Author Archives: Jesse Garcia

This is not a test. This is an urgent message!

By | December 11, 2010

What does it mean to be missionary? Living as a normal teenager in America my idea of what being missionary meant was very tainted. Believing that you have to go out of the country, believing that you have to be this amazing speaker who knows every single bible verse by memory, and really thinking being a missionary was weird. Why would they give up there life, their comfort? Why would they give up everything they know to go somewhere that is so unknown? Why would they do this? These past couple

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God wants to make our dreams come true.

By | November 13, 2010

We were all in the chapel one day praying our normal evening prayer, and the word dream really stood out for me. Dream, what are dreams about? I sat there just thinking of all my dreams that I’ve wanted to come true. I thought about all the cars, houses, planes, and adventures that I’ve always dreamed about. I was dreaming of my perfect life. I just sat there, and said man this is never going to happen; I’m a missionary. Then I just thought: all these dreams are what my flesh, and what my earthly

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Finding my mother’s love for me.

By | October 23, 2010

The past two weeks have been such a blessing. We have been diving into Mary, her role in the church, how she can help us, and how we can come before her for guidance to our father. The most important things we learned is how she is our Mother. In scripture, Jesus gave her to us before he died so from then on we could address her as Mother.  She is the mother of the church. We also learned how approachable she is because all she wants for us is to lead us towards her son so we can understand what

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