Elder Max Merritt

I now have 16 months in the mission. I have learned many things, both temporal and spiritual. The biggest and best thing I have learned is how to comprehend the plan of salvation. In his plan, we can see where we come from, what we are doing here on earth, and what will be our reward after this life. Our time in the premortal life was an exciting time, where we had this plan presented to us, and we used our agency to come to this earth. Leaving God's presence was hard, we had the comforts and riches to last us an eternity. But we chose to follow this plan because we knew the rewards and blessings after his life were worth the struggle.  Now we are here on the earth, some struggling more than others. We have temptations of every size, drugs, sex, lying, greed, and the list goes on. We are here on earth not to see how successful we can because but to see how dedicated we are to fulfill the commandments. GOD DOESN'T WANT TO SEE OUR SUCCESSES; HE ONLY WANTS TO SEE OUR SACRIFICES. ...

This next few weeks I'm working on my focus as a missionary, so mom dad I won't be calling, and friends I won't be writing every week! I love you all!

I love you all! 6 de enero Well today we had plan de zone, and it went really well! Me and my companion had a good ping pong going and set some really good goals! Later we went out for ice cream and played PHASE 10 and UNO with a few of the elders here. We then wrote to our families, that was really nice! We did not have many lessons, but we passed by a family that we had been visiting and something funny happened. This man walked by the window and started teasing the dad in front of everyone because he did not have a shirt on. He said shut up in little words. The man then started to ask if we could share a message of God with him, as he did the son, who has 4 years, said VAYENCE DE MI CASA! In English that is GET OUT OF MY HOUSE! Then slammed the window in his face! I tried not to laugh! That's about all folks! I love you good night 7 de enero Well today was soooo good! We started an inter change and I’m with Elder Burnham from Arizona. He is 6 foot 5 so no one tried t...

Happy New Year! As ten years of my life have come and gone, I must make a list of goals that I will complete in my next ten years of my life… ·          2020- Finish my mission as a full time Spanish speaking missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Get married.. Nah- just kidding! ·          2021- Okay now is the time, get married in the temple to someone who will always support me in my decisions, love our kids can help me to grow spiritually and mentally every day. My wife will have a firm testimony of the restored gospel of Christ and in the plan of salvation. I will follow the promptings of the spirit in the search for her so that she will be someone who humbles me. ·          2022- Have my first child. The plan that I have about kids is 95 percent vote of my wife and 5 percent my vote… but I would like to have my first child at 22....

25 de deciembre Well today was a good day, we played soccer talked with the fam and it was good. We got to the room and my companion said we did nothing today... I’m working on speaking my mind more because I bottle up my emotions a lot, so I told him we had a wonderful visit with Brian where we got him excited to read the Book of Mormon on his 24 hour bus ride. Also we taught Michel how to STUDY the scriptures, invited her to do so with her PF brother, and we ended the night in a FHE with the family Rojas where we did a good diagram of spoons and cups. In my opinion we were planting seeds. I love you good night. 26 de deciembre Well good day but also a rough day. This morning it felt like I blinked the night away. In other words, I was just as tired as I was when I went to bed. We did find a family so that is very good. As we taught them they were like, “ohhhh that makes so much sense!” And he said that he had prayed to know what church to join the night before. As wel...

15 de deciembre Today was a good day, although it was my first day in the mission without a single investigator at church, we got the great opportunity to serve. We got home from church and our land lord asked if we could help take out a wall. So we got our sledge hammers and chisel and went to town on it! Afterwards we went to have a lesson but she was not home... so we went and cut corn. It was a place where they had knives and cut the corn off the husk and put it into a big bucket. They did not trust the gringo with a knife so I did it by hand. Well when they got up to move the big bucket this eagle scout took their knife so I could be like them. Well first things first the knife went right into my hand! It was not bad but it did not feel good. Ha-ha we have the 25 nights of Christmas this month so 25 family home evenings. We had a really nice FHE tonight. I love you good night 16 de deciembre Today was a good day, we woke up and did a deep clean on the room, then we went ...

10 de deciembre Well folks we are moving in on Christmas! Today was a good day, we went to the offices to get some books and cards for some of the areas and so I could talk to president. It went really well, so we then went and had district council and yeah it was alright.... we had to fill out the arqueo as well and I’m pretty sure I messed it up but I sent it in anyway. We did not have any lessons today with the people we are preparing to be baptized, but we did find some new people and it was awesome how the Lord put them in our path. One example- we knocked on a door and the person in the 3rd floor on the other side of the road said, “Hey They are not home.” So we started talking to her and she is now a new person we are teaching. She has never talked to missionaries before and it's probably because she lives on the third floor! I love you good night 11 de deciembre Today I got to know Elder Hastings, he's from Las Vegas and loves computer games. He only has 2 wee...