A Light Lesson

This week has been really busy. I honestly can not explain all of the things we do because it is a lot and some things are really random. We really run around a lot of the city and some nights we have to stay up a little later working on speacial projects or have our sleep interrupted to go pick someone up at a train station then go back to sleep.  It is a very hectic and busy enviroment in the offices. Just like the streets of Montevideo. It is funny to be literally praying for your life everytime we get out on the intense streets, and cutting and being cut off by people while of course listening to the Morman Tabernacle Choir....it is really funny.

Anyway with the enivorment I am really learning that well sometimes we just need to take a break and enjoy the moment for survival from stress and well just to enjoy and be happy. Alway sneed to be postive and look for the light at the end of the tunnel.

One of these moments of peace in our crazy week was attending the confrence for all of the zone leaders and going to the temple. We did not get to stay for all the confrence but our president talked about the light. It was really Intresting. Before I give his notes on it I want to tell a story that came to my mind while he was talking about this.

It reminded me a couple weeks later in my other area in a lesson that I had. In this lesson the man asked why we have suffering and bad things happen in the good people and what is bad and evil. We talked about the plan of Salvation but failed and luckily we came back and talked about him with the bishop who had served a mission and talked about how darkness like light is just the abscence of light, and eveil is the abscence of good.

Now with that thinking what is light? Well we find out answer in 3 Nephi Chapter 15

9 Behold, I am the law, and the light. Look unto me, and endure to the end, and ye shall live; for unto him thatendureth to the end will I give eternal life.

 10 Behold, I have given unto you the commandments; therefore keep my commandments. And this is the law and the prophets, for they truly testified of me.

 11 And now it came to pass that when Jesus had spoken these words, he said unto those twelve whom he had chosen:

 12 Ye are my disciples; and ye are a light unto this people, who are a remnant of the house of Joseph.

I thought that was really intresting then. President Smith talked to us about how we are all called to be an example and share the light of Christ with all for this we go to 3 Nephi Chapter 12

 14 Verily, verily, I say unto you, I give unto you to be the light of this people. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid.

 15 Behold, do men light a candle and put it under a bushel? Nay, but on a candlestick, and it giveth light to all that are in the house;

 I really liked this and it has been really intresting. It also reminded me of this video from David A. Bednar  Patterns of Light  http://www.mormonchannel.org/video/mormon-messages?v=1737858984001

Anyway sadly I do not have speakers on my computer so I can not comment more about the video but I hope you enjoy this light lesson and leaned something like I did it was really intresting.

To all of my friends, family, and anyone who just happens to read this I invite you to share your light and let it shine.

Who is Driving your Life?

This week has been a really busy week. We had interviews with the mission president and learned a lot.  One of the challenges he has given us is to internilize the doctorine especially with the Plan of Salvation.  Twice a week during our companionship studies we take turns and share all that we knows with scriptures and experinces about one part of this plan. The other then does the same and we have a disscussion and create questions to study or ask our mission president. 

When we were talking about the Creation and studying it I found this scriprutre in 1 Nephi 17:36

36 Behold, the Lord hath created the ^aearth that it should be ^binhabited; and he hath created his children that they should possess it.

This world was created for us to possess it. It made me think how often we don´t drive our lives and we let the world plan what we are going to do on a daily basis. If we focus on the eternal perspectives we control our lives, the world around us, and when we will recieve in the next live. How luckily we are to have this plan.

Now for the experince. This week we were teaching a man and usually it is really hard to find him because he is always at the Bar. Just a little background he is a refrence from his son in another department what is what is like our states in the United States. Anyway this man has no realtion with is family and is kind of a wreck. One day we happened to find him and said my life is over. He has lost a lot of family and money and probably more because of is addiction to Alchohal and Drugs.
The thing that was worst besides the feeling he could change was the reason he felt the world was over. He took us into the house to look at his TV that didn´t work. He had worked for a year he said to get this TV and when he was moving it he dropped it...he was drunk at the time probably. This is why his world was over. I am sure it was a something more as well and everything was just adding up and the poor man needed a realease. He is funny because he doesn´t want to talk then ends up talking for 20 minutes we hope to help him but he is always drunk and has no desire to change because he feel at 75 his world is over and can´t change.

En the end it made me think about all or our little habits or small addicitons like facebook or things we do just for routine that don´t profit us anything. Or we are doing things that we don´t like to do. In the end it is important to remember we are here to possess the world, we have a purpose, and we can change yes we will have trials, but the more we learn about the plan the more we will posses the world and find peace and happiness in your life.

That is the story and thoughts for this week. I encourage all of you to study the creation and share your thoughts about this post or just about things your learned studying the creation in the comments below. There are tons of great scriptures in Preach my Gospel you can use.

In the end I love all of you and hope this week you go own what ever you need or want to do this week.

Sincerly,

Elder Holt

Sharing Mission Experinces Online

Hello Friends and Family!

This week has been amazing and like all ways I can never put it into words. Here in Uruguay it is the Semana Santa also known as Holy week or other people call it week of Tourismo. A lot of the time the question is what is this week a week of tourism or a holy week. This has been a great conversation starter and lead to many great discussions such as should we remember Christ all of the time, only for a week and our beliefs about Easter. I am short on time because we only have so much time on the computer so next week I will share more but for know look at this video. I am also starting this blog to share like the church is encouraging all members you can read more about sharing the gospel online from this article.  https://www.lds.org/church/share/sharing-via-blogs?lang=eng

Here is a cool video an other Elder showed me today  http://www.mormonchannel.org/video/mormon-messages?v=1737858982001

Talk to you all next week

Love,

Elder Holt