Well i see that you havent been on the computer yet so i will try to get on a little later to see what you have to say about the past week. My time is coming to an end here in San Francisco as i now have 6 months here in this area. so today and tomorrow i will be saying my goodbyes from the people here. I am really sad to leave here because i have made so many good friends here and i really feel like these people are family of mine. it is sad. but time to move on, meet new people and get to know more of Guatemala. I´ll let you know next week where im going to. changes are this wednesday. anyways i am doing great here in San Fran. we are having a lot of success and we have a couple of Dates for baptisim. alot will be getting baptized on the 8th of October. just a week after general conference. it will be sweet. anyways here is a little bit of what happened this past week.
So with Noelia and Kevin, they are still moving along really well and progressing in their marriage. i feel like we had a breakthrough with them and it was sweet. we took the President of the Elders quorum with us to their house. He was able to relate to their story a little bit and able to share with them what happened in his marriage and to prove to them that marriage isnt easy and that you have to work at it, and in the end people will be grand people if we work hard. I love the analogy that i always use here, something that i created, we have to work hard in order to have a mansion here in this earth right. Well if we want a mansion in heaven then we must work pretty dang hard and be obedient here on this earth to achieve that mansion in the life afterwords. There is nothing we can do to force people but we can invite always.
Now with George, he is doing good and he was having a hard time with the baptism date for the past saturday. So i told him, look lets pray right now and we´ll see what the spirit tells us. so we all knelt down and we prayed and i kid you now the date of the 8th of october just popped in my head. and then it all made sense. he felt the exact same feeling too. he said he feels good about it because it would give him time to study the gospel a little bit more and to be in church more and to also be able to hear from the Prophet in General conference. So that was really neat for him to be able to feel that too and to know what he needed to do.
Also with Sharom she is doing good still and she is moving along really well. she came to church with us this last week and she really loved it. i was explaining to her about all the things we have in the church like the primary and classes and everything and she loved it. she said she was going to bring her kids the next sunday so that was a cool experience. but yeah we really helped her realize about the happiness in this life and that is when i learned that too. The true happiness in this life is our families. there is nothing else here that can bring us more happiness. but yeah it was a neat lesson with her.
Well yeah that was our week. This past week was the independence day here in guatemala. on saturday our ward had a party and it went well. they just did a lot of typical dancing and it was so sweet, i got some sick pictures and movies of it and it was really neat. also we were able to leave with the family reyes on divisions on sunday again. they were sad that it would probably be our last one. but they are such a cool family. definitely a family to come back and visit when you guys come here. we took some pictures like we were djs, haha it was funny. well that is pretty much all. i love you guys all so much and i miss you a ton. i really cant believe that i have 13 months now. yesterday i was working all day and didnt even remember it. until that night when my friend called me and told me happy 13th day. haha the time is flying by here and im trying really hard to make every moment count. i realize my time is limited and that i am almost out of here. and that scares me. well i better get going. were going to go play sports now. talk to you later.
love your son
elder shipley
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