DEAR FAMILY!
Another fruitfull week in
the mission! We were a bit dissappointed with the number of
investigators that were in attendance at church this sunday but we had a
baptism after which just fires you up again!
This week CHEWIE got baptized and set an amazing example for his family!
Presidente Bogardus performed the ordinance and Elder Keller and I gave a
lesson during the program. Hermana Bogardus sang and played the piano
at the same time and it was amazing! The spirit was there the whole time
and I know he felt it. He is always telling us how "HIS" holy
ghost keeps talking to him. He said afterwards that he just felt so
light! He has come such a long way. He used to be into drugs and all
this crazy stuff but know here he is being BAPTIZED! He has such a
strong testimony and I am edified when I teach him everytime. Chewie is
amazing and so is his family. Now we are working on his wife Stephanie
who is a bit more stubborn but someday they are all going to be in that
temple in Portland!
Before the baptism we had
a fiesta for the baptism and Chewie didnt show up!!! I was so nervous
that he was just not going to show or something. Turns out Stephanie was
sick because she is pregnant with her third child. We had the fiesta
without him and then just waited and waited. He showed up 15 min before
the baptism and totally missed his own fiesta. Next step for him is the
priesthood and the temple!
Mom and Dad thank you soooo much for raising me the way you did!
I meet so many
people here that just dont know what it is like to have a real
functioning family. They feel lost in life and they just dont know that
this is what they need. Thanks for teaching me how to be clean and not
afraid to get dirty and all the little things as well.
Thanks for the Scripture
mastery cards too they are great and I love seeing the new ones that are
out. One thing that I like about this companionship thing is that we
have comp inventory and we can bring up things that are preventing us
from bonding better. It works well and I was wondering if implimenting
it in the family would work at all.... Instead of calling people out on
something during the day then try just sitting down with them at a
specific time and humbly talk about how to improve. Have you all seen
the family mission plan video online? Look it up and make a plan!
One of our investigators asked if there was a smoking room in the temple! Funny people we get to teach here
Cool story.... so we see some latinos balling it up so we decide to
turn it into a teaching opportunity. We made the bet that if we won we
got to teach them a lesson from the book of mormon and if not we had to
rake all their leaves. So Elder Keller and I balled them up and got a
lesson out of it! THAT IS A FUN WAY TO GET LESSONS! It is weird how the
latinos here dont dig soccer very much. They love football basketball
and track! I have met a few soccer players though which is always fun.
Another cool story is that one of our investigators, Angel had a dream
like Lehi!!! He said that he dreamed that he was being baptised and that
Elder Allen and Elder Keller were right there beside him! I was like
BOO YA! GETTING DUNKED! I love the guy but I think he is a bit nervous
to come to church. So pray for Angel!
The plants that we have on the fence on our property are everywhere
here and the just grow like crazy. Maybe the ones at home just need
more agua?!! It kills me to see these Blackberry bushes here just filled
with unpicked dried up berries! If I would have been just a month
earlier I could have eaten them all!
We are working hard on getting less actives back to church. The
majority of the less actives do not attend because of hard feelings
against other members of the branch. I am trying hard to find a cure to
this problem and hope that our branch can have the numbers in attendance
that it should. Any ideas would be appreciated!
LOVE YOU ALL LOTS!
TILL NEXT WEEK
-ELDER ALLEN
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