hey all you people! i have some really sad news for the lot of you...I AM GOING TO LEAVE LOS CASTAÑOS. 😭 i am just as distraught as you, but my time is up over here in the ward. i was here for a total of 6 months of my mission...thats literally a quarter of my entire two years of service here. i wanted to share with you guys one of the things that i learned while i have been out here in this ward! kind of a personal revelation more than anything. faith brings miracles, but only through gods will! let me explain. in ether 12:12, it says that we need to have the right amount of faith in order for god to bless us with the things that we want. if we dont have faith, then why the heck would god bless us? we have to show god that through are works and actions, that he can bless us with the things that we want. now, the thing that i realized while being here is that it only depends on his will. A LOT OF PEOPLE FORGET ABOUT THIS VERY KEY CONCEPT. they think that if they have the faith sufficient, they can get whatever they want. the world would be in chaos if that point were correct; people winning the lottery and getting out of their debts left and right, it would just be a wreck. god ultimately chooses what goes down in this life for us, and we cant change what he has established for us! we cant always get what we want because god knows what is going to make us happy in this life. he gave us this plan to follow and he allows us to fall flat on our faces so we can learn. sometimes we have to go through the death of a loved one or sometimes we have to go through the pain and the sorrow of rejection or depression. the thing that we can use to give us this comfort here in this life is the atonement of christ. ultimately, he suffered for all the sins of the world, but also for all the temptations that we suffer from, or the awful feelings that bombard our minds. i can testify to you guys that always keeping a firm faith will bless your life! allow yourself to confide in god, and know that he is the one that is in control of what is going to happen here!! this next email, i am going to be in a new zone! we will see what happens here soon! love all of you to the moon and back! EKW we climbed a mountain again this p day and we were above the clouds! edgy pic cheezin cuz it's not hot down here anymore
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Elder Karson Wattles
Chile Santiago South Mission apartado postal No. 544 San Bernardo, Chile Archives
May 2019
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