December 26, 2012

Dad I´m sorry I never got the chance to skype with you yesterday. The laptop I was using ran out of battery while I was talking to Mom and the kids. I couldn´t even say goodbye to them. And I brought the laptop from another house so I didn´t have the charger with me. I hope we can talk for hours about everything very soon. Only a few more months. Wow! I can´t believe it.

On saturday, Julia, the mom of three members that had been less active for awhile, was bapitzed. It was cool because I had taught once before when I was last here. Her husband is warming up quite a bit to the church as well. On saturday we ate dinner with Ruben, the one Elder Hurtado and I taught and baptized about a year ago, and his family. Last christmas eve we ate there as well. How funny is that. This saturday we have two more baptisms planned. The mother and the daughter of a recently baptized couple.

The other day we were walking down the street and we saw a lady and what looked like her daughter or granddaughter carrying a big water jug and we stopped to help them carry it back to their house. The lady turned out to be someone my companion had gone to look for several times that had at one time talked with missionaries before. She told us about the tragic and sudden death of her husband about three months ago and asked us if we could help her understand what happens after death. Another testimony that the Lord puts the people that need the gospel in our path, but only if we are looking to serve and help them. Later we helped another man in a wheelchair get up a bunch of steps that lead up to his house and he also accepted a return appointment.

My main goals before I finish my mission are to develop true charity and christ-like love for others and to be able to better recognize the promptings of the Spirit. I feel like I have already blessed with a lot of help in these two areas during my mission, but I also still feel like they are the two areas in which I still need the most work.

My companion is cool. He´s from Durango and he´s really smart. It´s good the finally have a companion that gets up right a 6:30 with me and that motivates me to be better.

I just finished reading the Book of Mormon again on Saturday. Wow. Just like Elder Tad R. Callister said, "The devil could not have written a book like this; so, it must be from God." Every time I read the Book of Mormon I learn so much and my faith and my determination to keep the commandments and follow my Savior are strengthened. If you´re not already doing it, please read it, study it, prayerfully meditate the priceless truths that it contains and your life will change.

I love you guys. I don´t know why my mind goes blank when we finally have the opportunity to talk for real.

Brett