Hey family!!!
How`s everything going? I`m sorry that I have to write today and not
tomorrow. It`s because tomorrow we are going to have a zone conference from 9 in
the morning until 3 so we have our preparation day today. I`m glad to here that
Lucy Mae is doing well and I pray for her every day. I am so excited to see
pictures when she is born.
I had a solid week here in Xalpa. The bad part is I am having a hard time
remembering it. I normally bring my journal with me to help me remember what
went down but today all I got is my daily missionary planner to help me
out.
So I`ll just give you the highlights. This week we started teaching a less
active family named la familia Lopez. The dad hadn`t gone in a couple of years
because he was baptized in the US and didn`t feel the love here in Xalpa. His
wife, Antonia, isn`t a member of the church but she already knows a lot of what
we teach. She is awesome. They also have some kids. So I was sitting in
sacrament meeting yesterday and I see the door open up. As a missionary, when
the door opens up you just start creeping automatically because you want anybody
to come and join the fun. I saw that the Lopez family was coming in with huge
smiles on their faces. It was seriously the happiest moment of my entire week to
see them walk in once again. That`s why I love the Obra de la Salvaciòn.
Things were looking up and we thought that we were going to have two
baptisms this Saturday but it doesn`t really look like we will be having them.
But I`m still out there fighting to reach my goals. A lady told me this week
that a church had invited her to go swimming and she went. She was just doing
her thing in the pool when all of the sudden the leader of the church came in
out of nowhere and dunked her into the water. When she came out coughing, she
was informed that she had been baptized. Haha. I know that baptisms take more
work than that. We had a movie night in our ward this week and we gave a lot
couple of church tours that helped us out quite a bit.
One thing that I learned this week is that blessings don`t just randomly
pour down out of heaven in a salt shaker. We recieve blessings because we earned
them. As I try to obey God`s will, I can`t do it perfectly but there are some
things that I can do perfectly. As a missionary I can obey a ton of rules
perfectly and it all depends on me. As members of the church we can control that
too. We can be perfect for example in paying our tithing, or having our Family
Home Evenings every Monday night. If we do things perfectly more and more we can
develop a personal relation with Jesus Christ because we will live like him and
understand him. That is the true blessing of obedience.
Thanks for the emails! I am so happy that I have such a good family and
friends. Keep up the good work. I love you all.
Elder Hubbard
