Canyon Lakes

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We went back to Spring Texas to see one of Hermana Calderon’s old investigators get baptized.

Luz is doing awesome as well! She LOVED conference! She decided she wants to be more faithful about reading the Book of Mormon, so she read 50 chapters last week! She is amazing, and I feel so blessed that I get to teach her!

Our other investigators aren’t progressing as much right now, but we have been out finding new people! Our English class is also going great! 11 people came! (That’s huge because no one was coming when I got here!) We also started teaching an English class a public school. We have around 20 students in that one! Life is great in Canyon Lakes!

This week I started reading the general conference talks. I was really able to relate to Elder Jeffrey R Holland´s talk. He spoke about becoming perfect, eventually. In the mission field your faults are magnified, and it is easy to get discouraged and to think about everything we should be. Christ commands us to be perfect, and perfection seems like an impossible goal. But, we shouldn’t be discouraged. (That’s what Satan wants!)

Elder Holland taught that “Jesus did not intend His sermon on this subject to be a verbal hammer for battering us about our shortcomings. No, I believe He intended it to be a tribute to who and what God the Eternal Father is and what we can achieve with Him in eternity. In any case, I am grateful to know that in spite of my imperfections, at least God is perfect--that at least He is, for example, able to love His enemies, because too often, due to the “natural man” and woman in us, you and I are sometimes that enemy. How grateful I am that at least God can bless those who despitefully use Him because, without wanting or intending to do so, we all despitefully use Him sometimes. I am grateful that God is merciful and a peacemaker because I need mercy and the world needs peace. Of course, all we say of the Father’s virtues we also say of His Only Begotten Son, who lived and died unto the same perfection.”

In the Book of Mormon, Moroni teaches that we can be made perfect in Christ; it isn’t something we can do on our own. Perfection is something we can obtain only as a gift from Him.

Elder Holland illustrated this principle by recounting a New Testament parable. “A servant was in debt to his king for the amount of 10,000 talents. Hearing the servant’s plea for patience and mercy, “the lord of that servant was moved with compassion, and … forgave … the debt.” But then that same servant would not forgive a fellow servant who owed him 100 pence. On hearing this, the king lamented to the one he had forgiven, “Shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellow servant, even as I had pity on thee?”

If 100 pence was equal to $100, then 10,000 talents would equal around $1 billion dollars, something beyond our comprehension. It’s supposed to be; it shows how incapable we are to ever repaying the debt we owe the Savior, but how we are very capable of forgiving the 100 pence that is owed to us.

Elder Holland taught that “this isn’t a story about two servants arguing in the New Testament. It is a story about us, the fallen human family--mortal debtors, transgressors, and prisoners all. Every one of us is a debtor, and the verdict was imprisonment for every one of us. And there we would all have remained were it not for the grace of a King who sets us free because He loves us and is “moved with compassion toward us.” We may not be able to demonstrate yet the 10,000-talent perfection the Father and the Son have achieved, but it is not too much for Them to ask us to be a little more godlike in little things, that we speak and act, love and forgive, repent and improve.”

I love that! Heavenly Father loves us so much, and He just wants us to do our best! This video talks about this a little bit:  Click Here

I hope everyone has an awesome week!

Love,




Hermana Bettridge

Hermana Calderon and I wore matching dresses to MLC