Right now it's pretty nice weather here. A little cold but with a jacket it's nice. Today we have a zone activity planned in the soccer field of San Lorenzo and we will be cooking a bbq, I'm starvin like a marvin so that'll be good.
     Yesterday I had the opportunity to confirm the lady in church with the holy ghost! it was pretty awesome! We are finding people that are ready to hear the gospel and that are following through with their commitments. I like working with the people here in Monoblock. I will send a picture of a side of my area, it's small but full of people! [He didn't send the picture]
     This week I want to share about decisions. If you can picture with me a train in a switch yard and see all the tracks that are there but all lead to other parts of the world. This train is you and the tracks are all your decisions you can make. They all seem good from the start but it's impossible to see with the eye where each one leads to in the end. With one little move of 3 inches of a rail our track is changed and our course is different, For this we must choose wisely. There is a map to help us make such decisions. We must use this map to make decisions to guide us and keep us on the right track because further down the track there are more switches that we'll pass and we could get lost if we make one little wrong move. But if we use the map we will be able to arrive where we are trying to get to. This map is called the scriptures and the prophets, and personal revelation. Not just one but all 3. We must be diligent in following these guides to avoid decisions that will take us on another path in an instant, a path that may seem fun at first but the further and further we make it down the path we make other bad decisions and feel really lost and scared sometimes. Many don't realize that by small and simple means are great things brought to pass but I testify that by small and simple means great things are brought to pass. I, like all people, have taken the wrong track before but thanks to the Atonement of Jesus Christ I was able to be directed back to the right path. When we realize we've made a bad choice the best thing to do is correct it in the moment. It's easier to get on the right path if we're still not far from it, but the longer we wait and the farther we go the harder it gets to change and the longer it takes to get back on the path. if it weren't for Jesus Christ it would be impossible but he made it possible for everyone! Use his Atonement in your life to stay on the lighten path and the path that is right. Life is better like this. We can all experience his love as we take part of the Atonement. The mission is a place where I have experienced the power of his love and his forgiveness also. The joy is indescribable but real. Trust in your maps and remember that by small and simple means, great things are brought to pass!
Gotta leave now. I'm hungry. =D
Elder Wikstrom