Oii tudo mundo!! Tudo jóia?? Happy Halloween!! I hope yalls weeks have been awesome!! I love and miss you all and can’t wait to dive into this week!!
To start off my highlight this week was a dinner we had with this super amazing family!! They are inactive, but have really great testimonies!! My favorite part was just sharing a simple message at the end and the spirit that was there!! I could see that they felt the spirit strongly as well and how it softened their hearts!! They loved it so much that they want to feed us every week!! It was so awesome!!
This week my companion had to get his teeth fixed at the dentist. And we were there for 4 hours HAHAHA from 2pm to 6pm so basically our whole day haha. Let’s just say I read and listened to a ton of conference talks and scriptures HAHA!! So that was an adventure this week haha.
My spiritual thought this week is something I’ve been studying all week!! I’ve taken charge of making a list of my favorite titles of Christ!! I was listening to the talk by Jonathan S. Schmitt and took his invitation to start my own list!! The first one I chose was the ‘Son of Man’ and a couple things stood out to me!! First, there’s the ‘Son of Man’ and the ‘Son of man’ one with an upper case M and a lower case m. The one with the upper case M refers to our Heavenly Father or another title for Him is ‘Man of Holiness’. The lower case m is referring to the human nature of Christ because he himself was born of mortal man. This to me stood out particularly because it distinguishes two totally different characteristics of Christ!! Christ had to be born of mortal man to fulfill his divine purpose. To perform the greatest sacrifice for all mankind. He needed to feel every heartache, pain, trial, and burden that anyone has felt and ever will feel. I also found a few attributes that associate with this title in almost all the scriptures that this title is mentioned!! Patience, Humility, and Charity!! It’s been super enlightening to study Christ’s attributes associated with the titles that He holds!! I have been able to get to know my Savior on a level that I haven’t before!! I love this work and I love being a missionary. Christ lives and He truly loves us perfectly!! I love you all and I hope you have a great week!!
Tchau tchau a gente!!
Elder Castillo