and this thought I had recorded in my personal history:
We Are All Enlisted. I LOVE this hymn, it is so energetic, but suddenly, the Spirit came to me and I could no longer sing as I came to verse three. I thought about Daniel in the MTC in Guatemala. I thought about the men guarding the Temple and MTC, with guns. I thought of the danger that he may face - but how he has wrote to me of not having fear. I could imagine the smile on his face as he is doing the Lord's work. He is a soldier in God's army right now and I know that the Lord's side will be triumphant. I know Daniel volunteered to be in this army and he is joyful and I KNOW he is protected by the Lord. Suddenly this entire hymn became very real to me. I LOVE when that happens.
This was his reply:
What I can't believe is how fat I look in that picture. Haha, and like a little kid. I feel as though I have changed quite a bit in my time here: personally, physically and spiritually. it is cool though. I love that thing you wrote about me in the Guate MTC. It really is a dangerous country here, I'm not going to lie, but we really are protected here and the Lord looks after us all the time if we are obedient. that is one of the things that i love the most about the mission is learning how to recognize the spirit and how to know when it isn't. as for the package i cant really think of anything else i need. I'm not to sure. but don't forget the asu jersey that you said you will send, if you didn't find it don't worry about it, i think it would be better to have at home. haha. just a heads up, this week we are going to the capital to go to changes and i am all out of the eye solution stuff so i will be buying a package of the eye solution for me. it will be like 200 quetz which is like 25 dollars i think. but it is a really big container. the rain has actually stopped here and so it is good now, earthquakes are still happening like crazy but I'm used to them now. they are crazy strong sometimes though. the two missionaries are doing great now, i had an interview with the one and i talked to him about some of the things he needed to change and so we set some goals and were good to go. and yes i love all my companions. they have all been so great to me and teach me so much. i don't know why people have problems with their companions but to be honest i love all mine. i mean we definitely have some moments where there are some arguments but no one is perfect and we learn from those moments and move on. but yeah well here is a little about my investigators and my week.
I wanted to share what my branch president talked about yesterday, you know being the 5th Sunday of the week so he taught. He taught us about how we need to be better at teaching our kids. I like that because it really gets me thinking of that kind of stuff so I can see what works and what doesn't work so I can be ready for my kids. He taught us how we need to teach our kids from the moment they leave the womb. We should never make exceptions for them because they are kids. He told us, the commandments apply to all people who live here on this earth. and thus we need to teach our kids to tithe and fast when they are young. Then he told us, how do we teach them, well through example, and actually helping them do it. It was really neat and really true. ha. That is definitely going to be something I work really hard on my kids with. Teaching them those important principles as well as all the others. Because really the happiness of this life only comes from living the gospel.
So also I needed to tell you something. So on Saturday there were these 2 people who got baptized from Jalpatagua and they were the ones who I had an interview with about 2 weeks ago but needed to change a couple of things so we met again. I'm not sure if I already told you this dream that the girl had but she told me it again in the interview and I got chills it was so cool. She said one night she was sitting in her house and she saw a Book of Mormon for children learning and so she read a little bit about Nephi, then as she finished reading she went to bed. She went to pray and then she fell asleep. As she was sleeping she said that she had a dream, in the beginning I was there and me and her were talking. I had a book and it was a really cool looking book she said, she said that when I opened it it was a dvd and I gave it to her and then I told her to follow me. She was following me in the church hallway when we got to the end of the hallway there was a door. I told her go inside this door and just listen to what you feel. She went inside and was then in the presence of 2 older looking people dressed in white and they didn't say anything but she was overcome by the feeling these 2 people were giving off. She said she just felt a burning in her bosom, then she said when she left the room there was another elder and he then gave her the invitation to be baptized and she excepted. Then she woke up and she committed to keep all the commandments and to never miss one. It was a really neat experience for her and for me too. So we then did the interview and then she was baptized. I'm really bummed I left my camera at home that day. As well as pretty much the whole week so that's why I don't have to many pics.
Anyway we are contacting in a new form here. Since Christmas is coming up people are becoming obsessed with selling the shampoo and cologne and all that stuff so we just tell people, oh are you selling that, oh well can we come in and see what you have. then we go inside and we just look at it for like 4 mins and then they start asking questions about what we do and where we are from and then it slowly changes to the gospel topic. it works like a charm. haha i was telling a friend i think i have literally found a way to have a gospel topic just about any thing now. i can relate almost anything to the gospel. it is cool.
So a little about the investigators. so if you remember correctly Luisa, Sandra and Brenda were supposed to be baptized this past week but they all fell. they didn't go through with it and we were really bummed. we are going to work really hard with them these next couple weeks. I really hope we can get things going and get them feeling comfortable about these things. We are just going over there and reading the book of Mormon with them every time we go just so they get used to it and start to love it. It is working now. They really are good people but its time we need to start looking for more people to teach so were really going to focus this week on the people who are progressing and see what we can do to help them, and the people who are not progressing were going to see what we need to change so that they start progressing and on the down time to find new people.
That is pretty much the big news for the week. It was a really good week my comp also completed 6 months so we burnt one of his ties, haha so yeah it was fun.
love elder daniel shipley
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