March 25, 2013 Family Frogs!

First off, I love you all very much. General Conference anybody?? Anybody? Should be a real dandy. 

In short, we had a terrific week. Perhaps numbers have been higher before, but miracles never. 

Kyle has been very excited, for a very long time to be baptized. Well shoot, to be a missionary! Forget baptism, he has been talking a little bit about a mission already. But let´s not get ahead of ourselves, heaven forbid. Natalia, on the other hand, has had quite a few doubts, and in short lacking the faith in Jesus and his atonement to make the change from Catholiscism to Mormonism. Friday, a non member gave us a big bag a bread, and we felt that we should give it to Natalia and her family. We passed by, and ended up simply reading a few verses from Alma 7 with Natalia, her assigned reading from before. After a few minutes of discussing the scriptures, she broke down and told us that she had prayed to Heavenly Father, and wants to be baptized with Kyle (and maybe a cousin) as well the 20th of April. Turned out she had lost a visa card, prayed to God and made a deal with him that if she found it, she´d be baptized. She did! And she will! She also asked us if it is okay to be baptized over something so trivial. We told her it was ok, as did Alma 37:7. 

So I suppose that was ¨Neat¨ or ¨Rad¨ or something the teenagers would say.   

Also Yesterday I had the opportunity to carry out a bautisimal interview, my first, with Vanes from Haiti. He was born and raised there, with his now wife, Adline. They´ve been in Chile for almost a year and a half (I actually sent you a photo of him, he´s a real baller). He has a terrific testimony of the church, Jesus Christ our savior, the book of mormon, Joseph Smith,etc. We talked a lot about his experiences in Haiti and why the gospel of Jesus Christ, and his Church on the earth, has, is, and will continue to change this fallen world. It´s no secret that Haiti is the 2nd poorest country in the world, and has been literally destroyed in the past by earthquakes. We talked a little bit about the challenges, the poverty, the hunger, that is found there, and what we can do to change those things, "teaching people to fish, and feeding them for a lifetime." That power is found in Christ´s church today. Vanes said that the church is small in Haiti, it´s just beginning, but is ever growing. Every little thing we can do to help spread the gospel of Jesus Christ is important, from serving in our own wards, to donating generously to fast offerings, and other church funds. Mormon 8:35-37.

Vanes and I both left the bautismal interview very very edified, and I´m very grateful for that opportunity. He also gave the closing prayer in French, and I´d like to learn now as well. Along with Chinese. 

Also, as a preperation for the kid´s misions, ha well really for life, and for your missions, I encourage you all to start studying preach my gospel with me. It´s life changing, and there are so so so many things that should be applied there in EVERY aspect of life!

Love you all! I´m going to go buy some stuff with my good pal Elder Tait! Peaces! Thanks for Everything!