Family!!! ThIs week was great! We worked hard... really
hard, I was tired everyday but it was awesome!
I'm glad everyone is doing well, that makes me so happy to
hear that you guys are safe and healthy and loving life :) you and dad looked
great in you anniversary picture! Honestly I have the best looking parents! And
tell dad his shorts are pretty sick hahaha
Grandpa looks awesome. Tell him hi for me and tell him that
I love him.
That's so crazy that Davis got home! Tell Davis thanks for saying hi!
And props to jake for winning the tournament.
Alright so now about this week. It was great!!! We invited
all the Ecuadorians to be baptized haha and we were sooo blessed! We found a
bunch of people that were just ready to accept our invitations.
Fist we made
up a new technique on how to find people to teach. Its called the "Can I
use the bathroom technique" So me and my companion both had to use the
bathroom way bad and decided that we would ask someone to let us
in to use their bathroom and then we would sneak in a quick lesson while the other person was using the bathroom. It worked pretty good. So we both used the bathroom and explained a
small lesson. The greatest part was that after we finished and were leaving he
thanked us for teaching him haha it was great, we also thanked him a lot for
his bathroom :)
Next technique was the "free food technique" So
we eat lunch with a lady that doesn't have male members of her family living with
her so we always have to bring a member to eat with us, but on Thursday we
didn't have a member so we used the technique of trying to invite someone to
come eat with us off the street to obey the rule of having an adult with us.
We asked like 6 different guys until finally we found a guy that was 20 to come
with us and eat. Haha...we also taught him a lesson during lunch so it worked out pretty good!
We also had a reference this week, from a member that is a
little bit, well he's not all there in the head but he's cool. And he is like
70 years old and he gave us a reference of another old guy who is 82 his name
is G. and he accepted to come to church and to be baptized but not
only him but his whole family who are like 6 in all! We taught them yesterday
after church and wow it was such a powerful lesson. We were probably there for
2 hours just talking and answering their questions. I felt the spirit so
strong, to be able to testify that our church is true. And the lady that was
making the questions, said I feel like I have more questions but from the way
you talk about what you know they go out of my mind and I feel like what you're
saying is true. She said I want to follow God and I think what you've told me
is the truth. Her daughter and her dad have baptism dates for the
25th but hopefully soon the whole family can progress together to get baptized!
I need your prayers for them.
Now lastly this week I have been studying a lot about the
conversion. And what it truly means to be converted to the gospel and as a
missionary how we can show to God that we are converted to this work. First in
the scripture guide in spanish it explains that conversion cannot come before
baptism and the gift of the holy ghost. So we talk a lot about baptism but
that's why, because without it someone cannot truly be converted. Now lot
of times as members of the church we have a testimony but we aren't trully converted.
For example when someone bares their testimony and says "I know the book
of mormon is true." Or when some says "I know the book of mormon is
true because everyday I read it for an hour and I feel God's hand in my life as
I search his guidance through the scriptures." A lot different right? Well
anyways to be truly converted we have to both know and act. And the same goes
for a missionary; if you want God to see that you are converted you have to
show him that you want the salvation of others and you have to work hard! Alma
29:4 I ought not to harrow up in my desires the firm decree of a just
God, for I know that he granteth unto men according to their desire,
whether it be unto death or unto life; yea, I know that he allotteth unto men,
yea, decreeth unto them decrees which are unalterable, according to
their wills, whether they be unto salvation or unto destruction.
If we show him our desires he will help us succeed in every
aspect of our lives!
City Where We are Working in Guayaquil
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