The golf trip sounded sweet, with an excpetion of the BYU hater (btw wheres my BYU sports corner this week?). They have a couple of Golf courses in Bogota, i´ll have to hit up a bucket of balls when i´m there.
Speaking of Snows. Is Dan married yet?
And before i forget, who is the new Stake President? Did any Apostles visit for the change?
I just realized that my birthday is pretty close. I´ll be twenty. If you do the difficult math, that´s half of 40. ¡Estoy viejo(i´m old)!
Pretty rockin´ week here in Central. We had interviews with the president, and the president did a little bit of lecturing my companion for his trunkie attributes. So needless to say, there was a lot more obediance in our companionship this week, thus a lot more blessings. The Lord blessed us with 12 new investigators this week. Outragous, we had like, six combined with the three weeks before. And to add on to that, we have 4 killer references that we recieved yesterday that we are yet to teach. So yeah, the field is white!
Four of these were the second generation of inactives members. So I don´t know if i mentioned before but in my ward we have a program where we visit all the members (the majority of which are inactive) on their birthdays and give them a little card with a scripture and a message from the bishop. Very simple, cheap, and effective. With this birthday, we didn´t have the oportunity to visit her on the day of, but when we were close yesterday we decided to pass by. It turned out that at the hour we passed by the whole family was gathering together to celeberate her birthday. Which consisted of 5 members, and 4 non-members. The family hadn´t been to church for over 20 years, the father told me that really it was very hard to transport their family to the chapel, cause at this time there was only one in all of Bucaramanga, thus it was far away, and they lost touch of the Church. The lesson went well, the spirit was there, and were heading back on wednesday. The mother, of the family, said that ´God had sent us´. The more and more i look for it, I see his Hand more in my daily life.
I hope with this evidence, along with so much more this week, my companion can learn more the importance of obidience. He has said before that, if your baptizing, and your following the ´important rules´, the others don´t really matter. How absouletly wrong he was. We don´t pick and choose the commandments were going to keep. We try our best to keep them, because we love Him who made them, and we know that if we do keep them, He will bless us abudently.
My beloved Sister Jess -
I know have been bad at getting back to your letters, but if its any bit of consilation, i get them all and love to read them. BIEN HECHO (well done) with the member missionary work. Without a doubt, the Lord place the majority of people he is preparing in the circle of relationships of the members. I share the heartache of watching people, that i love not commiting to live with the knowledge of the truth of the restored gospel.
I don´t know if the missionaries have a shared Alma 32 (faith is like a seed) with her, but if i were there i would make sure that she read it. It helped an investigator we had with the same problem. Like it says in v. 21,faith is not to have a perfect knowledge of things; therefore if ye have faith ye hope for things which are not seen, which are true. ´ The chapter rocked my world this past week when i read it with the prespective of missionary work, i realized that its mine, and the members responsibilty to help these new converts, that ¨know the seed is good¨ thus they were baptized, to cultivate that seed so that it can grow in to a tree and give forth fruit, which i attributed to a firm testimony or conversion, and not parish and fall away, when they are pressed up against the wall of faith, and begin to question whether that seed was really good or not. But if they have those roots in the Church of Christ, in ´a foundation whereon if men build they cannot fall´ (Hel 5:12)
Jess i´m proud of your efforts in this great work. Remember the Lord´s promise to Alma and the Sons of Mosiah: Now when our hearts were depressed, and we were about to turn back, behold, the Lord comforted us, and said: Go amongst thy brethren, the Lamanites, and bear with patience thine afflictions, and I will give unto you success.
The mission has broke my heart many a times. But I find some much comfort in this promise. I know that if i´m patient in the hard times, don´t complain, when it is so easy to do, but press forward with optimsim (wow i have no idea how to spell), success will come.
Wow, enough of my district meeting-esque letter. I love you all, and am so thankful for all that you do, and have done for me.
con mucho amor,
Elder Pipa (what my security guard friend in our complex calls me, haha. Pipa means like fat stomach or a gut. To call someone gordo here is not offensive at all, so i just roll with it, and accept my chubby stomach)
mom dad,
Thanks for the packages! I´ll let you know when i get them.
jess
haha, almost forgot to answer this, im so bad. But just let me know when todd is going to call or what ever, we decide when we call. I don´t know if im going to be here in b/manga or not, so when it get closer i´ll talk to my companion about it. But no worries. probably around 2-5 in colombian time, i think it´s 3 hours ahead. Not sure. Hablaramos (We´ll talk). BTW send the kids my much love for them. miss them when i talk with the kids around here
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