I don’t remember how to spell successfull.

                                       Making Tortillas with Daniela y Alejandra!

Hey, this week has been great, busy, and successfull (I don’t remember how to spell successfull) I´ve lost all sense of English, ha-ha. 

                                 Making pupusa with the bishops wife, Hermana Odilia. 

Well it’s good to hear from you guys always, I feel like time is just ticking so fast so I have to work even harder to make sure I give it all I can in these last months. This week was our Stake Conference, and we were able to listen to another speaker from the Quorum of the 70, I don’t remember his name, it was some difficult Spanish name, ha-ha, but it went well.

The great news is that Hermana Sandra did come to church this week with her two sons, and we have taught them almost everything they need to know, they are happy and desirous to be baptized this coming Saturday. Every lesson we have taught them, they have understood so well, and they really have true desires to progress in this gospel. When she was taught the palabra de sabiduria they immediately stopped drinking coffee, and started drinking the Guatemalan substitute called Morcaffe. And yesterday when we talked about the temple Hermana Sandra committed to endure to the end, keeping her sights on the temple, because that´s going to be her goal, that she can go to the temple in one year. I am so thankful for the opportunity to teach an investigator like her. 

I've been thinking...
"Are our choices leading us towards happiness or down another path?"
Think about this for a second...

Matthew chapter 13,

3 And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow;

4 And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up:

5 Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth:

6 And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.

7 And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them:

8 But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold.

I`d like us to imagine that the seeds in this parable represent us and our testimonies of the restored gospel.

18 ¶Hear ye therefore the parable of the sower.

19 When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catchethaway that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side.

20 But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it;

21 Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.

22 He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and thedeceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.

23 But he that received seed into the good ground is he thatheareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.

Well I’ve been thinking a lot lately about this sower, and his seeds that were scattered about the earth. We all come from different places, families, and cultures. We all have different problems to face, and challenges to overcome. We all have landed in some part of the world, and don`t have a choice in where we start our lives... but what we have control of is what we do with ourselves after coming to this life. If I were a sower and had a bunch of seeds and some fell upon the wayside, stony places, or among the thorns, I would go and pick the seeds up and move them into good ground. But as we all know the Lord offers us his hand at all times (alma 19:35-36) but doesn´t lift us until we take hold of his hand ourselves.

It doesn`t matter where we`ve fallen, upon the wayside, in stony places, or among the thorns... what matters is that we pick ourselves up, and move to the good ground, where our testimony can grow, and flourish.

If we`ve stopped praying morning and night, if we`ve stopped reading the scriptures... or maybe never even started, if we miss the sacrament on Sundays, and start to forget the purpose of the Sabbath day... it could be that we`ve fallen away from good ground. But that doesn´t mean we can’t get out!

Let’s pick ourselves up, and move unto good ground, and as we do so, let’s call out to others who have fallen among the thorns, let’s move as families to the good ground, and strive to build our foundation there. I love you all, and am so thankful that I`ve had the opportunity to not only help others, but to help myself constantly return unto good ground.

Thanks for all your prayers and support,

Elder Dalton

This past week we had a baptism of a family, Hemana Sandra and her two kids, Selvin and Christian, I’ll have to tell you about it next week, cause I’ve ran out of time, ha-ha, there is never any time any more to get anything done.