Ripples

Hey guys!
All is well here in Gabriela! We are running around everywhere here in the sector trying to find the news [investigators that will accept baptismal invitation] that we are going to baptize next month. The thing is that we have a goal as a mission. 1469 news in one month! Thats pretty high! Our goal as a zone is 145. Its pretty ambicious, especially for a zone like ours, which is kind of tough. As a zone leader, it is an added pressure because you dont just answer for your dats, but the dats of the entire zone. Its a lot of pressure sometimes, but we just have to keep pushing forward and try to do the best we can. Last week we found 9 news, and hopefully all of them will soon have baptisimal dates this next week.
We taught one family Sunday night: Gustavo. We got into the house and started talking with the family. After a little while, we found out that both the mom and the dad are members, but they are super inactive. The mom thinks that she is Evangelica now. We taught the family and showed them the restauration video. They liked it, but didnt seem to change their views on much. The daughters, however, were pretty impressed. Carol and Nicole. They are the ripple.
Everyone is a drop of water. We act every second of every day. Each of those actions gets placed into the logs of history forever as an action that we have taken. This action can have various consequences, and we are in someway partialy responsible for those consequences. We sneeze and someone gets sick. We help someone take up some groceries and it makes their day better. Every action has this effect, a ripple, we could say, that travels in an out of the lives of those it affects. Nicole and Carol are a consequence of a ripple that their parents started. Now they can choose to act on it, or let it pass over them. In the end, its their choice. We just want them to understand the importance of this drop of water that is their lives so they step carefully, because every step is going to show.
I have learned a great deal on the mission. But one of the greatest lessons I have learned is that it continues on. Life is learning. Learn well and act accordingly and the effect we create will be a marker for others to follow. In the end, it is to matter. To make a difference because you have lived.
Thank you to everyone who has been praying for me and for those who havent as well. I love you guys a lot!
Con Amor,
Elder Westover