Unprofitable Servants

Well we had some problemillas this weeks...haha 

C. wasn't able to be baptized for some personal problems and will have to wait about a month til she is eligible to be baptized again. ni modo. 

We are actually experiencing a lot of trials right now on all sides with our investigators which really is to be expected, we have a lot that are progressing and so of course they are all gonna have trials and God will test them to see if they will be faithful in trial. Everybody's just gotta calm it down, haha.

Me and my comp were talking the other day about a scripture in the Book of Mormon 

Mosiah 2: 21 I say unto you that if ye should serve him who has created you from the beginning, and is preserving you from day to day, by lending you breath, that ye may live and move and do according to your own will, and even supporting you from one moment to another—I say, if ye should serve him with all your whole souls yet ye would be unprofitable servants.

How true this scripture really is. We are nothing, if we would put 100% into serving Him we still are not going to be able to achieve anything without Him. 

But it isn't something to make us sad, it is actually something that helps us in our progression. If we can see how much we really do depend on the Lord, how essential He is in every move we make, then we will be Humble, we will be Obedient, we will Repent and when things don't turn out how WE wanted them to, if we really did do our best, than our effort as unprofitable servants will be made perfect in the Lord.

Elder Roberts

Who's on the Lord's side??

Good week. C. had her baptismal interview, and shes gonna be baptized Saturday. We also had the re-dedication of the Mexico City temple this week. Presidente Eyring dedicated the temple and he and Elder Holland talked about the importance of sacrifice and dedication. 

Elder Holland shared a story from the history of the church about the building of the Salt lake temple. The saints had lost 2 temples and had lost the land of 2 others in their journey westward, they had sacrificed literally everything to build temples in Kirkland, and Nauvoo. They had walked, and suffered, and bled, and died on the American prairie (not gonna lie I don't have any idea how to spell prairie) and at last got to a place in the middle of nowhere and their prophet immediately tells them to get to work building ANOTHER TEMPLE.... Elder Holland said that at that point many of the saints began to doubt and wonder if a temple was really that important, there were some saints that went so far as to challenge President Young and ask him "and are we gonna be able to finish this temple before they kick us out again?" To which Brigham Young answered "I don't know and I don't care. I don't care if the temple is completed, the thing that I worry about is if I am where the Lord wants me to be and am doing what He wants me to be doing. And I am sure that the Lord wants this temple built." 

'And that really is what matters. If we are where we should be and doing what we should be, the outcome really doesn't mean anything, We did our part and we have made our covenants and we can trust that the Lord will fulfill His promises in His time and in His way. 

Elder Roberts

Good missionary traits and Mexico City Temple redidication

Everything is looking like the last 3 months of my mission are going to be the best ones. 

1 my new companion, my lil son, is probably the best companion I have had in the mission. He is very obedient, he is very humble, he is funny but spiritual as well, and he knows why he is here. I am so grateful that God has given me the opportunity to train a new missionary for my last 2 transfers and that this Elder has hit the ground running. He is the only member in his family, and actually he come from a very difficult family situation, so he is obviously not here because mommy and daddy made him come, he is here because he wants to be. 

2 We have a lot of investigators who are progressing and the number grows every day, I have never seen so many sheaves ready for the harvest, I just hope I can reap the majority before its my time to call it a day. 

3 The C. Family is preparing to be sealed in the temple in one month. On Sunday the whole family come with us to visit our investigators for the whole day. It really makes me want to cry when I can see the family that I taught more than a year ago teach other people. 

Also the Mexico City temple will be rededicated this Sunday and all the members in Mexico will be watching via satellite the dedication. Its gonna be awesome!

Good week. 

Love 

Elder Roberts