Week Six: Be still and know that I am God

My friends! I realized that my last email failed to give a description of the missionary work here. The week before I arrived here, this sweet lady named Flor De Liz got baptized, as did her sister and granddaughter. And she has turned into a minimisionary. It feels like everyone we are teaching is either a neighbor of or related to Flor De Liz. Which is nice because it means most of the people we are teaching live clustered together. But the other side of the coin is that when we aren't teaching someone in that neighborhood, it feels so far away, because it usually is far away. (Not that Flor de Liz is lives next door or anything, just I recognize the way to her neighborhood) All that being said, we've had a pretty full week, but not without “Okay, so what do we do now?” moments. On an adjacent note, we, as we got yesterday, sometimes receive news of death and tragedy that create stills in our movie of life. In these sudden timestopping moments, the divine counsel The Saints received during their persecution in Missouri rings: “be still, and know that I am God”. President Eyring tells of a moment in His life, when he and his wife (in Idaho Falls) were physically separated from their children (in Rexburg), when the breaking of a dam caused massive flooding in Rexburg. Sister Eyring, like any good mother, begins to worry immensely for their children, while President Eyring is “able to put [his] mind at ease and fall asleep.” He continues “It wasn’t long thereafter that my sweet eternal companion woke me and said, “Hal, how can you sleep at a time like this?” These words then came clearly to my heart and mind. I said to my wife: “Kathy, whatever the outcome, all will be well because of the temple. We have made covenants with God” I add my humble testimony next to that of this Apostle, that in these moments of distress and lack of direction or momentum, in the various magnitudes in which they appear. From everyday challenges to ones that make their way into history books, we can be still, and know that God is our God. And for me, this knowledge comes from covenants, and that's why I'm happy to be helping others make these same covenants. Elder Pinkney All Will Be Well Because of Temple Covenants https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/2024/04/18eyring?lang=eng P.s. I didn't have these photos last week so I'm sending them now