Hello to all! This has been such a great week in Valencia!! We went to work! Elder Dayes is a beast at contacting everyone, and we found 7 new investigators! We also had 6 at church, so that was a great blessing. There are Standards of excellence, kind of a weekly goal that we work for with our numbers, and we hit 4 out of the 5, something you only see in a few companionships each week. It was great =) We also had the baptism of Noeli, a 9 year old from the Dominican Republic that we've been teaching. It was such a great service. A special spirit of humility and family unity was there with everyone. Hopefully we will keep up the great work! Klifson, Joy, and their kids are doing great. They learn impressively quick, and love the church, feeling the Spirit, and reading the scriptures! Joy already invited a friend to come to church, who brought her 12 and 6 year old sons! It was so great. Also, Caroline will be moving out to live alone with her kids, the man doesn't want to be married and they've had a few arguments lately, so that like sealed the deal, and she could be baptized on the 27th or the 4th. It's just great!!
Thanks for the emails. That's so great that my brothers are getting close to their eagles. Get em done!! Haha dad should just make a pinewood derby for old times sake It is wierd to think that one year ago I was opening my mission call. It was wierd to be in the same place in December too haha. I hadn't even thought about school and how its almost over. That was probably the wierdest realization I had after reading that. Before I know it I'll have to be registering...time flies!
I'm glad the Sunday School class went well. Doctrine and Covenants is so great. A special book of scripture unique to our day. I'm in like section 50 in spanish. It's a little harder to read than the book of mormon in spanish, but by the end I'll have lots of great scriptures marked to use =) Using the scriptures is really the best and only way to teach. We can say what we want and they can take or word for it or reject it.We talked yesterday with a joven from California doing a masters program in music here, and his friends have been missionaries and he's talked with them before. He seems to have learned all the pieces, but can't connect them and has lots of questions. He asked the other missionaries why his other baptism wasn't "valid" and of course they told him that his priest had no authority. He asked us the same question, we answered basically the same way, but read in Acts 19 about people having been baptized by John, the prophet who baptized Jesus Himself, but Paul baptized them again under the new authority he had been given with the established church of Jesus Christ, and it made all the difference in the teaching and how he took it. The scriptures have power =)
Have fun at hope of america--last time! También, cumpleaños feliz a Ethan!! Su regalo:
Also, enjoy the snow! We got none of that here!
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