Hey everyone, hope everything is going great. Sorry for the lack of emails lately its been kinda crazy down here. And while half the people here in Apopa think that our little earthquake was a sign of something catastrophic, we are actually doing pretty good. This week brought some good times and some bad times. The best way to sum it up would probably be yesterday when we had to turn down our 4th dinner because we were just stuffed but they still gave us cake, or running into the little horse (the one that bit me last week) in literally every part of town. We got to eat Taco Bell because my companion had to go to downtown, but the highlight of the week would for sure be the baptism of Betsy. Betsy is a little girl who just turned 8 and decided she wanted to be baptize. She asked me to baptize her, which made my day, and we had a ton of support from local members who even brought cake. It was all in all just a really special experience.
Now to explain my title, "What would you do if...?" This week my companion and I have been trying hard to look towards the future. Which means planning for potential or probable obstacles. When you start thinking down the road a little bit, you start asking the question, what are we gonna do if... ? or how would we react if...? and you get a little hypothetical (which is one of my favorite words in Spanish). While we can't predict the future we can plan for how we are going to handle it. If you make a decision as to, "What would you do if...?" before the situation actually occurs, you will be much more ready to overcome whatever "Ifs" come your way. I want to share the story of a friend of ours who recently stopped drinking alcohol. He told us when he first stopped drinking that he anticipated the process to be tough, he was thinking towards the future. He then proceeded to tell us that even though he would have temptations and tests, that he had made up his mind to say no. Long story short, 2 times this week different friends offered him something to drink and because he had made his decision beforehand, he was ready to say no. It wasn't easy but it was easier than an on the spot split decision because he had planned for this before. In the end, this friend of ours came to church with us this week and is preparing to be baptized with the goal of being a missionary too someday as he told us. And he taught me a great lesson. A lot of times, we know our own weaknesses, what will try our patience, our confidence, and most importantly our faith. But if we look towards the future and make the tough decisions now, the ones we know might come down the road, our beliefs and our goals will never fall. And to wrap it up I want to close with something my mother would occasionally tell me as a kid, "What Would Jesus Do?" Because the answer to both questions, "What would you do if?" and "What would Jesus do?" should usually be the same thing. Hope everyone is still balling out, stay grinding.
SALUD
Elder Moulton
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