Elder Pilling in Antigua

  Hey everyone!! This week was a pretty awesome week and I think it's only going to get better.... because we are both new, we have been using our map and knocking the doors of all of the members. By doing this we were able to find a few inactive members!! And they are willing to have us help them! I'll talk about one of them in a second. We also got to know the majority of members and learn about the ward which is nice.  So one of the inactives is Ailin Lopez. She hasn't gone to church in 8 months for problems with her husband. We visited her on Saturday and shared a message and on Sunday she came to church!! It was awesome.  On Tuesday we were walking off the boat from a zone meeting and a guy comes up and talks to us. He tells us like 20 years ago he talked with missionaries. So we visited him a few times and are really hoping that he can recognize the truth in our message.  This week I read a lot of good scriptures. One of which was in 2 Nephi 2 verse 11. Sorry i...

What is up!!  This week was pretty solid!! I did divions twice and the 2nd one I was in a trio!  So on Tuesday I stayed in my area and had Elder Jindra come for divisions. It was a super good time and we had an awesome day! Then on Thursday I was in a trio which was actually super fun for the day!! On Saturday we had a ward Christmas party and it was so fun! I was even apart of a musical chairs haha.  This week wasn't too successful with the people we are teaching unfortunately but nonetheless it was a solid week!! Here is a good scripture:  Alma 23:7 "they did lay down the weapons of their rebellion, that they did not fight against God any more." I like that in this story they buried their weapons of war, or as said here, the weapons of rebellion. Even tho they buried weapons of war, it says they didn't fight against God anymore. No they they didn't fight against their enemies. But that they didn't fight against God. How are we fighting against God? How can w...

  Hey everyone!!   So this week we had transfers and I got moved to a super cool area called San Lucas Toliman. It's on the famous Lake Atitlan and surrounded by volcanoes. It is soooo pretty here!! I don't have a ton of pictures but I will take more this week don't worry. My companion is Elder Perez from Mexico and I am starting his training!!! I'm so excited and there's tons of work to do here.  The missionaries before us really didn't leave us anything to work with so we are starting from 0... but with a little bit of hard work and some time we will see miracles!!  This week in my studies I came across a verse from Doctrine and Covenants section 50:44 "44 Wherefore, I am in your midst, and I am the good shepherd, and the stone of Israel. He that buildeth upon this rock shall never fall." I love that it has two different names of Christ and that it gives us a promise. If we build upon his rock, we will never fall!!  Such a big blessing.  Happy new ye...