I end my training after this week! I'm excited because of all of the experiences I will have, and all the miracles I will be able to see. I'm also very anxious because a lot of responsibility is going to be mine now. I can't wait to learn more and more everyday. Something excited that came up was the announcement that we're going the Bucaramanga this Thursday! One of the Seventy that spoke in General Conference (Êlder Claudio Zivic) is going to speak to us and give us some secret sauce to start applying in our day to day activities! We're taking a 3 hour bus ride there and going to be living with some other Elders for the next 2 days.
Monday we were in the center of Cùcuta (El Ventura) This is a three story mall that we go to for the good stuff! I The store in the mall is called El Metro. It's pretty much like a Walmart with everything you could want! They always have my skippy peanut butter! There are always two little jars of peanut butter sitting in the snack aisle, and I always take them. Elder Quiñonez and I love to eat pizza as much as we get the chance each P-day. We went to Dominos since a new promotion came out for 20,000 pesos (about $6 U.S. dollars) we can get a decent sized pizza, enough to fill up each of us! Splitting is two ways makes it that much more worth it!
Our family night was with the Amaya family. We shared a video titled "Gracias a Êl" It was a video of his life, flashing back between life experiences of people. This life is hard, its 100% certain that each of us will go through our own challenging experiences in this life. A quote that hit me so hard was by Elder Holland, "Salvation is not a cheap experience" He continued to say (though not in his words exactly) that our Savior lived the hardest life that was ever lived, the most challenging, the most painful, the most of everything! He experienced every feeling of pain, discomfort, sickness, and sin that we will ever commit. Elder Holland went on to say that if the Saviors life wasn't easy, what makes us think that ours will be easy. I know this is true, but I also know that because of the Atonement of Jesus Christ we can feel true happiness, we can rid ourselves of Painful guilt through the Loving power of our Savior and Redeemer Jesus Christ. He made it possible for us to be able to live again one day. To be able to return back to our Father and Heavens presence. He went through everything because of his Eternal love for each and every single soul that has walked the earth, and will walk the earth. I know that if you will apply the power of the Atonement in your lives you will be able to feel the strength of God, giving you the energy and mentality to keep going in your most difficult of trials, and that you will be able to improve each day and become one step close to perfection.
On Friday I was reading a scripture in Alma 57:21. In this point in time the two-thousand stripling warriors (commanded by Helaman) were fighting the Lamanites since Ammoron sent a huge army to slay them. The words in this scripture filled me with the Spirit as I read, "they did obey and observe to perform every word of command with exactness, yea, and even according to their faith it was done into them" These young men had so much faith that the Lord would deliver them if they were obedient to the commandments of God. They ended up completely obliterating the Lamanite army, and they didn't lose a single soul. Do we have faith to obey the Lords every command when we are in difficult situations. For example, tithing! If we are in economical trouble, will we stop following this commandment to pay a faithful tithe? A prophet of God, Nephi said,(1 Nephi 3:7), " for I know that the Lord giveth no commandments unto the children of men, save he shall prepare a way for them that they may accomplish the thing which he commandeth them." How much faith do we have in this scripture!? If you have faith you act! so ACT and keep the commandments! To keep the Sabbath Day Holy, to pay your tithing, to keep the WoW, to live the law of Chastity, to serve and love others, and I know I don't have all of them up here but I want you to get the point that God will bless you as you faithfully keep his commandments. He will meet every need that is necessary for you to be able to keep the commandments. I love sharing this with investigators, and less-active members.
There is so much to learn when we faithfully keep of Covenants to God (Ether 12:6). I love this church, I love the knowledge that we can receive if we put in the time and effort.
I Love Ya!!!!
Elder Horton
Bucaramanga, Columbia
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| Bus ride to Bucaramanga |
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| Elder Monson and Elder Orr (The Elder Towers!) |
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| Me outside the chapel in Bucaramanga |
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| Me and Elder Quiñonez outside the chapel in Bucaramanga |
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| Missionaries in the District |
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| Bowling with the District! |
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