Stand Up for what You Know is Right

Happy December everyone!!! December is the best, I love this time of year especially the snow, so those of you back home enjoy the snow! haha, maybe we will get some torrential rain on Christmas hopefully, rain is the next best thing.

This first week with my new trainer has been alright. We have gotten to know each other a lot more, he's a pretty cool Canadian haha. He is actually the Zone Leader here on the west side of the Demerara. This first week he has kind of taken a step back in all of our lessons, just to kind of see how I was teaching and how much of the doctrine that I know, so it has kind of been tough basically teaching by myself, but now that he has observed me this coming week will be a lot better. Our success here in Parika has kind of sucked this past week. We only had 5 investigators at church, and that didn't include the Smith family who is supposed to be baptized, or the Smiths who were just baptized either. The Sabbath Day is something that people struggle with here a lot, but we are going to try and change that. We didn't have as many lessons as we would have liked, we had a whole lot of fall throughs, but we are hopefully going to increase our teaching pool this coming week. Really the best part of this week was that we started a new contacting area, so hopefully the Lord is preparing many of them to receive the gospel and get baptized. 

My spiritual experience came from reading 2 Nephi 7: 6-9 this week during personal study. It talks about the Lord Jesus Christ. When he was on the earth he was ridiculed and abused and rejected by so many. So much more than any of us can ever experience. But he willingly took it, even though he was the Son of God, and he could have chastised them or struck them all down, instead he willingly took the persecution that eventually lead to the Atonement. Sometimes each of us will feel a small measure of the rejection and ridicule that Christ felt in our daily lives by living by the standards that we do. But this scripture strengthens us by assuring the Jesus Christ knows exactly how we feel and when we are serving Him, He is on our side. And when He is on our side, who can be against us?

Everyone have a good week and continue to stand up for what you know is right.

Elder Porritt

Our new contacting area is MUDDY