It was another good week out here.
Saturday, President Treviño´s brother, an area seventy, came out to have a mini zone conference with us and it was awesome. He had a bunch of super funny jokes and roasts and then he started talking about the importance of exact obedience and that´s when it got spiritual. Doctrine and Covenants 82:10 says that when we are obedient, the Lord is bound to bless us no matter what. But one thing Élder Treviño said that stuck with me was that "if you ALMOST obeyed a certain commandment, you ALMOST got the blessing that corresponds with it." So if you´re gonna be good, you might as well go all the way and try to be exactly obedient. This is especially true in missionary work. Sometimes when you´ve been out for a while, you start to want to get into a comfort zone, maybe with a little complacency and a few bad habits. But the two years you dedicate to serving the Lord really is a short amount of time, and you gotta keep pushing yourself to make the most of it. Also, as I think of it, our life here on earth is an incredibly short amount of time as well if we look at it from an eternal perspective, but it plays such an important role in what happens later. More than anything, I know that God blesses as tremendously for our obedience, more than we could know or even imagine in this life and in the life to come. We will ALWAYS find more happiness in being more obedient and "staying on the covenant path" like the prophet has invited us to do.
Normally, the secretarties of the mission have a reputation of not working much in their area and ´dying´ or ´frying´ in the office, and although I do have quite a bit of work to do in the office, my companion Elder Bonilla and I have been making a strong effort to work in our area and it feels good. I love teaching. I love seeing the progress in my ability to teach and help people understand the Gospel. We´ve been having a difficulty of helping people to accept a baptismal date and attend church, but I know if we keep working and being obedient, the blessings will come.
A couple of mormon messages I saw recently; one about a man that goes to chop wood and gets his truck stuck in the snow and another called The Music of the Gopel. I suggest you all to watch them and think about how our trials actually bless us and how we can learn to hear the music of the gospel. That one of the most important things I´ve been learning on the mission, is to learn why we do the things we do and not just learn to do them.
Anyway, have a great week! Love you all.
Love,
Élder Tucker
