So this week was actually a really big blessing and answer to my and my companion´s prayers. With our area we have been really struggling to find new to people to teach, and the people who we are teaching are just having a really hard time progressing for some reason. Haven´t had many people with plans to get baptized because of this also so we have been fighting with that these past couple months, until the Lord led some new people and blessings into our lives. We have found some incredible people who I´m not sure how to explain it other than the Lord truly does prepare the hearts of His children in THEIR due time.
With a lot of hard work, diligence and patience Elder Berges and I have been doing a lot of things as a companionship to better help the work here in Cañoto. We now have a couple families on track to get married and then later baptized as well as some long time investigators who are finally keeping commitments, reading the scriptures daily, coming to church regularly, and growing their testimony of this restored gospel.
I have always looked to the story of Job in the old testament for strength even before the mission because of the principle it has taught me and continues to teach me on faith in the Lord even in our times of trials. That truly is my fountain of peace when it comes to tough times and tribulations in the mission and in life itself. Once we begin to understand the Lord´s will, understand his refining process in our lives and the truth "that faith is things which are hoped for and not seen; wherefore, dispute not because ye see not, for ye receive no witness until after the trial of your faith."(Ether 12:6) The Lord answers our honest and sincere prayers and He knows the righteous desires of our hearts. Once we put our trust in Him, and realize that even from the Fall of Adam and Eve until present time, there has been "an opposition in all things".
Love you all.
Elder Connor Ryan deCocq
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