Hola Everyone! This week has been verry interesting... I don´t know where to start...
So on Tuesday I had a Doctors appointment this time with a foot and wound specialist to see what to do about my foot (The same thing as before, it had´t gotten any better). And let it be said I was not ready to recieve what I was told. After looking at it the Doctor explained that it was slightly infected and swollen and for this reason it wasn´t healling. He explained that by walking on it it wasn´t allowed to heal. He told me that this type of thing would just take time and told me I would have to rest from 4-6 weeks! ... This was quite the shock for me... And plans changed quickly... President Bush told me to go home, back up my stuff and come back on the change bus (Wednessday was changes). So I did so...
I don´t think it really suck in until I was no longer in Santa Cruz. On wednessday I got back to San Pedro and I went to an area called San Pedro 2 with my new Companion Elder Silva (He is from Baja California Mexico and just finished his training, he has 3 months in the mission). After arriving to the appartment I could sense the excitment of Elder Silva to go and work, as well as to speak in English (He really wants to learn English!). Yet I must admit I didn´t feel the enthusiams I regularly would feel at changes. I asked him if he knew anything about me, or my situation, and he he said he did not, so I proceeded to explain it. This day was verry difficult for me. It started to really sink in to me that 1. I was in an area where I knew nobody, 2. I had a companion that I didn´t know, and 3. I wasn´t going to be able to work for possibly up to 6 weeks... I must admit I started to fear... I had many thoughts racing through my head. I wondered what God´s plan was? I knew that everything happens for a reason, and I knew that God had a hand in all things, I just wasn´t sure what.
On monday interestingly I had studied the stories of both the people of Limhi (Mosiah 7), as well as the people of Alma (Mosiah 24). Both whom had been put into bondage, yet one people for their wickedness, and the other for their rightousness. What called my atention from this study was that the people of Alma were supported in their afflicions (Mosiah 24:13-15), yet the people of Limhi were not (Mosiah 7:23,29).
With this study fresh in my mind, I tried to trust, and I must say I felt the support of the Lord and continue to do so. Although I still asked what? Pesonally, I have a verry hard time not doing anything, I like to be active and be busy, so even the thought of being stuck in a house for 6 weeks made me want to go crazy... I began to wonder if maybe I was just suppose to go home... Maybe I had finished my mission... But then I thought maybe I just needed to have more faith... On thursday night after recieving the wise counsel of Elder Reeve (the Asistant to the President), I asked for a blessing from my Companion. Happily he gave me a verry special blessing, mencioning that I would recieve good notices from the doctor, as well as I would heal quickly.
On friday, the Doctor said it looked a lot better, and that I would probably be able to return to normal activity the following week. So I will see him again Thursday of this week and then recieve the following counsel!
I am so grateful for the love of my Father in Heaven and am so grateful for the Priesthood power. I feel as though God is so wise, and there are so many things I don´t understand, but I believe I am suppose to be here. I feel so verry blessed, and know that God is watching over me. I have so much to improve, yet I am trying to do my best. I know God wants to teach me more. I wish that I could share with power the great love and feeling of grattitude I have felt, and I wish I could help each and every one of you who read my letters understand the great love of our father in heaven and great desire he has to bless us. I know that God desires that we just put our trust in him! That we listen to his wise counsels and that we "lay hold upon every good thing" (Moroni 7:20). To do so, we must have faith, we must trust, and we must listen to the counsel of all those servants whom God has authorized to teach the truths of his Gospel (Moroni 7:21-33). I solemnly testify that God the Father and Jesus Christ appeared to Joseph Smith in 1820 and they authorized him to restore the truths of thier Gospel and teach us how to "lay hold upon every good thing." I testify that Jesus Christ desires that all men Repent, come unto him, be baptized in his name, and if they do say, having faith in him, they will be saved! (Moroni 7:34).
On monday interestingly I had studied the stories of both the people of Limhi (Mosiah 7), as well as the people of Alma (Mosiah 24). Both whom had been put into bondage, yet one people for their wickedness, and the other for their rightousness. What called my atention from this study was that the people of Alma were supported in their afflicions (Mosiah 24:13-15), yet the people of Limhi were not (Mosiah 7:23,29).
With this study fresh in my mind, I tried to trust, and I must say I felt the support of the Lord and continue to do so. Although I still asked what? Pesonally, I have a verry hard time not doing anything, I like to be active and be busy, so even the thought of being stuck in a house for 6 weeks made me want to go crazy... I began to wonder if maybe I was just suppose to go home... Maybe I had finished my mission... But then I thought maybe I just needed to have more faith... On thursday night after recieving the wise counsel of Elder Reeve (the Asistant to the President), I asked for a blessing from my Companion. Happily he gave me a verry special blessing, mencioning that I would recieve good notices from the doctor, as well as I would heal quickly.
On friday, the Doctor said it looked a lot better, and that I would probably be able to return to normal activity the following week. So I will see him again Thursday of this week and then recieve the following counsel!
I am so grateful for the love of my Father in Heaven and am so grateful for the Priesthood power. I feel as though God is so wise, and there are so many things I don´t understand, but I believe I am suppose to be here. I feel so verry blessed, and know that God is watching over me. I have so much to improve, yet I am trying to do my best. I know God wants to teach me more. I wish that I could share with power the great love and feeling of grattitude I have felt, and I wish I could help each and every one of you who read my letters understand the great love of our father in heaven and great desire he has to bless us. I know that God desires that we just put our trust in him! That we listen to his wise counsels and that we "lay hold upon every good thing" (Moroni 7:20). To do so, we must have faith, we must trust, and we must listen to the counsel of all those servants whom God has authorized to teach the truths of his Gospel (Moroni 7:21-33). I solemnly testify that God the Father and Jesus Christ appeared to Joseph Smith in 1820 and they authorized him to restore the truths of thier Gospel and teach us how to "lay hold upon every good thing." I testify that Jesus Christ desires that all men Repent, come unto him, be baptized in his name, and if they do say, having faith in him, they will be saved! (Moroni 7:34).
I testify that President Russel M. Nelson is the only person on the whole earth is authorized to use all the keys of God, and him along with the first presidency and the Quorum of the twelve Apsotols are truly Prophets, Seers, and Revelators, and as such "can know of things which are past, and also of things which are to come, and by them shall all things be revealed, or, rather, shall secret things be made manifest, and hidden things shall come to light, and things which are not known shall be made known by them, and also things shall be made known by them which otherwise could not be known. Thus God has provided a means that man, through faith, might work mighty miracles; therefore he becometh a great benefit to his fellow beings" (Mosiah 8:17-18).
Isn´t this a demenstration of the love of God? Jesus Christ lives! He came and fulfilled the will of the Father. He took upon him the sins of the world, that we may repent and overcome our fallens state. But if we choose to not harken to the words of Chrsit through his servants we choose to sin and rebell against God and therefore remain in our fallen state and the devil has all power over us (Mosiah 16:5). Do you think God or Christ desire that? No! So let us repent! Let us believe in Christ, lest us lay hold upon every good thing through Faith in "ALL the words which proceedeth forth out of the mouth of God" (Moroni 7: 25).
I love you all! I desire to return to the presence of my Father in Heaven with all those I love! It is my hope and prayer that we all decide to do these things.
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Elder Trenton Horace Harmon
Letters
Mission Honduras San Pedro Sula Oeste
12 calle, Avenida Circunvalación,
S.O. Edificio Yude Canahuati,
3 Nivel, Oficina #4
San Pero Sula, Cortés, Honduras, C.A.
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Apartado Postal 1956
San Pedro Sula, Cortés, Honduras, C.A.
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