Elder Traveller

Hola my dear family and friends,

This week has been crazy, crazy. Full of so many ups and downs. I want to share another amazing experience I had with you all...

So this week I have been struggling so bad with allowing my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ to take on my sins, doubts, thoughts, worries, anxieties, everything.

What the heck, not this week only but my whole life I have struggled to do this!

It has been a real challenge and trial for me.

So last night we were talking with a family about faith and how it is a seed that must be planted in your heart so that it can grow. We read in Alma together, when he is talking about this, and the whole time I felt the spirit just pounding me to talk about my struggles with faith and how I have to pray for faith everyday! SO, I tried in my crappy Spanish to talk about it, and then the lady we were teaching started talking to me in English and I was soooo happy! So I expressed to her that I doubt a lot and it is really hard for me to have this kind of faith in my Savior and His Atonement, but that I pray for it every day. She said...WOW, I really needed to hear that. The entire time that I have been working with the missionaries I have wondered how they know so much and I know so little, it is nice to know you struggle too. She said that no other missionary had ever shared their struggles with her and it just felt so much more real when I did. AMAZING!! I attribute this experience to the spirit...and definitely not myself!! In the Lord's strength, I am strong.

So, I would encourage all of you this week to get REAL with people, life becomes so much better when we can really share how we feel without worry of judgement. And little do we usually know how much it helps everyone else!

Love you all, have a great week!

Elder Traveller

In a letter to his parents, Tyler shared the following.

"The people are awesome! Sara and Jose are getting baptized this week, and we baptized 5 people last week. I had the opportunity to baptize one of them. When I pulled him up out of the water, I just felt happy and peace."