Elder Matthew Montgomery : Dad Went To Get Milk (Week 18)

Monday, December 4, 2023 4:24pm

Hey everyone, how's it going? Hope you've all felt blessed and thankful this week!

So um, yeah, transfers happened. Unfortunately, my dear mission father has left me to be a zone leader in Necochea. Sad, I know, I will miss him, but whatever, the work of God stops for no man. I did receive a new companion though! His name's Elder Sykes, and he's great! He has an awesome drive to do the work and is AMAZING with the guitar! We're gonna work super hard this transfer and I'm excited for what comes next!

Elder Sykes and I did have a very cool experience yesterday. We had visited all the people we planned to that evening and a lot of them weren't there, so we had finished our schedule pretty early. We didn't want to go home just yet, so we stopped and said a prayer asking for guidance. We felt like we should just pick a direction and walk, we did so, and we were able to meet a few people on the street who were interested and wanted to meet with us again! It's just an awesome reminder that when we remember to ask God and put our trust in Him, He will provide for us!

I feel like I bring it up a lot, but I keep seeing my Español improving every day. It seems like a new word I've never heard before comes up every week! I feel super blessed with the ability I have to understand and speak, and I know I still do fault a lot when it comes to being fully fluent, but I think i can truly say I'm bilingual at this point. The gift of tongues is very real, everyone, I like didn't study a lot of Spanish before this sooooo lol.

We're still working, as usual, but not a lot has happened this week, so I'll move on to some TotS.

This week's talk is The Aaronic Priesthood and the Sacrament by Elder Dallin H. Oaks. Elder Oaks begins the talk by telling us about the origins of the Aaronic Priesthood and its purpose in the gospel, describing it as a preparatory priesthood, one that unlocks the keys of the ministering of angels, repentance, and baptism. This lets us know its importance, as it gives us access to the first steps on our covenants paths. President Oaks also mentions the importance and sacredness of the Sacrament, mentioning how it was the last act the Savior performed before his Atonement. He also shows us scriptural evidence of the Sacrament's link to the Gift of the Holy Ghost, a tool that we can not live without in these latter days. With all this sacredness and solemnity surrounding this Priesthood, holders of it should act accordingly, Elder Oaks tells us. They should always be respectful of these ordinances and never do or be something that could distract from the Spirit of them. This caused me to reflect a lot, thinking about my own time as a youth in the Priesthood, thinking about things that maybe I should have stopped or started doing to make the sacrament and other ordinances more important to me, rather than just seeing them as an event that had to be done quickly and effectively. So today, I'd like to invite all of you to try to find a way you can elevate your experience with the Aaronic Priesthood. We partake of the sacrament every week, and it's a great time to reflect and think about what we can be doing to be more respectful of this great blessing and responsibility we are given.

Well, I guess that's all I have for yall! This week went by really quickly and uneventfully, so I unfortunately don't have any pictures this time, but I'll make up for it next week!

Hope you all have a great week, go forward with faith!!

Elder Montgomery

Scripture this week: D&C 1:2

(I did grab some photos from his Google drive)

With the family Coria