Change!!

I love my missoin and am changing so so much! i love being a leader and serving the people and other missionarys! I have been frusterated with my self latly because i have been trying to be a better missionary and i havent seen the changes that i have wanted. but i realized that change isnt something instantanious rather something progresive. its like climbing a mountain. we can get to the top in an instant. and if we get frusterated with our selfs for not being able to do it, it wont help us and we never will get there. we need to start the JOURNEY step by step, paso por paso. having patience every step of the way! i now know that i will take steps backward but i cant get frusterated no one is perfect. the lord doesnt expect instant  perfection but he does expect constant improvment! and he is so proud of every step that we take!! we can not forget that! with his help it is possible to reach our goals. like climbing a tall mountain we will all need oxygen at some point. we CANNOT do it alone. nor do we have to! 

i know this is the gosple of jesus christ and i know how incrdibly blessed i am to be in it and to have been born in it!! that you for every single one of you for all you did for me! i wouldnt be who i am if not for every one that cares about me enough to read this! thank you! have a fantastic week!!

Love Elder Groen

Yea!!!

so this week we had the wounderful opertunity to go to the offices of the missoin and listen to elder teixeira! He is in the first quarm of the seventy and server as mission president in the sao pablo south mission in 2005ish! he talked to us about how we need to not clasical condition our selfs to think that because of an area or mission we cant teach alot or baptise alot... he also told us about how we just need to talk to absultly every one we can!! and invite every one to church!! 

Im doing great and am changing my life!! i used to think that i can do it with just a decission but i now know that that isnt the case it will take time and patience but with the lord i can do it!! 

I love you all!! have a great week!! 

Love, Elder Groen

Good Week!!

So last week i was kinda down for a lack of success that i was seeing... I felt like i was working good and that i wasnt getting the blessings that are promised. but as i went through this week i realized why!!  
Ether 12:12

 12 For if there be no faith among the children of men God can do no miracle among them; wherefore, he showed not himself until after their faith.

My faith was being tested to see if i would keep doing what i knew i had to!! and i did so we saw the miricles!! 

Miricle #1

Sister Galeano, her family has reciently reactivated and she was being kind of stuborn and would not come back!! after working and working! she came!!!!!!!!

Family Cortez! came after 9 weeks of not coming and they enjoyed and are going to come next week!!

Family Medina!!!!!!!! CAME!!!!! they are the family i talked about last week!! and after 12 years and alot of missionarys the finally came!! i think i felt a fraction of what god feels when we make the right deciscions!!

Gladis!! gladis is a les active who hasnt been in like 6 years! and she came back!!

Milagros!!! the daughter of gladis who never got baptised! came to church and accepted a baptismal date for the 3rd of october!!! she is reading the book of mormon and marking it!! and she is going to start going to seminary this tuesday!! and she is going to go to a stake dance that they are going to have!! 

And many more!! 

Love, Elder Groen

Week Tranquillo!!

So there was really nothing to intersting to report this week!! it was very very calm just being a missionary!! so i apoligze for the little letter... i had to travle to ramos mejia today and that is an hour and a half there and and hour and a half back plus the choir practice that we had there!! so i dont have that much time... so just know that i am very good!! and that marcos paz is good!! 

Love, Elder Groen!!

Quick Story! We have be working with a less active family that were baptized in the year 1981 more or less and they have been inactive for about 10 years i think... but wait it gets better!!! one of my goodfriends, presten hymas, his dad, Scott Hymas, baptised this family when he was a young missionary serving in the same area that i am!! The familys last name is medina. the missionarys have been working with them for a good while now and they havent seen much success... when i got here i had a really deep desire to help them!! So we have been passing by to see them and teach them. We had a lesson with them that to me and my companion seemed like the other lessons we had had. Ending with an invitation to come to church! and them saying "yea we'll have to see... i dont think so..." but after the lesson both my compaion and i felt like they were starting to make progress!! I was so happy!! And thats when the miricles started to happen!! they then shortly after accepted the home teachers in their house and we talking with them for 4 hours!! and then last night they called the bishop telling him they wanted interviews!! I got so happy when i heard that and I think i got a little bit of a taste of what god feels for us when we do whats right!! cool things!! 

Elder Groen