December 3, 2018

Welp fam I think this is last time i will probably write one of these family letters. I have one more PDay but i dont know if ill have time to write. So we have a good week, not a ton of news honestly haha. We have been praying and fasting for the family Reynaga to be able to be baptized this saturday. The mom and her 2 kids and sooooo ready, but the dad doesnt want to go his permission for them to get baptized, so we have a lesson wednesday and we are really hoping that he will open up and have his heart touched so that his family can get baptized! As my time in the mission has come to an end, ive been pondering alot about what I have able to learn in these 2 years. I think the greatest and most important thing I have gained in my time serving as a full time missionary is a greatly strengthened testimony of my Savior. I have learned and experienced of the Savior´s love for me and for all of God´s children. I know he is my Savior because I have felt the love, peace, and direction that comes from living His gospel. I know that as I make the transition to no longer being a full time missionary I will have a lot greater trials, but I have understood and learned that as a I rely on Jesus Christ and as a follow in his footsteps I will be able to overcome any trial that comes my way. So after 2 years of hard physical and spiritual work, I have been molded into who my Heavenly Father needs to be, to help Him better carry out His work on the earth. Fam and friends I love you all dearly! See yall next week!!

November 26, 2018

Super good week out here in Bolivia! Well this sunday we were able to get a lot of our progressing investigators to church. We are still working with the family Reynaga. That is the family where the mom had a super cool dream and well here and her 2 kids Jair and Rous. We are really hoping they can get baptized this next saturday. There is nothing stopping them, just their own desire! Another family is Ena and her daughter Sara. This is their 2nd time coming to church and they really like it, they are just really busy and well their biggest obstacle has been coming to church but they are doing good. Then we have another teenager of 18 years called Romer. He was brought up in basically an atheist back ground but hes been reading the Book of Mormon and coming to church and he´s been changing a ton its been cool to see that. That is one of the most amazing things ive learned in the mission is that as we strive to live the gospel of Jesus Christ in its fullness we will receive strength and happiness and other people will detect that in us! Well fam love and miss you all!

Photo: A super dope member loves us and north americans in general and made us a pumpkin pie, it was great

November 12, 2018

Hey fam hows it going,hope all is well! Well this week Hector got baptized this week so that was the highlight! We had a really good week tho. We have this other family that came to church this week, well a mom and her 4 kids. She was a reference from the Bishop and we contacted them last week and she came to church yesterday with her whole family! She had a pretty interesting dream too. So in her dream she was on top of a big hill. From up above she saw the rest of her family of the bottom of the hill drowning in a big flood that had come. So in short basically she saved her whole family from the flood and she feels that she needs to help her family being saved spiritually by going to church as a family and thats what she did! So that was pretty cool. We hope to help them prepared to get baptized in these coming weeks! Welp fam love you all, hope yall have a good week!

November 5, 2018

Hey fam hows it going!! So we had a really good week out here! We had a really cool miracle this week. So saturday we started our fast and that night we decided to go contact a reference que our bishop had recently given us and we knocked the door and they let us come in. We then shared our message with them and then mom tells us that today she had been lookng for a church nearby to send her kids that sunday! She said that she felt that we were sent to god to help guide them. She wasnt able to go to church yesterday but her 3 kids went and they really liked it. So that was pretty cool. This saturday Hector is going to be baptized. They were a menos active family that apparently had gotten baptized like 40 years ago but there is no record for the dad Hector who is 63. So hes gonna get baptized this saturday so that´ll be cool. Welp fam love and miss you all till next week!

October 29, 2018

Thanks everyone for the birthday wishes they mean alot! Well we had a good week despite the trials! The biggest trial was friday in the morning we were playing soccer in the house for exersize and i kicked the ball alittle too hard and it hit my companions feets, and it took his big toe nail right off. Then we went to the mission doctor and he pulled out the rest. So my comp hasn´t been able to walk at all. So this weekend was pretty long haha. But he´s getting better so this week should be a little more normal. Uhh honestly thats about it, we have some really good people with baptism dates they are just being pretty lazy about going to church, so we are hoping to be able to help them go to church this sunday. Well my comp, Elder Van Alfen, and I are staying together for this transfer, so looks like he`s gonna kill me! Well fam Ill thats about it, update yall a little more next week!

October 22, 2018

Hey fam whats up! We had a really cool week! Some highlights. The baptism of Axel! He is an 18 year guy we have been teaching for a little less than a month. He is honestly such a stud. He went to General Conference a few weeks ago and during that time he said he felt the power of President Nelson and could feel that he was a living prophet. So that was awesome. Then saturday in the afternoon we had a special broadcast from President Nelson to all of our area. And then Sunday in the afternoon he talked directly and specifically to the country Bolivia! It was pretty awesome he started talking in English and then he said ´´I feel like I should talk to all of your in your native language´´ And then he talked in Spanish for the rest of the conference. It was really powerful he made a ton of promises to the people of the country as they strive to keep the commandments even more faithfully. So good week all in all! Miss and love you all fam!

Photos: A dope jungle garden we went to with my comp. and then the baptism of Axel!

October 8, 2018

Hey fam hows it going!? Well first of all conference was super good. When president Nelson was talking about correcting our use of the church´s name, he promised us as we fixed it the Lord will pour down his blessings upon us as we did his will. It is pretty cool that the Lord`s prophet can promise us so many blessings just for being obedient to this one command. Now if we are obedient to all of his commandments that God has given how blessed would we be! We had a cool miracle with a teenager named Axel that we are teaching. He told us he read the BoM and prayed and recieved an answer from God, He also went to to General Conference and really liked it, so hes preparing to be baptized in a few weeks. Sorry fam dont have more time, ill update yall more next week!!