the house and make it all pretty for him haha.
I was reading in the Book of Mormon this week about Abinadi. If you’ve never heard who Abinadi is, then don’t worry about pronouncing his name correctly.. It gets everyone on the first try! Haha. Abinadi was a righteous man who knew the commandments of God, and didn’t want his fellow beings to be caught up in worldy lusts. But when the unrighteous King found out that he was teaching the Word of God to the people, he threw Abinadi in Prison and wanting to kill him. When Abinadi was brought forth to the King, he told them of the sins they were committing, and the hypocrisy that filled their mouths.
Please read Mosiah 13-17. It will take only about 20 minutes but you will see and feel the power of Abinadis word to a king. Abinadi was a great follower of Christ, he had strong faith and would do anything for our Savior who had not even come to earth yet to establish His Gospel and His Church.
I hope that I will be able to have that power as I speak to the people here in Sevilla. They might not be kings here on earth, but they were born to be Kings and Queens in Heaven after this life. We all have that potential and we all have the ability here on earth to be worthy of that blessing after this life. I love you all! Have a great week!!
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Elder Pitt
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