“Faith to TRY vs faith to DO!” Kenny’s week 53

Hey howdy ho I'm still going strong! No nonsense-- let's get rolling


- Amazing splits with Elder Nicolás, he is one of the Zone Leaders here in Zona Norte (the northern Zone in Rosario), we ended up finding this one family inactive in the church, and scheduled one of the daughters in the family on baptismal date. It was crazy since we were just walking by and the Dad of the Family was outside and invited us to pass by, so we got to know them through that. So cool how God works! 

- We were working in the office like normal, when all the sudden... The power cuts out. Were all like "Uhm, that's weird but it should come back on in a bit..." Five second go by. Then we start to hear, and I kid you not, explosiones inside the walls of the office. Long story short, someone was trying to mess with the powerlines outside the building (as in trying to steal the cables) and that caused some overloading and surge of power in random intervals. Then the socket in our room exploded and sounded like a gunshot haha - it was freaky as heck, but it all got sorted out and were ready for the onslaught that will be Transfers this weekend. 

- Lost Internet and therefore couldn't do anything for a good day. This time it was Elder Rigby's time to die on the floor haha

A fun thing I've been learning in these last few weeks is the difference between the faith to TRY and the faith to DO. We relate it scripturally here, as in the faith to thrust in the sickle or the faith to reap. "La fe para meter la hoz, o la fe para cosechar." Across all walks of life, what really makes the difference in our discipleship in Christ is having an unbreakable faith in Him. There are three key point in having the faith to reap:

1. Faith in Christ's Atonement, not our own strength
2. Align our will with that of God
3. Put in the work and make it happen

I invite everyone who reads this to really think about what that means for you personally, and think about your next step towards having the faith to DO, not just to try 😁

That's it, peace out
Élder Chalk 

Pictures: Tiza means Chalk (my nametag); Cool and weird vending machine we saw in a mall; Epic power plant looking thing... There wasn't anyone around so we had time to grab a good picture haha









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