I feel progress

well I had a good week, the Lord has really been helping me to be who I am supposed to be, sometimes it is a big trial but I feel like the Lord is really helping me, this week I feel like I committed to be a little better, and when I took the Sacrament it was a lot cooler, I feel the truth that obedience has a lot to do with my desire, I guess that is what I am more happy about is my desire to be obedient has increased and I feel progress. I also was thinking about my testimony today and realized that I know the Church is true. I already knew that but today I don't know it just feels more solid, so yeah. well this week was good for us, we had a sort of sorry turn up in Church compared to last week but it was a peaceful Sunday despite all that and I see the Ward is progressing a lot over all.

nice to see how fun missionary work can be it is really rewarding

this was a good week thanks, sounds like you guys had a fun time.Well this was a good week for me, I could feel the Spirit a lot and I was strengthened a lot by reading my scriptures, I am glad i am here, things seem to be going really well. I really like my companion Elder B he is a really good missionary, he has taught me a lot already and helped a ton. It is nice to see how fun missionary work can be it is really rewarding, I dont remember when I imagined missionary work being this cool until now.

cool scripture that I found-Helaman 3 {25
27 Thus we may see that the Lord is merciful unto all who will, in the sincerity of their hearts, call upon his holy name.

love you guys talk to you later

Gospel knowledge to help us do better

Well I had another good week, I am really having a good time yall, I have a new companion now, his name is Elder B, he lives in Layton, wow so close. and so yeah he is cool, i am learning a lot from him. this week i learned some new things, I have been watching and trying to teach better, I realized how questions can be very effective some times I wonder why I don't just ask more things, that knowledge came a lot from Elder Bednar in the conference that we did just a couple weeks ago and from the example of my companion. It is really cool, I am sure Elder Bednar is an apostle from the things he taught us, he didn't mention much that was new he just made us feel good mostly and applied basic Gospel knowledge to help us do better on some specific things, as I was saying like, inspired questions. I am glad that he came, a recent convert also got to listed to one of his conferences when he was here and she really liked it and said it made her feel better in a difficult time, also we gave her a blessing yesterday, that was cool, It was interesting how a lot of times the things that help people most are repeats of things people know already or to reassure them of something, I know that the Priesthood is really, it is really cool and interesting. I love it when you  feel the Spirit. I am glad that sister took the faith to ask for a blessing. It was nice to know that God is conscious of what others are passing through, it makes me not worry so much. 

We had a lesson with a girl that seems pretty prepared to change in her life, she says that she has seen the example of her Mother in law and says that her Mother in law is basically perfect, she just happens to be a member so we are blessed that we found her. I think that this will be a good change. 

one soul to Christ how great shall be your joy

we had a great week I found a scripture that I liked it talked about mysteries, I like how even those with a really big understanding need faith Alma 40:3 also Marcia got to go to the temple I remember that I was just really happy when I heard that she went, it is really really cool to see someone else learning the Gospel, so that is a big part of my time here, just remembering how cool that was, serious, helped me have a testimony much more deep of that verse in Doctrine and Covenants that talks about bringing one soul to Christ how great shall be your joy love you guys
Doctrine and Covenants 18:15

15 And if it so be that you should labor all your days in crying repentance unto this people, and bring, save it be one soul unto me, how great shall be your joy with him in the kingdom of my Father!

16 And now, if your joy will be great with one soul that you have brought unto me into the kingdom of my Father, how great will be your joy if you should bring many souls unto me!

the judgment will probably be us choosing to leave God´s presence

so this was a buena semana I learned a lot of stuff this week, mostly about faith though. faith is such an interesting principle. I think I grew in a faith a tiny bit. I remember a lesson we gave with a less active member, me and Elder G tried pretty hard to do what Elder Bednar told us to do, and by the end we figured out she did not have very many desires to find out if the Book of Mormon was actually true by faith. it makes me think, wow if all these people could progress more by simply having more faith than how important is it that we have faith as well and I mean the get your feet wet sort of fe that Elder Bednar was talking about. really having doubts can darken the guidance we have from the Spirit and the way to teach effectively is with the Spirit. I had a cool experience with faith in the Book of Mormon yesterday too, I read a scripture and I was sort of down for some reason and I had the thought, this is not even helping, the Book should be helping me more, then I had a feeling to look back a few verses, then came a great, small verse that resolved my entire problem basically, I didnt even know why I was feeling down, i couldnt explain it then after reading that scripture it not only showed me a wise counsel but it gave me that opportunity to exercise more faith and I started to feel animado again. It is amazing how the Lord works through small means like words on a page or the way we feel to teach us of the most important things, really suprizes me sometimes how merciful the Lord really is. so yeah that was a highlight of the week for sure.

really yeah I had that question a while back it sure made me think a lot. that is interesting that stuff about Moses thanks for sharing that I remember when that gave me a doubt a long time ago but it makes sense still, also before I read I was thinking about what you said`` Heavenly Father really directs us to think that we can be great and i was thinking about that just a minute ago. so yeah I also I was thinking about that Moses wanted to give up, after I read it, I think that is really interesting but we can see so easily now that the Lord did help him. something cool this week that I heard was from a conference I got to listen to with Elder Bednar, he said living the Gospel is not hard, it is easy. Not living the Gospel is hard. he also said that if living the Gospel is like a chore that is not right. I really liked that he even started talking about how when we get judged after we die, the judgment will probably be us choosing to leave God´s presence rather than Him saying we didnt do good enough. he mentioned how if you cant look into the bishops eyes it will probably be a similar thing. so the way that we know if we are ready is basically if we know the Gospel is making us happy. it makes me wonder a little bit about Moses, how he wanted to give up at some time, I am sure that he was going through some trail right, or also Christ when He was about to perform the Atonement, how he asked the Lord if the bitter cup could be passed from Him, it wasnt. I wonder why things like that have to happen when they happen to me, like why do I have to do this if it wont help me and then I just have to think of how it is always better that way. there really has to be hard things that we do, we have to overcome things, that is a good perspective that we have opposition in all things and that to be happy we have to know saddness. to me that was a true statement that he said. 

also he said that we are weird and backed it up by saying that the Lord`s people are a peculiar people. I also agree with that and he called people that dont keep the commandments stupid it was pretty funny.

faith is really really important

Re: Letter from mom

nate seffker

 

 

2/22/16

 

To: harry and Patti seffker

I cant wait till I can eat blackberries with Emmi, awesome, shout out to Jared Seffker congrados on dat scolrship, so did yall get to putting in those mission paps yet congratulations out there to Johnny Seffker for that Scout award you probably just got. My companion told me a story yesterday about his pinewood derby, he said when he got the car to make his parents just took it, they were mechanical engineers so they just did gave him the block of wood and told him he could do what ever he wanted as long as he didnt mess with the axel area and they made different wheels that worked better and looked like the ones they give you and they manufactured some sort of nail thing and but graphite on it and stuff for the wheels, it was funny because he said he didnt even want them to do that and after they did the contest he won by a long shot, it wasnt even funny and he got mad because he felt like he didnt even do anything, i thought that was pretty was pretty funny because he could have just left it as a block and won ha ha. My companion is pretty funny, he is from New York. 

so you wanted me to share some experiences missionary work, well something that I thought that was cool about this week was how Marcia the girl who got baptized told us how she felt good after her baptism, like she said that the day of her confirmation she had a really strong feeling right after she got confirmed, that was different in her own words she said she couldnt describe it but it was different and so that made me think a little bit, wow she is feeling the same Spirit that we all feel too, she also said this week that the Gospel, the classes in Church and what she has learned has made her feel like the spiritual hunger she had is gone, it was pretty interesting to hear that, sort of made me being here really worth it. i feel like the simple fact that I was here just to be here is what allowed her to experience the Gospel, it was never really me or my companion that helped her, it was the Gospel, that is what makes me happy. I remember the way we found her was really simple, my companion and I were walking down the road and we passed an older looking lady, and my companion backed up a bit and just started talking to her, amazingly she was a member that nobody knew basically and she invited us to come. we came and the first few times it seemed like they were never in their house. But finally the day we did come Marcia was there and she just wanted to hear about the Gospel and she wanted to learn more,  she always kept her commitments, you could tell she had good desires. I remember when we taught about temples she must have thought a lot about it already, i think her Mom must have explained some stuff because she told us she had a goal to become a temple worker.  I think that all this stuff happened for a simple act of faith my my old companion, he had faith that the contact he did would probably help someone or be worth it, later he told me that he contacted her because he felt like he should. but yeah great things happen when you have some faith. I have learned that having faith has helped me hear the Spirit a lot. So the idea faith is really really important, if you ever get confused about a part of the Gospel you should definetly try to have more faith, it will help you a ton. 

love you guys 

without faith no man pleaseth God

este semana fue muy interesante, tuvimos un bautismo, fue muy especial y pienso que la persona le gusto mucho. creo que ella sentio bien al llegar a ser miembro pero había algunos desafíos, una cosa que ella nos dijo es que alguna horas antes de bautizarse ella dijo a uno de sus amigos que iba ser bautizado pero su amigo no le gusto y empezó a decir le maca-nadas y se picho pero ella dijo que después nosotros le llamamos justo cuando termino hablando con esa persona y sentio mejor, recibimos muchas otras bendiciones para que el bautismo fue exitoso. Yo sè que Dios nos ayuda en momentos difíciles, estaba leyendo en las escrituras de eso hoy, con el pueblo de Alma en como Mosiah 24, ellos tenían mucha fe y paciencia, fueron un buen ejemplo en confiar en Dios y casi inmediatamente el Señor les bendijo. Creo que es el mismo muchas veces con nosotros, pero el Señor quiere enseñar la fe y paciencia y necesitamos experiencias como el hizo con el pueblo de Limhi. No todos tienen esa fe como Alma y su pueblo y por eso digo que no todos han visto milagros, o han reconocido milagros, estaba mirando una escritura que marque un tiempo atrás y tiene que ver mucho con este tema en DyC 63,11Sí, las señales vienen por la fe para producir obras poderosas, porque sin fe ningún hombre agrada a Dios; y con el que Dios está enojado, no está bien complacido; por tanto, a éstos no muestra señales, sino en ira para su condenación.

This week was very interesting, we had a baptism was very special person and I think she likes me a lot. I think she sentio well to become a member but there were some challenges, one thing she told us is that some hours before baptism she told one of his friends was going to be baptized but your friend does not like me and began to tell you maca-nothings and picho but she said that after we call just when I finish talking to that person and better sentio, we received many other blessings that baptism was successful. I know that God helps us in difficult times, I was reading in the writings of that today, with the people of Alma and Mosiah 24, they had a lot of faith and patience, were a good example of trust in God and almost immediately the Lord will blessed. I think it's often the same with us, but the Lord wants to teach faith and patience and we need experiences as he did with the people of Limhi. Not everyone has such faith as Alma and his people and so I say that all miracles have not seen or recognized miracles, was looking at a script that mark a while back and has much to do with this issue in D & C 63,11Sí, the signs come by faith mighty works, for without faith no man pleaseth God; and with whom God is angry he is not well pleased; therefore, they no signs, only in wrath unto their condemnation. Well I had a good week yall, i am sure translating this will come out with some errors, but it was a good week I feel like the Lord has prepared me to be where I am now, and that He is really merciful, that is actually something that I was reading today that I thought was cool, I saw what you call a lot of tender mercies this week as well. I have to go soon so love you guys I`ll talk to you all later.