This Tuesday we had Intercambios with Granada (the area right next to Cedros). I stayed in our area, and my compa went to Granada. My companion for the day was Elder Weaver. He's from Colorado, and has about 7 months out on the mission. This day was a little challenging for me since I had to take the lead in everything haha. Finding houses was probably the hardest part, but I was able to figure it out with time. One special person we met with was Maricela. She was a reference given to us from the sisters in our area. It took me about an hour to find the house. We had to call Maricela about 15 times since I was having no luck. It turns out we wrote down the wrong direction, but finally on that 15th call we figure it out haha. When we met her she had a big smile on her face, and I'm pretty sure it was because of how long it took me to finally figure out where she lived. We taught her the Restoration since she had actually asked, "Why are there so many churches?" We told her that we would LOVE to explain why! She was interested about the end of our message when we told her that she could find out for herself if our message is true. We taught her about the Book of Mormon and the promised that if you read, ponder. and pray that god will answer your prayer through a special feeling that testifies of truth to our hearts which is the Holy Ghost. We invited her to read the Book of Mormon, and she was excited to receive one.
This Saturday we had an open house activity in the chapel in Chia. A bunch of Zones came down for this. When we got there the activity had already started. I was able to fill in for one of our Zone Leaders who was at a station explaining about prophets. There were five station in total for this room. The first was about Jesus Christ, second about prophets, third Families, fourth Temples, and fifth The Book of Mormon. We each had about 3 mins to explain our topic to people coming in. I'm pretty good at explaining prophets now. After about 2 hours of that we ended the open house.
I learned something pretty cool while I was learning about the seed that we plant in our hearts (Alma 32). So first of all you need to understand the tree of life story in order to understand. Alma explains that we first plant the seed of faith in our hearts, and that if we have faith, we will feel the "swelling motions in our hearts to know that its true. Once we gain that testimony we have started on the path to the tree of life. I compared the iron rod to that seed of faith that starts to grow. Each time we learn something new and feel the spirit, our knowledge is growing, and we are taking one step forward on the path to the tree of life, or the seed of faith is growing a little bit more. Imagine the iron rod as that root, thats starting to grow and grow. Until finally once we have reached the end, our tree starts to bring forth fruit that we can partake of (the fruit of everlasting life). Never stop learning, our mission here on earth is to learn something new every single day. I know that you can accomplish that if you read in the Book of Mormon!
Love you all, and I hope you have a great week!
Elder Horton
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