Every street that we walk, every door that we knock, and every person we talk to all have 2 things in common. Their Love of God, and their Love of Futbol. I have spent a lot of time over the last 2 months that I have been here in Argentina contemplating what it is that keeps motivates these people. What is the thing that they love the most in this life.
They are almost all Baptized Catholic and believe that God is our Father in Heaven. That Jesus is the Christ. And that through Faith in them we will be saved, but what I have come to find is that the majority of the people have forgotten that Faith has two parts. Both Faith and Works are the things that are going to save us.
Too often we get distracted by the "Futbols" of the world and that distracts us from the things that we need to be doing. I am not in any way saying that Futbol is a bad thing, but what I am saying is that in order to be the best Futbol player in the World, we cannot be of the world.
I find myself using this analogy in almost every lesson when we are teaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ because the first Principle of the Gospel is Faith. "If you have faith that you are going to be the greatest futbol player Argentina has ever seen, is that faith going to make you the greatest?" The answer is NO. That faith, if it is put into action, will then carry you into greatness. However, that requires of us just a few things. We have to always have the Goal in mind to achieve the best, or to inherit the Kingdom of God, and then we are going to be filled with the desire to work and to practice and to grow!
There are so many awesome and amazing blessings in this life that we have and should take advantage of because they are here to help us. But one thing we have to do as well is thank God for those things, and show him that we care and that we really want to acheive the Goal.
It has been an incredible learning experience here on the mission and I am so Glad for the opportunities that I have been given.
~Elder Hazlett
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