September 16, 2013

Elder Keller (who is standing on a piano bench), Elder Shaink (who is not standing on anything, he is a giant) Elder Roco and Elder Martinez #verizonraisingthebar 

 




 
Yesterday we had stake conference and it was so good! We had a transmission from Salt Lake and so uh...some man spoke first, the second counselor in the General Relief Society spoke, David A Bednar spoke and Richard G Scott as well, and they all spoke Spanish! Except Bednar but still it was really good and I love Richard G Scott he is so great!! He spoke to the young women specifically about how they are daughters of God and it was really sweet. It was a really good broadcast!! 

            One of our new investigators was going to come but he ended up having to work Sunday morning, his name is Martin and he is really great he came to noche misional on Jueves, we unfortunately weren't there because we had to leave to be in the house by 9:30 but some of the members in our ward told us that we showed up at 10 and stayed for an hour talking to the ward so that was really great to hear! So we are hoping we can get him coming to church and have more lessons with him as well. We also found a woman named Cinthia and the first time we just talked with her for a couple minutes about el LDM, we gave her one and asked if we could visit with her the next day and if she could read the intro and we could talk about it more when we came back, and so that was good and she read it and had some really good questions and is a really sweet lady! So we are hoping that we can get her progressing as well! The Familia Santa Cruz has been hard to find this past week and we don't know why, we have been passing by and calling we gave them invitations to the Conference but it ended up being that they couldn't come. We are going to have a lesson this week and it's obvious that they have some doubts so we are hoping to figure out what exactly those doubts are and help them through it and get them prepared to be baptized.

 One day this week I had a member tell me that one of his companions from the United States told him about a place where all the righteous people are going to meet before the 2nd coming and I was like yeah Adam-ondi-aham, and after we talked about it I realized that I don't know much about it so I was looking in the scriptures in D&C and reading about it in the Bible Dictionary and that was really interesting to read about. We have been doing the same things for companionship study which has been really nice, Hna Burgos is really helping me with my lessons and Spanish, we have also been reading sections in PME to help us with our investigators. Estudio Idioma is going good. I'm trying to teach Hna Burgos phrases and she is helping me create sentences so everything there is going good!

 This week after we taught Cinthia the first lessons and we were talking about praying and Hna Burgos asked Cinthia if she's had an experience where she has had a prayer answered, and Cinthia told us a really sweet experience that she had and how she believes that milagros can happen through prayers. Her story was just so sweet and humble, and it was just a sweet testimony to hear, because I have my testimony of prayer through experiences in my life but it's really nice to hear others testimonies because it just shows that God is our loving Heavenly Father and wants to give everyone what they really truly want and all we need to do is ask. It was an experience that strengthened my testimony.           

Life is good we are just trying to find new people, like always, and help the ones that we have progress. I found this quote the other day that has helped me a lot: 

"God will have a humble people, either we can choose to be humble or we can be compelled to be humble." Ezra Taft Benson    Take it and interpret it how you will but it’s a good one! 

I love you all so much! I hope you have a good week!! Thanks so much for everything!! 

Love you,
Morgan