Redouble!!!! (from November 5, 2012)

Hi there my good friends

 

  I'm sitting here in Peoria Lakeview branch in the Peoria Public library system and it's a sad place.... Libraries are an interesting place, people come to get knowledge and to raise themselves to a higher plane of thought and try to their best to become better people. I admire that and I wish that I could help all of them to see that this is a place of temporal things, now I'm not saying that the knowledge aquired here is no good, but that it is in comparrison dust and dirt to the value of what is found in the Book of Mormon. Chances are there is a copy of the Book of Mormon in here somewhere, I want to know how many times it has actually been lifted off the shelf. I'm looking around at what truth is available. Books on how to fix your house, the purpose of the cardiovascular system,  gardening, auto repairs, far east cooking and more. Even the books of how to lose weight, how to have a happier family, how to conquer the stresses of life, and best off how to find peace of mind in a changing world. If only they could find the Book of How to Gain happiness in life and Eternal lIfe in the world to come. I marvel at the desires of society. Most things must be an immediate satisfacation, or a temporary cure for something that never should have taken place. I'm so grateful for the knowledge that I have that the Gospel of Jesus Christ has both the ability to be happy in this life and have eternal joy in worlds to come. I'm grateful for the immediate satisfactions that the Holy Ghost brings and eternal and endless joys of the Atonement of Jesus Christ. I'm grateful for each week being able to take that sacred and renewing sacrament and feel myself begin to understand the Savior and get ready to go to work.

 

Elder Sauer and I had Brother Whitley  at church yesterday as well as Debra Owens. We have Debra praying for a baptismal date and NW Whitley set for December 8th and he's very excited for that. I'm so glad that we have been able to seen success come from our efforts in this area. I'm growing greater charity towards the people dispite to geers and taunts that come with missionary work.

I've learned that I need to be better every single day. I recently read in D&C 127:4 about redoubling our efforts, and that's exactly what we're doing here. Elder Suaer and I are exhaused at night and somehow want to do it all over again in the morning. We are planning better, we're working harder, we're being bolder, and we're relying more and more on the spirit.

 

Do to today's schedule we are teaching even on p-day and have to make this session a little shorter then what we would like. Sacrifice i guess is what you would call it.

 

I love yall and will be seeing you later and will let you know next email wether or not I"m staying or going.

 

God Bless yall  Elder Gonzalez