And then there were 3

Our little family has grown to happy 3 this week! This last Friday we received Elder Gonzalez from Colombia and now we'll be a trio for the transfer. That also means I'll be staying in Malaga for another month! It's a little crazy to be in a trio and to be training 2 elders at once, but I'm super excited and we're gonna learn a lot! Elder Gonzalez is hilarious and I get to keep practicing my Spanish. My two companions are 22 and 24 so I'll be the baby of the group, but oh well. 

This week I don't have a lot to share as work has slowed down a little bit, but it's still been great. We are working a lot with our recent converts and it's so fun to watch as their knowledge deepens and they begin to "connect the dots" so to speak. 

This last P day we went to Fuengirola and made arepas and played basketball. The only photos from this week are those that my companion took there, so enjoy! Oh also sorry for being out of order, but this last Friday we did an exchange with the ZL's and taught a lesson about the restoration. The person we were teaching, a once Muslim, turned orthodox, asked if he could be baptized twice. We happily explained the answer to that and he should be baptized the 15th of March!

This week with our recent convert Franklin, we shared chapter 29 of 2 Nephi and basically explained the concept of an open Canon, a simple way of saying that God still speaks! That He still wants to communicate with His children and to lead them home. Verse 9 of that same chapter states:

"And I do this that I may prove unto many that I am the same yesterday, today, and forever; and that I speak forth my words according to mine own pleasure. And because that I have spoken one word ye need not suppose that I cannot speak another; for my work is not yet finished; neither shall it be until the end of man, neither from that time henceforth and forever."

Or better stated by Elder Holland...

"Continuing revelation does not demean or discredit existing revelation. The Old Testament does not lose its value in our eyes when we are introduced to the New Testament, and the New Testament is only enhanced when we read the Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ. In considering the additional scripture accepted by Latter-day Saints, we might ask: Were those early Christians who for decades had access only to the primitive Gospel of Mark—were they offended to receive the more detailed accounts set forth later by Matthew and Luke, to say nothing of the unprecedented passages and revelatory emphasis offered later yet by John? Surely they must have rejoiced that ever more convincing evidence of the divinity of Christ kept coming. And so do we rejoice."

We are a Church, or better stated, a people, that believe that God does not stop speaking, and will not stop speaking, until His work is finished. How beautiful that it is Him that leads this work in our day and we have the privilege of listening and following that guidance. 

Elder Dougall