Week 14

Hola todos!

I hope all of you are still prospering in the land even though it's been like two months since we had normal lives. Congrats to all of you for living in these rough times.

Twas just your average awesome week in the mission, except today we did something even more super awesomer - we went on a HIKE 😲woop woop! The Zone Leaders, the Sister Training Leaders, the sister missionaries in our district, and Elder Turner and I drove up to some Utah mountains and did a hike... well sorta, the road was closed off a couple miles from the start of the trail, but that didn't stop us from walking on a road for a couple miles before finding a dirt trail and hiking that for another mile before calling it quits 😅 But still it was a blast, we got to actually socialize in person for once, and we got some nice pictures as well!

There is some good news from the mission as well. So some of the restrictions that we're placed for the safety of the missionaries are starting to be relieved! We are now allowed to meet in groups of 20 rather than just groups of 6. Also, exchanges were reimplemented so we're now able to work with missionaries other than just our companions. And all of the foreign missionaries that we're sent back to their home countries are finally beginning to be reassigned! This means we're gonna receive a whole bunch of new/reassigned missionaries in our mission in about a week or two, meaning things are about to be even more crazy here.

But what this all really means is that things are lookin' good for the future. I would say it might be alright to start heading outside and having normal lives by the end of May, but that's just me having hope.

Speaking of hope, one of the scriptures that we shared with a lot of the people we taught this week can be found in the Book of Mormon, in Ether 12:4, which states...

"Wherefore, whoso believeth in God might with surety hope for a better world, yea, even a place at the right hand of God, which hope cometh of faith, maketh an anchor to the souls of men, which would make them sure and steadfast, always abounding in good works, being led to glorify God."

I love the line "hope cometh of faith", because without faith, there's nothing to hope for. Without faith in Christ and His Atonement, we can't hope that we'll be forgiven and cleansed from our wrongdoings. Without faith in God and His plan for us, we can't hope that after death, we'll have the opportunity to live with Him and our families forever.

So have hope. Believe in God to hope for a better world, cause we could sure use one right about now. See you all next week 😁

Elder Terry

Fotos (all are from the hike 😅) :

1. A bunch of guapos on a wall