Week 90 Ya: Step #5 Endure To The End

Buen dia mi gente que lo que

Today is my 90th Monday as a missionary. How crazy is that? Time flies when you're serving the Lord.

Cool miracle this week. We were knocking doors, basically no one was answering and none of them were latino. Triste. Then we went to a lesson where our friend dropped us. Even more triste. As we're walking back to the car, we get a notification on our phones. Someone texted us and asked us if they could come to church. Could you come to church? Please and thank you. So we set up a church tour on Saturday and they came to church on sunday. Liliana and Alex from Columbia. God is so good!

BTW my friend Morgan got baptized on saturday in another ward! So hyped for him

Spiritual thought:
The last step in the doctrine of Christ is enduring to the end. Now that doesn't mean griting your teeth and holding on until you die lol. It means giving it your all until the end. Oftentimes this is hard for us. We get tired or bored or lazy. But the true mark of a life-long disciple of Jesus Christ is one who keeps going, who does not stop near the end or close to the end but THROUGH the end. I invite everyone to consider how they can better endure!

2 Nephi 31:16

And now, my beloved brethren, I know by this that unless a man shall endure to the end, in following the example of the Son of the living God, he cannot be saved.

Elder Curtis


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