Interesting week and changes(transfers)

So this week was changes everyone and the news is finally in! We are staying the same here in good ol culmena and that's great with me. We have found a bunch of people and we need to help them to see how they can progress for themselves. It has been really interesting learning how to teach here in the mission. All my life I have thought its been about giving the information to your audience in a way that they can understand. However I have learned that to really teach some one is to allow them to learn for themselves and merely act as a guide.

So this week in my study I have continued to read the Book of Mormon and also been studying repentance. I want to ask you what is one thing that you can give to god? Money? Time? Anything that He hasn't given you? The one thing that you have to give to him is YOUR will. That is the one truly unique thing that you can give to give.

“Perhaps the greatest discovery of my life, without question the greatest commitment, came when finally I had the confidence in God that I would loan or yield my agency to him— without compulsion or pressure, without any duress, as a single individual alone, by myself, no counterfeiting, nothing expected other than the privilege. In a sense, speaking figuratively, to take one’s agency, that precious gift which the scriptures make plain is essential to life itself, and say, ‘I will do as you direct,’ is afterward to learn that in so doing you possess it all the more”

The blessing that you receive from giving your all to our heavenly father out weighs the price beyond what we can imagine. I know that you will find the lord the more that you lose yourself the happiest times in my life have been when I have lost myself in the service of other people.

I know that some of you may think that you are to far from god to receive His love and help. I want to testify to you that this is a lie one of the greatest that Satan applies to us. We are never to far or to hidden or wicked to not receive the love of God. It may be through someone else it may be in your personal search but you will find Him!

I want to ask you how you could be an angel to someone this week?

https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2008/10/the-ministry-of-angels?lang=eng

I love you all and I want to tell you that God loves you. We all have hard weeks or hard days but there is one thing that doesn't change and that is Gods love for you. Thank you all for your birthday wishes!!

Love Elder Packham

Pictures:
When the iron decided to eat my pants..
My zone.. Its a little blurry sorry.

Jacob!

So this week I´ve been study jacob this book is so great! Also I´ve been thinking about my little bro jake and his birthday and Alex and his birthday! I want to send a shout out to them and wishing that there birthday is a great one! I have had a really interesting week this week and have been learning a lot about what is a real missionary and how we can really serve.
So I want to give you a little background about who Jacob is in the Book of Mormon and why I like him so much. Jacob is the younger brother of Nephi and he was born into a family that literally was always on the move. He had to endure many things in his life and still had an unshakeable faith. He founded his faith in christ and the scriptures. In this life there is so much knowledge and things that we can choose to learn but are we looking to learn the things that will really edify us and help us grow closer to our Father in Heaven?

In Jacob he writes as a missionary preaching to the people to help them accept the gospel. I want to invite you all to reread Jacob chapter 5 and think about what type of tree you are and why? Then I want to invite you to begin the process of nurturing your tree in a way so that you can bring forth good fruit.

The scripture I want to leave with you all this week is a really long one so you should spend a lot of time reading it and ponder your own personal applications.

Jacob  6:12
O be wise; what can I say more?

Okay so it isn't that long but it is super profound and if you ponder on it you will find answers to your questions.

This week we had the amazing opportunity to go to the temple open house here in mexico city with the ward and our investigators. We were a little nervous but in the end we had 7 investigators and 4 of these were brought by the ward! I want to tell you that the power of members really makes all the difference all the investigators that we have right now were thanks to members. Share your testimony with everyone! It doesn't matter how much you know share it with your heart and the spirit will testify to them of the truthfulness. We can not be closet Mormons we must stand strong and have firm roots in the word of god.

The first two fotos my companion and I at the temple
Second two my cover for PMG
Final 2 a bookmark I made read the scriptures and qoute if you need motivation

Love,
Elder Packham

Who Are We

So this week I heard something that almost broke my heart.

We were talking to the Jehovah Witness and he was sharing his point of view on who he believes he is in relation to god. He said that he is nothing to God merely dust that He created and in order to give this creation a purpose He sacrificed His son. I was shocked and heart broken and as much as we testified of who we are and our part in the plan of our heavenly father he would not accept that he was more than nothing.

I want to bear to you all the most powerful witness that I can through this computer that I know who I am. I am a son of a loving heavenly father and thanks to that love he sent his son to die so that I might return to live with him. I know that because of that sacrifice I have the power to change every day and that I matter and am never alone. I know that he has a plan for me that I was with him before I came to this world and that I will be with him after I leave this world if I am obedient to that few things that he asks of me in return.

I was reading a book about the life of Joseph Smith (the Prophet of the Restoration) and he said that as we become ready to come to him (Christ) we learn that he is ready to come to us. And if we don't understand the nature of God that we wont be able to understand ourselves. As I bore my testimony to this man about who is he is to God I learned about how much I mean to the Lord. The scripture that I want to invite you all to study because it has made such a huge impact in my teaching this week and this month as we talk about the marvelous plan that God has for us is John 17:3 If you understand this scripture the views that you have will change. It doesn't matter if you are a member or not as we begin to understand these things we change. Another quote from Joseph Smith; We begin to change as our perspective changes.

Isaiah 43:3-7 As well is great study for what we mean to God.

This week we were able to see one miracle that was really interesting after a day where everything seemed to be against us we went on exchanges with some youth in our ward and ended up teaching some really spiritually packed lessons. I learned that we need to have our faith in god and trust that he will help things work out in there own time.

This week we got some sad news our investigator that we were hoping might be our next baptism told us that her parents said that if she gets baptized they wont have a daughter. She really needs a lot of prayers this week.

Share with me what you have learned and how you have applied it in your week love you!!!

Elder Packham