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| This wonderful woman - keeps the missionaries clothes nice and clean. THANK YOU!!! |
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Why hello there family. It is so good to hear from you mom and hear that all is going well.
This past week on Tuesday we had to go to the dentist office again. It takes almost all day just to get there and to get back. Which is a bummer cause we lose a lot of time. When we got back we went with George, it was really good and we had a good time. We taught him about how he needs to really think about what he is doing and the decision he is about to make. He told us he wasn't sure still so we just told him, alright we´ll go through the baptisim questions and we´ll see how ready you are. He answered all of them perfectly and it went really well. He felt a lot better after that and then we just bore testimony to him. It was really spiritual and we really helped him feel ready. We told him that on Thursday we would pass by and see what he had decided. He talked with one of the members who told him he wasn't ready to be baptized and it made me really sad. He just had a lot of fear to do so. We talked with george again and got him ready so we are going to try for this Saturday. Hopefully he will be baptized. i just shared with him the scriptrue in Alma about not waiting. Now is the time, not tomorrow, not in 2 days, it is right now. we really have no idea when the Lord will come.
We also went with Noelia and Kevin and that went kind of well. Satan is really doing his work on them now. I hate satan, i dont know if i have told you that before. anyways we go there one night and Noelia told us that she was thinking of getting a divorce with Kevin and that they dont want to follow through with things. it made me really sad, but in that moment i just remembered in my mind to watch the movie together forever with them. so we set a appointment for the next day and we went to watch it with them. it went really good. first they watched a little bit and were sitting seperated. then kevin put his arm around her and then they started moving closer and closer. it was really funny. i think the spirit really touched them on that one. anyways we just bore testimony after the movie and they really liked it. they were so happy afterwords. i really hope we can save their marriage because if someone really truly is living the gospel it can save any marriage. we just need to humble ourselves and be better people ourselves. It´s like what President Monson said, we shouldnt look for what we want in a spouse but what we want them to see in us. then the perfect person will come along and all will be ok.
Sharom is really coming along really well. She really is enjoying all of the lessons here and it is really cool. She believes but since last Sunday was election day she couldn't come to church. I really think she will be baptized. The sad thing is that I probably won't be here to baptize her but I've learned that's how the mission works. you need to work hard in your area and expect all missionaries to do so, so that when we go to another area we have people to work with. We started teaching her about the plan of salvation, and at first she was just like no it's impossible, we couldn't of existed before this earth. It is impossible. Then we just showed her a couple scriptures and she really knew that it was true. She said how beautiful it was to know the truth. God sends us here to progress and to learn so we can be like Him. Our potential is huge and we just need to live this life being obedient.
Wednesday night, Hermano Colindrez's father died. it was so sad. i feel so bad for him. he was out on visits for the night because he is the elder's quorum president, and we were eating dinner with the family when they got the call. it was sad, he came home from his visits and i could tell he wanted us to leave because he was just tearing up but still trying to hold it in, so we just headed out and i told him that it would be ok and that thanks to this gospel he knows what is going to happen and that it is a happy time, not a sad one. Thank goodness for this gospel that we have that we literally know perfectly where we will be going after this life. if we didnt know this, what would be the point of living and doing the things that are challenges to us. yeah this church may be restricting, but God asks us to live it. Are we really willing to obey God, or are we just going along with life. If we Live the way that God wants us to live, we will have no problems and we will be with our families again. If not... well there is no promise as the Savior said so himself.
I love this church mom and i love My Savior and all He did for us. Especially God for preparing such a great plan for us.
The conference yesterday with Elder Falabella, was really good. He is really an inspired man of God. He truly receives revelation for us. He just mainly talked to us about how we need to support our wards here more and do the work of the Lord. He said that Every single person that is called in the church is called from revelation. To say that the person who called the bishop doesn't have revelation is the same to say that the prophet doesn't have revelation. So we need to be careful. Also anything bad we say about the bishop or any leader in the church, that will fall upon us in the judgment. He also talked about a new thing the church is trying where we work from the center point of strength. He used the example of Ammon. Ammon baptized king Lamoni who was a Father, and then his wife. The servants were converted and others. He then asked us, now do you guys think that Ammon baptized thousands? We were like yeah, and he said no. Then he showed us in chapter 19 about how he called other people to go out and baptize as well. He compared this to our wards. He said that it is literally impossible that we can baptize everyone here. We baptize one strong member then that person spreads the gospel and baptizes another. Then those 2 baptize more, then those 4 baptize more and more and more. He also told us we need to stop speaking like bums here and we need to use professional Spanish. I really learned a lot from him.
Love Elder shipley
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