First things first, for my fluent Spanish speakers out there, don't sweat it nobody died. Besides a couple of cockroaches and a dove on the street in front of our house. And the legs of my companion, who sadly found out that 2 years away from a weight room means 60 squats probably aren't the best idea (poor Elder Mojica walked with a cane for 2 days). But to explain my title, we had, among many highlights, the opportunity to participate in the semi annual worldwide general conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. And for those of you who don't know what it is, we call it the greatest novela of all time down here. It's 5 two hour broadcasts of messages and counsel from prophets and leaders of our church. And for a missionary its like a birthday, Christmas, winning the lottery, and taste of an In-n-Out hamburger all rolled into one. And sadly no, Salvadorean hamburgers just aren't quite there yet. But during this conference, me and three other gringos got the chance to watch it on a computer in English and one of our personal highlights was a talk by Elder Dallin H Oaks who abruptly declared, "the squirrel was dead" to the amusement of 4 English deprived Yankees in Central America. Now I'm not gonna copy his talk here in my email but I highly recommend you read it, and I am going to focus on one point that he made.
This week, we had a couple pretty weird experiences. At one point one lady told us she knew we were there to marry her to an animal and she wanted nothing to do with us for example. But what we had the most of was people telling us it wasn't their time. Telling us "one day" or "soon". And so when I heard the talk by Elder Oaks and later another one by President Russell M Nelson, I felt like that's what I should share with y'all today. That NOW is the time. We don't wait until we fall off the bike to put on a helmet, we don't wait until we trip to tie our shoes. The point that I took out of those talks and our experiences this week is this: If there's something that you know you need to do, do it. If you're waiting for a sign, or the perfect opportunity, or a little more time, its never gonna happen. There are things in my life that I know for sure are true, and one of those is the Gospel of Jesus Christ. And this principle applies directly here too. Because I know this gospel is true, because I can't deny that, I can't afford to wait or postpone. I have to act. And that is my invitation to you all. To act. To look at the things in your life that you know you have been putting off. To look and to act. Because progression, happiness, joy, peace, those aren't things that come by sitting still. Those are things that come with action. I hope everyone has an awesome week and stays balling out.
SALUD
Elder Moulton
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