My Treasured Loved Ones,
Missionary work is so great!! Best. Life. EVER!!!!
Here is what I wrote to my Mission President this week:
"Dear President,
I hope that you and Sister Pace are doing well! Thank you for the inspired advice you gave me in our recent interview. It´s blessed me, and I´m already finding myself receiving more guidance, which is a tender mercy. As we discussed, I´ll keep this letter short and to-the-point.
I´m doing well, and I love being a missionary. Élder Sutton is an amazing companion and mentor. We are in Week 6 of the 12 Week Program. I´m trying my best to become a better servant to the Lord. We see miracles every day here in Vitoria.
Miracle of yesterday: we had been dropped by our appointments for the afternoon, so we prayed for guidance. Heavenly Father won´t let our plans fall out unless He wants us to be using His time differently. He gave us a lot of information about a way that He wants us to assist the growth and strengthening of the ward. It was marvelous. I know that He loves us, and He wants us to turn to Him for enlightenment, so that we can do what He wants us to do here in Vitoria.
A less-active member told us this quote from Élder Richard G. Scott: "To achieve what has never been achieved, you must do what has never been done." When Heavenly Father gives us ideas and promptings, He will give us strength to carry them out."
Here is what I learned from my scripture study last Thursday:
"I need to pray and read scriptures unto rejoicing, daily. Investigators and Members and all people can/will feel the Spirit of rejoicing in me if I can nurture it in me. The messages of the scriptures are more than cause enough to rejoice in gratitude toward God. He loves us and wants this sort of happiness for us--that´s why He´s given us the power of prayer and the gifts of the Spirit and the blessing of the scriptures. When we learn to take joy from these things, we will become better servants of our Savior, and the Spirit will "send the gleam [of the Holy Spirit and it´s "glad tidings of great joy"] across the wave". These people are my people, they´re my family, and they´re so precious, so significant, and so special. The joy that I need to continue developing from living the gospel needs to be bright enough to be obvious, for the "eager eyes [that] are watching, longing, for the lights along the shore".
I love you all so much! I pray for you every night, each of you, by name, at the end of my prayer. I have never prayed so long, so consistently, ever: I usually spend somewhere between 20 and 30 minutes on my knees before getting into bed. I make sure to spend a time praying for each of you, specifically, and listening, so that I can better know what to pray for for each of you. I know Heavenly Father answers prayers.
I also know that some of you answer e-mails. ;) If you´d like to send a short reply, you are now officially invited to do so. ;)
Know that, even though I don´t see you every day, I keep you in my heart. You are not forgotten.
I love you, so much. Don´t ever forget it, or worse, doubt it.
Simply,
Élder Pablo Zubeldia
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