02-15-10

Happy Valentine´s Day yesterday! Hope you all had a great day.

This week went by quick, and Wednesday I met my new companion, Elder Salguera. He is really cool and we get along great. He is from Nicaragua, and he really works hard.

One thing that I have really realized this week is that it's always great to seek improvement, but not perfection. The thing is is that honestly a lot of times before I wanted to be perfect, and I was picking and thinking about everything that I wanted to change and improve. But that's not the way to do it. We can never become perfect in this life at anything. And so I am really learning to seek improvement in things, but not to stress myself out when I make mistakes.

Another thing I have realized is that how we need to focus on others if we truly want to be happy. Always thinking about yourself really ends up bringing you down. What I am saying is that Jesus Christ never once put himself before other people. He was always serving others. As He was completing the Atonement, He thought of every single one of us, and he suffered individually for every single one of us. I am learning that as we focus our thoughts more on others, we are happier. I was thinking too much about how I wanted to improve, and not thinking enough about the people I'm serving. I am starting to study every day for at least half of my study time for the people we are teaching, and that's helping me be much happier.

This week we will have the baptism of Fernando. He is eight years old and so amazing. His mom is not an active member of the church, and we are working with her too. She came to church this week with him. Her name is Marcela. Please keep her in your prayers. Fernando is such a good kid and he's funny too. He remembers everything that we teach him, which is nice because many adults can´t do that. He is so happy and doing great.