Good to hear that Amanda is back, how´s she doing?
Lol I guess we will have to see about my accent. I hope that it isnt
horrible, but I am sure that I will throw in a lot of spanish words as I speak,
or at least as I think I will have to translate as I go, because thats what I do
as I write you guys.
So this week we didnt get to work very much because we had zone leader
conference and I just haven´t been feeling very good. But even with that God
blesses us, we found a 22 year old kid named Carlos Quispe Yauri and he is da
bomb. Like so cool. E. Stoddard and I contacted him while we were on splits and
the next day right before ending the splits we went over to "teach" him. He had
read the entire pamphlet that we had left him and marked everything that he
didnt understand, he expressed to us that he hasnt been baptized yet and that
after reading our pamphlet he gained a desire to do so...THAT JUST HAPPENED!
What? Talk about people that the Lord prepares for us! Anyways we taught him
about the covenant of baptism which only made him even more excited to get
baptized and he commited to read the Book of Mormon and read the pamphlet
(folleto sounds soooooo much better, pamphlet is just idk...blech). The next day
(Sat) we showed up and he had read all of 2 Nephi 31 and the pamphlet and loved
it. So we made sure he understood everything and since he hadnt prayed about it
we commited him to doing it and he said he would come to church the next day. So
we got to church a little late trying to bring another kid to church (also named
Carlos Quispe haha) but without success. But we walk into sacrament meeting and
who do we see? Oh yes...CARLOS! Woot! He was sitting with Emmanuel, who just got
off his mission in April and they were already best buds.
Later that day we were on splits with the members and E. Sulcaray went to
visit him and according to him, Carlos is awesome and had prayed and recieved an
answer that the BoM is true, Joseph Smith is a prophet and that he needs to get
baptized. Sweet! Bad news is that he might be going on a trip for a couple days.
Good news is he might bring his whole family back with him so that they can see
his baptism. So I guess we´ll have to see.
This week in Zone Leaders Conference we talked a lot about faith and how
faith is both action and power. Normally we just think about faith being action
and usually thats how it works for us but faith is also power and in order for
it to be converted to power we must exercise enough faith as action on a
belief until we accomplish something, then it is no longer faith, but knowledge
and as Alma explains, when somebody knows something believing is no longer
necessary. In Ether we always think about how the brother of Jared had so much
faith that he could see Jesus Christ in his premortal state, but afterwards, in
Ether 3:19 Moroni explains that it is "because of the knowledge of this
man that he could not be kept from beholding" So yeah kind of a cool insight
from Pte Fernandez, and he learned that from E. Christofferson.
Love you all!
Elder Patrik Connole
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