The P-Day Of My Dreams

Hey everyone!! How's it going??? Sorry it's been a little bit since my last email, but that's ok were still alive and well!! The crazy thing is that I hit 16 months in the mission so I'm now getting into my last third of it. It has been a few awesome weeks so lets get into it!

So last week we had the P-Day of my dreams. Basically we got the whole zone together, President Oyarzabal and his wife, the APs together and the whole zone and we had a zone activity! We played basketball, volleyball, spikeball, and everything in between. Let me be the first to tell you that President call Ball!! Then he put on an apron and started grilling up some Carne Asada. And of course everyone begged me to make some funeral potatoes and it was so awesome!!

In the stake I serve in we've really been gearing up for the Puebla Temple open house that starts in about a month. We've had 2 "stake attacks" where we take our whole stake and go to a small town outside of Nealtican and we knock all the doors and gave out a bunch of calendars about the Temple. It was such an amazing activity and in our small town of Tecuanipan we literally received like 20+ references!! The temple is going to change so many lives here!

Lately in the mission we've really been focusing on becoming better teachers of the Word. We've been focusing our efforts of our zone conferences on helping our people in teaching understand and complete their commitments. It's been so fun and I just absolutely LOVE teaching there is always such an amazing spirit inside of a great lesson.

Recently I was reading in 3rd Nephi 17 and it always touches my heart the greatness of the love and compassion The Savior has for all of His people when we strive to love Him and keep His commandments. I love the talk, "Have I truly been forgiven?" and here is a little piece from that talk...

"The Savior had already spent a full day ministering to the people. Yet He had more to do—He was to visit His other sheep; He was to go to His Father. 

Notwithstanding these obligations, He discerned that the people desired for Him to tarry a little longer. Then, with the Savior’s heart full of compassion, one of the greatest miracles in the history of the world occurred: 

He stayed. 

He blessed them. 

He ministered to their children one by one. He prayed for them; 

He wept with them. 

And He healed them.

His promise is eternal: He will heal us."

I know that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forevermore. His character will never change. He will stay in our lives if we make room for him. A lot of times we think that Jesus Christ is the end goal that we are trying to reach at the end of our lives. But it is quite the opposite. He is walking WITH us to the end goal. I know that He will always heal us, because he has always healed me. Jesus Christ will always have compassion upon those that desire that he stays!! 

I invite you all to read 3 Nephi 17 again this week and then ponder and pray to see all the tender mercies the Lord gives you all each and every day! Love you all. Have an amazing week!!