Monday, June 15, 2015
This was a really good week! On the mission I am slowly but
surely coming to understand the process of repentance. I had a deep talk with
my companion on Thursday where we reflected on the time we have lost together. I
love Elder Velasquez. He is awesome! Sometimes in the mission you have to pass
time with a companion whom you don’t get along with all too well. That is not
the case with me and Elder Velasquez.
We get along really well but we have really not been worthy
of the Lord’s help for the majority of our time together. We have not been
super dooper disobedient but just through the little things here and there and
a little bit everywhere we have really lost the guidance of the Lord and we
have not had any success in terms of converts. In our talk I expressed to him
the regret I have in my heart for the lost time and the waste of what could
have been an amazing companionship. He counseled me with my own quote that I
use all the time. He told me "Elder, don’t worry, the Lord does not judge
us on our past actions, be them good or bad, He judges us on how we end up. Our
time together isn’t over, we still have 2 weeks!" We raised our voices to
the Lord and repented from the depths of our hearts! It was great. After, we
stood from our kneeled position and hugged it out like two bros who were ready
to go out and do some serious work! We had some really beautiful experiences
after that!
On Saturday we met a lady named Maria. She was really closed
off to us in the beginning but after we talked for a little bit she opened up
and confessed to us that she was really sad because her son, who is really
stuck in the whole drug scene, steals her things and sells them to earn drug
money. He stole her gas tank which hooks up to her water oven stove. She was so
sad and told us that now she had to go and search for firewood. I felt soooo
bad for her in that very moment! The people here hate asking for help,
especially if you are wearing a white shirt and tie. They don’t really
understand that it is our work clothes. We offered to help her but she didn’t
accept. We asked to borrow her machete but she denied the request. I told her
that we would be back soon with firewood whether she liked it or not! We then
proceeded to search. Our search led us to a part of the area where I had never visited
before! We found a fallen tree from which I, with my Nephi like strength (with
Elder Velasquez on the other end) carried a branch the size of a small adolescent
teenage tree all the way to her house! She was so happy to see that we had
actually returned! The only bummer is that I don’t think that the branch is
going to fit into her oven so we are going to have to borrow an axe from
someone so that we can go back and cut it up for her. We had other pretty
experiences but I’m out of time!
I love you all!
I hope all is well
back home and I send a special hug to the Jackson family! I love you guys so
much! Take care!
Elder Spencer McKee
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