Now This Is The Commandment

Another week. The heat is coming back. I´m not sure if I already complained about it last week but I am going to do it again. It didn´t rain all week and it has been pure sun. Walking to a from visits in the afternoon is painful. We try and to stick to whatever shade their is in the street to try and stay a little cooler.

Also in my area there is a ton of dust. When it hasn´t rained for it week there is dust everyone. It basically feels like we are in the desert haha. We have been getting home and shaking all the dust from our shoes, pants, and socks.

This week they are going to announce transfers. This is my third time where it could be me or my companion who leaves and we don´t know. I imagine that I am going to be the one that stays because I have never been the one that stays. Or I could go. You never know. We will see next week.

I enjoy my district in this area. I have really cool district and I have gotten to know every missionary pretty well. I enjoy going to district meetings and doing divisions with the other missionaries.

Last week I think I found another one of my favorite scriptures. In 3 Nephi 27:20, "Now this is the commandment: Repent, all ye ends of the earth, and come unto me and be baptized in my name, that ye may be sanctified by the reception of the Holy Ghost, that ye may stand spotless before me at the last day." I love it because last week we were trying to figure out how to help Maitte decide to be baptized. She was attending church, reading the Book of Mormon, and even going to seminary but she still felt hesitant about baptism. So we read this scripture with her and Dunia. The spirit basically opened up everyone's eyes to the plain truth explained in this verse. Dunia and Maitte commented on how they didn´t fully understand that "Be Baptized" is a commandment just as "Thou Shall Not Kill" is a commandment. They also understood that it is necessary so that we can be clean at the last day. A few days after that lesson Maitte and her sister were baptized. Now I am so grateful for the plainness of that scripture and for the spirit we felt as we read and pondered it.

I know I kind of jumped around today with thoughts and stuff haha. Hope you enjoyed. Love you all!

Elder Gessell