Week 28 - Help thou my unbelief

Okay so this week has been super awesome!! Nothing special really happened it is just super awesome being a missionary!! We have really been focussing on talking to everyone. President told us that we really don't know who the Lord has prepared so we have to talk to everyone. In this past week I have probably met at least 70 people. We met this one guy and it was super awesome because by the end of the lesson he told us that he knew we were sanctified by Christ and because of that he wanted us to give him a blessing even though he usually doesn't ask people to pray for him. His hip had been bothering him for a while and it has been giving him some trouble when he tries to sleep. So we gave him a blessing, and when we came back he told us that all that pain was gone, so now we wanted us to "fix" some other problems he had. I thought that was kinda funny.

Other than that not a ton happened this week. It is crazy how much opposition we are seeing. As I explained in our skype call, we have really upped our goals for this month. In a meeting with the leaders of the mission President asked them a question, he asked, "do yall think Satan is going to be happy at our intensified efforts?" He warned us that we will be seeing a lot more opposition. And he was right. We have been working with and preparing so many people but every single one of them have problems that come up and it is so frustrating but it's okay because I know opposition is necessary and can actually be a good thing. It is just a lot harder to work with faith knowing that things are going to go wrong.

But that leads me into one of my favorite bible stories that is only like 3 verses long. In mark 9 we find an instance of a man who has a son who is suffering from some illness. Christ asks the man if he can believe, because all things are possible to those that believe. Now from everything I have read I could go off on a tangent about the differences between faith and belief but I will save that for another time. The man responds with a simple "Lord, I believe." and then realizing who he is talking to and sincerely wanting to believe in the power of the Son of God he adds, "help thou mine unbelief." That is one of my favorite pleas in all of the scriptures because it applies to me so directly.

I do know that through the Lord all things are possible. But I also know that the Lord can work those wonders through me if I believe it is possible. And the big goals and things in my life that I really want to believe are possible, like the Lord actually working miracles through my hands, I can, and have, plead with the Lord many times that same phrase, "Help thou mine unbelief." It has really changed my view as a missionary, but also as a person. I'm not sure if any of that made any sense but yeah!

This is the last week of the transfer so next week I will know if I am staying or leaving Lotes y Servicios. I am excited for whatever challenges lay ahead!

Have an amazing week!!

Elder Robertson