Hola everyone. Well, I've got good news and bad news. The bad news, we didn't have a baptism this week. . . The good news, we will be having it for sure this Saturday and I'm flippin excited. We got to the house of Flia Chinchuña last night and I heard the words I had been waiting to here for a few months now, "Elders, this Saturday I'm going to get baptized." I can not even begin to describe how good it was to hear that. This family has like four months now and we have done everything, and I mean everything to get to this point. I'm super excited to get to this Saturday. The only thing is, is the dad still hasn't committed. We hope Wednesday we can get that done. Nonetheless we are excited. This week we were able to commit four people more to be baptized, and they attended church and everything so we are super excited. They are set to go for the middle of April. So this week with divisions I was with an elder named Elder Leifer. He is from Utah and we got talking. He asked me if I had ever went to Blue Mountain Scout Camp. I said of course that camp is pretty much in my back yard. He said really, I went too. Then he said, I remember one year there was a forest fire. I about fell over. I said, I was there that year. Turns out we had attended the same camp like three yrs in a row, but wait it gets better. Then he said, have you heard of Panguitch? I said of course we played them in sports and had a lot of success;);););) Then he said, my cousins are Keldon and Kyler Norris. They ran cross country and played basketball. I was like ya I know them as well;) It was kind of crazy to get to talk to him a little haha. He's a great elder though. It was great day. Just kind of funny that we might have met five years ago and not even known it. It has been super cold lately, a ton of rain, and I have been getting my moneys worth the big jacket I bought. It's freezing in my sector right now haha. Well just to end I was reading in 3rd Nephi today and I read something pretty cool. In 3rd Nephi 11:7,"behold my beloved son, in whom I am well pleased, in whom I have glorified my name." You ever thought about what God would say if he had to present us to a multitude of people? Would he say the same thing? Or would he say something different. It's really interesting to think about, when we look at ourselves and take a minute to think about that question. God knows me better than I know me; would he be able to say the same thing about me? I know if we can go about our lives striving to serve God so that we can hear those words we will be able to become closer to God. I love that the scripture and that is pretty much what I've got to share today. I love you guys. Ill talk to ya next week. Hasta luego.
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March 2016
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