Thanks for the letters, eyres! and thanks
for dear eldering stuff, mom. Maddi´s training!! how good for her!
in her 4th transfer? What a BAWS. can you please send me the mission
address for Maddi (Chicago Mission) and Landon (some Bolivian Mission)
please? thanks! Happy Birthday to Stephen Patterson, Camila (who got
baptized in this ward this past july), and today my COMP, ELDER
GUZMAN!!!! He´s a great guy. keep going on that eagle project, Hayden!
and dad, I´m still always working on the language. i´ll continue even
after the mission working on it. I did try to read this flyer that was
given to us during this march, and i couldn´t understand half of it (All
i got was that they were pro- liberty in every aspect of life, anti
capitalism and anti government.... oh dear.....)
So,
my ankle is doing better. it doesn´t look like it did a few days
ago, which is good. Those pictures i sent were when it was bad and
super swollen. suuuuuper swollen. but thanks to icing it a few times,
this deep heat cream from familia Duran, this sac of beans that you
microwave and it heats up- also from familia Duran--, and the
priesthood, it´s much much better. not perfect, but getting there.
It´s funny. every Chilean is a doctor, or at least thinks they are.
you tell a Chilean your foot hurts bad, and they say, "I have a fix for
that! and it really works. others will tell you something else, but
this is really what will help." Well, 6 people will tell you 6 things,
and they all say theirs is the one that works..... "Icing it doesn´t
work." "I´ve already iced it and it´s helping." "...oh... well what
you really need to do is put a few spoonfuls of salt in there to help
give it nutrients." (?!?) "no no no! vinegar! You need to put vinegar
in the cold ice water!" yup yup. pretty funny stuff. So I trusted
what Hna. Duran said and gave me because A) she has her head on
straight, B) the cream was in English, from Australia, and C) her
husband was raised in America (Provo), and he has leg problems. and it
actually helped.
It
got pretty cold this week! and it rained with a few thunderings! how
nice! this week it´ll stay in the low to mid 70s, which is much better
than high 80s and 90s. but from here on out, it´ll be getting a bit
colder, with lots more rain.
Fabiola is...
progressing.
Prayers are what are going to help the situation. Prayers and animo.
But she loves reading the Book of Mormon, and knows she´s a better
person because of what she´s applying to her life. Time to whip out
the proclamation to the world: the FAMILY.
I
read "Cuarto Misionero" by Elder Coorbridge of the 70 (and the Chilean
Area President) that he wrote when he was a mission president. It´s
incredible. I´m asking the mission office for a copy of it in English,
and I´ll send a copy home to you, dad (I think you´ll find it
interesting, and it can also be applied to living the Gospel, not just
as missionaries), and I want to send a copy to Andrew before he leaves.
it´s incredible and really made me think. a lot. Man, I´ve gotta make
some changes. There´s always room to improve, because none of us are
perfect.
God doesn´t change. We do. We need
to change. Constantly. And why? because we´re not perfect. We all
need to change until we get to the point where we don´t need to change
anymore -- perfection. And if in this life we decide we are done
changing, we´re wrong, because perfection is impossible to attain in
this life. But we can progress and get a lot closer to perfection here
at the end of our lives than we were at the beginning, if we chose to
learn and grow. This perpetual process of Change towards perfection is
made possible through Jesus Christ, the son of the Perfect God. The
perfect God chose his only 100% Obedient Son to be the means by which we
can Change. trials, temptations, afflictions, sickness, and everything
HARD in our lives exist to help us either recognize the need to change
or develop some attribute of perfection, whether it be obedience,
humility, patience, love, submission, meekness, willingness to submit,
etc. As the prophet Amulek taught, "But that ye have patience, and bear
with those afflictions, with a firm hope that ye shall one day rest
from all your afflictions." When we have changed to perfection, we will
have experienced all. there will be no more trials or afflictions,
just as God, in his perfection, has no trial or affliction he must bear
in order to progress. IF WE CHOOSE to use trials as an opportunity to
apply the Atonement of Christ to change, we can have a firm hope that we
will come to perfection, where we will rest from all afflictions. This
is called Eternal Life. Que sea nuestra meta la vida eterna.
Elder Cole Moffat
