October 17,2011

Well this week was a good week. We taught quite a few lessons and extended a few baptismal dates. Jose Moreno was handed back to us from the Zone Leaders and he is solid for baptism. We gave him a date for Nov. 5th and then when we stopped by sunday to remind him of church he asked if he could be baptized earlier so he now has a date for October 29th. We taught Jose Sagabadra for the first time this past friday. He just randomly showed up at church last sunday so we went up to him and were like heyy.... baptism.... well something along those lines. At the end of the lesson on friday he accepted baptism for the 6th of nov and he showed up for church sunday so things with him are going well.

I really learned the blessings of service this week. The sister missionaries Sister Chatter and Sister Hurst invited Elder Bolivar and I to lunch on thursday so we went. Sister Hurst went to go pay but her missionary credit card wouldnt read so I went up and slid my card and paid. Later that day 2 different cars drove up and gave us $20 each, blessings..... We are teaching this man Wilfredo who has been meeting with missionaries and going to church for more than 10 years and finally I just asked him why he wont get baptized to which his response surprised me. He is married to a member who is sealed in the temple to someone who has since passed away, and he asked why can men be sealed more than once but women no. It was a very deep doctrine question, but really comes down to the simplest answer. Faith is not to have a perfect knowledge. Sometimes we dont understand the why but we have to settle for the answer of "It is something we cannot answer but is the church true?". He even sat down with M. Russell Ballard before and asked him, he didnt have time to answer fully but he said he would call him later. Regretfully Wilfredo lost his phone since then and got a new number so he never got the full answer.

    BTW mom, we recently went by and visited the Espinoza family and I was told to tell you that I have been adopted as their white son and they are my brown family. Lol still love you mom.