new beginnings

I received a call from the mission president yesterday telling me that I´m being transfered to a new area where I´ll be training a new missionary! This is going to be awesome! I would like to share about an amazing couple that we started teaching. On christmas day there´s hardly anyone on the streets to teach, but we ran into a group of three people on the road and decided to teach them. We were giving out Liahonas to every one we encountered as a christmas present. So we gave a liahona these three people and found out one of them was a member, and the other was his son, but hadn´t been baptized. We did a pray and taught the first lesson on the road, and marked a day to visit the son and his wife another day. It was a fantastic lesson. We watched meet the mormons with them. We then came back again to teach them the plan of salvation with a member who accompanied us. The husband said that after we gave him the book of mormon he had a dream telling him that he needed to read this book. He then read the part in the book of mormon we had left for him and really liked it. They accepted to be baptized and are preparing to be legally married. They were so happy to hear the message of the plan of salvation. They said that everything we taught made sense and they had never heard a message like that before. They also thanked us a lot for entering into their house to share messages of God. I know that missionary work is a very happy and joyful work. Those who follow god´s will, will find the greatest peace that exists in this world.

As I was thinking about my personal standards and my goals I thought of a phrase that has helped me and may help anyone who reads it.

 "Have patience because you will never learn everything all at once. The spirit will teach you little by little. Follow his counsel with exactness. A man is not expected to know more than he is capable. Have confidence in yourself and faith in your decisions. Faith is what leads us to our greatest accomplishments in life. Have faith, go, and if you mess up, just get back up again. With the continuous desire to try again, you will never fail."

Life is not easy, but as we pass more challenges it gets better, and we´ll find greater joy in serving others. I know that my savior is Jesus Christ. I know that the Book of Mormon is true. I know that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints was established by Jesus Christ and is the only true church on the earth today.