Week #42 11/02/2015

So Halloween was fun. We had to go in at 6 (in case people mistake us for trick or treaters. Also drunk people.)  and so we watched the Testaments in our apartment and I made grilled cheese and drank a hot cup of Abuelita. It was sweet. Sunday was stake conference, and it was going awesome until the stake president got up and gave his talk on how the missionaries don't need member meals, we need referrals and help teaching. We need both!! I'm losing weight here! Not really, but still. To add insult to injury, no one even signed up for our meal calendar this month. To be fair, we forgot to pass it around the week before last and last week was conference, but still. 

It has been a great week. We taught Ernesto the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and we told him about the importance of prayer and asking to know if what we teach is true, and he just said "I don't need to ask, I already feel it's true, but if it will put your mind at ease, sure, I will." That was pretty awesome. It will be a process, but he has gotten rid of all the booze in his house, and accepted a date for baptism, so I am pretty happy. Just another thing to point out how awesome and necessary the spirit is in teaching. Love you guys, hope you all have a great week!

Heleman 13

38 But behold, your days of probation are past; ye have procrastinated the day of your salvation until it is everlastingly too late, and your destruction is made sure;yea, for ye have sought all the days of your lives for that which ye could not obtain; and ye have sought for happiness in doing iniquity, which thing is contrary to the nature of that righteousness which is in our great and Eternal Head.

There truly is no real happiness in the world. I see it every day, life that were focused around "fun,"  only to result in sadness. it is one of the Greatest lies the devil has told. "Sin is lawlessness (1 Jn. 3:4); it is a refusal on men’s part to submit to the law of God (Rom. 8:7). By transgression man loses control over his own will and becomes the slave of sin (Rom. 7:14) and so incurs the penalty of spiritual death, which is alienation from God (Rom. 6:23)" 

We become slaves, not free. I have never met a man who became happier, his life more fulfilling and his ability to Love, bless, and serve others increase by turning away from God.