Opposite of pride is humility

Amadora: Não Ama, adora. This area where I am serving now is literally right next to Lisbon. Instead of taking 3 hours by train to get to the mission office from the Algarve, it takes 15 minutes. IT's really nice. Our area has three stops on the train that goes through it.  It's pretty big. There are a lot of people from Cape Verde that live here or basically there are a lot of people who are from Africa. Also I moved from below the River Tejo to above the river to the North Western part of Lisbon so the weather changed a little bit too. It's freezing cold here. There's literally a part of the city that is called «Venteira» basically windy city. The ward has about 120 people. It's really big. There are a lot of returned missionaries that live here. It's really good. Não Amo, Adoro.

Iago: Eleitissimo.   We found one of the elect. This guy named Iago. He is really cool and pretty ready for baptism. He came to church this week. When we talk to him on Saturday, he said that he had problems with work and he is changing or looking for new work or something. Something is getting messed up with the papers or people are being racist. Something is happening but his mom told him as he was leaving to buy juice for dinner to not get discourage something better will come. Then he talked to us. It was really cool. He is really receptive. I hope he progresses. He is really cool. He is 19 years old. that means that he could still serve a mission. 

Caridade v. Orgulho. The opposite of pride is humility but one thing that really helps to kill pride is Charity. When we love our neighbors we see over their weaknesses and their faults and we help them grow. When we love we forgive the wrongs that people do to us. As missionaries this will be critical. In the D+C and in the New Testament. The Lord teaches that as missionaries, we will be at the judgement of the people that we helped or tried to help. We will be there and give an account of what we did. Sometimes people reject us hard core and it's not easy to be humble. But as a messenger of the atonement of Jesus Christ we need to believe that not only we are worthy of forgiveness and not only our converts are worthy too but those that reject are also worthy of it. If as missionaries we can't forgive those that reject in the hardest of ways we are not worthy of entering the kingdom of god. Some of them will have a change of heart and if we hold it prideful then we won't be worthy of the gift of forgiveness of Jesus Christ. The power that keeps us from being prideful is the Charity. It never fails.

Elder Fogg

Missão Portugal Lisboa

2016-2018