Hey everyone it's been a while since I've written an email, I'll fill you in on what's been going on...
- Friend-wise we don't have a lot of people to teach:
Julio isn't progressing much and I believe this next week we are going to stop teaching him because little by little he has stopped meeting with us and completing the invitations we extend to him.
We have our friend Patricia who took a huge step and left her weekend job so she can come to church!
And this last week we saw a huge miracle with a less active member who sent us a message saying that she wants to baptize her daughter as fast as possible. Her daughter is 10 and has been waiting for her father's permission to be baptized and recently she received permission! So the 29th of this month we are going to have another baptism.
- The branch is doing good. This next week is branch conference and so me and my companion have been practicing in the choir to sing in the conference. (Also this Sunday the 23rd is my birthday ;) so if you want to send me an email that would be awesome.)
- We haven't had too many crazy experiences. One day we found a Honduran couple who invited us over to eat in their house a day after meeting them in the street. They weren't that interested in the church but hey they made us some good food hahaha.
We had some members take us to a castle in the their car 15 minutes from their house after an eating visit which was sweet.
Also we had a random person who had a temple as their profile picture on the app WHATSAPP so I had the opportunity to tell her what the building in her picture was Haha!
I've been made district leader recently which means I plan district meeting every week. I've been focusing the meetings and the lessons on Christ and his missionary example he set for us. One of the best Christlike attributes we can develop is charity and Elder Oaks in a talk from October 2000 said:
The reason charity never fails and the reason charity is greater than even the most significant acts of goodness he cited is that charity, “the pure love of Christ” (Moro. 7:47), is not an act but a condition or state of being. Charity is attained through a succession of acts that result in a conversion. Charity is something one becomes. Thus, as Moroni declared, “except men shall have charity they cannot inherit” the place prepared for them in the mansions of the Father (Ether 12:34; emphasis added). The talk is called the "Challenge to Become". I encourage you all to read it.
Have a great week everyone. This Sunday is my birthday is you want to send me a birthday email! And some pictures!
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