Dear home,
This week felt so long but yet it
went by so fast. We started off by
going to the Los Angeles temple
with the MLC and our mission president
(or our general authority now
haha). We had to get up really early,
and we barely made it. My companion
thought he set the alarm, but he
forgot to actually turn it on... So
we were zooming to Arcadia from
Los Angeles and midway I realized
that I didn't have my temple
recommend... I thought I was going
to be that guy in the group, but I
wasn't the only one. Luckily,
president Becerra has the hook ups and
talked to the workers there and
they gave us a temporary recommend.
After all the stress, lack of food,
and hustle of the morning, it was
nice to be inside the temple and
feel the spirit. It was amazing! If
you haven't gone yet, you need to
go, because it is just amazing. I
learned a lot.
Right after the
session, we all stayed in our white
clothes and went to the chapel
inside and the temple president talked
to us. We had a Q and A and a lot
of people asked about certain temple
processes but a lot of his
responses consisted of "I don't know." He
said that not even president Thomas
S. Monson knows, they have just
received revelation that that's how
it needs to be so that's how it
is. Pretty interesting... After the
temple session, we went to the
visitors center to have the MLC
meeting. We pretty much spent the
whole day there! We focused a lot
on planning and a relating planning
to God planning the creation, fall,
atonement. Needless to say, after
all was done, I was very tired and
hungry... Which seems to happen
consistently ahaha.
There is a lot I feel like I could
say, but I am just going to focus
on what has happened in the area.
We have been finding a lot of great
investigators who are very
prepared, we set 3 new baptismal
dates this week and each on the first
lesson! I love finding those
humble, ready people haha. Jose S. Is
doing great too! We only got to
teach him once this past week, but
when we did, it was awesome. We
gave him a church tour and he asked alot of questions about baptism.
Such as, what he needs to wear, what
he needs to do, how it is, etc.. It
seems like it is still running
through his mind, which is awesome!
He asked if he could by his own
clothes when he gets baptized to
cover his arms since he has tattoos
from the wrists all the way up to his
chest and back. We were so
impressed with all his questions!
The member we brought with us even
dropped a hint of Jose getting
married (he lives with his girlfriend)
and he said that is something he
wants to do and has actually been
thinking about! So cool! It's been
really cool to see him each visit.
He just keeps looking happier and
happier.
One of the baptismal dates we set
this week is a man named Jose
(another Jose, you find a lot of
people named Jose, Jesus, and Maria).
Very humble guy I met at a taco
stand and accepted a visit from us and
was very open and ready. We
introduced the Book of Mormon to him the
second lesson and he loved it. He
was on the verge of crying as we
shared it, so awesome!
It has been a really great week!
This is the last week of the
transfer, elder fellows and I will
probably stay together for another,
but we'll see!
Something kinda interesting that
happened as well is that we had a
nice dinner with our episcopalian
neighbors. There is an episcopalian
church down the street and the
"Franciscan brotherhood" of that church
live by it. So they actually
invited us to dinner this past week. It's
a really nice house with 5
episcopalian priests from all over the
world. When we first walked in,
they were reading scriptures and
reciting prayers haha, so we sat
and read with them. And then one of
the priests who is from England,
made us some delicious food. Only
thing is that there were no
tortillas... It was a pretty cool
experience haha. But anyways, all
is well in arroyo, love you!!
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