
Hey! ok so the best things first..
WE HAVE A BAPTISM THIS SATURDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!! YEAHHH first one!!! Margarita actually said yes. Here i will give you the background and everything about it. ok, so this past saturday i think, yeah other missionaries were having a baptism at the ocean... and at first i was like, wow, how the heck can i do that? that would be awesome and so i wanted to go and watch. so it was half selfish: me going to the baptism, but that's okay right?? But anyways, so i thought we should call up margarita and see if she can come and so we did and she said "the beach? ok, sure i'll go." so we were/ i was really stoked and happy, my companion elder cisneros doesn't show alot of emotion, haha its funny though. the only problem we had was trying to find a ride for them, and so that was the hard part. because first of all, not a lot of people have cars and everything. so we pulled out the ward directory and looked up who we could ask to give a ride. we practically called everyone. i mean like everyone, and no one could help. so i was ready to start to fight someone or something to get out the frustration, kus all i wanted was for margarita to see this baptism and then something popped in my head, and i thought, hey, we need to pray and ask for help. at first i thought well that's kind of corny. but i did it anyways and we called this brother who is less active and hasn't been to church in like 4 months and the miracle was that he said yes! and I couldn't like control myself, i was so happy. it was crazy, it was like the best thing that happened to me. i started like dancing and everything, my companion, hahaha, he thinks i am crazy, but thats okay. But just from that, i know that it was God, there isn't any other explanation for that. it doesn't make any sense. it was a simple thing i know, and God probably could have blessed us with that before, but i think, well at least for me, that i needed to learn that we need to go to God first. there are a lot of good things that God wants to give us and help us out with, but first we need to ask him in faith, it's true what it says in Moroni. That God works with men/women according to their faith. i know that from the little time i have been out, and it's just crazy the kind of things we can do with faith, and going along with that. we had a meeting with the whole zone this past week and we watched this show called "A Man without Eloquence." It was awesome, it talked about a testimony of this guy that changed the whole perspective of Brigham Young, before he was even baptized. It was a simple testimony, nothing more than what was in his heart. But Brigham Young said that simple testimony was what made him change and actually want to read the scriptures and find out for himself. for me, that hit me hard because tons and tons of times i am like shoot why am i here? this is hard, my spanish isn't the best and i am not good at teaching and all that junk. But it gave me some strength to know that happened with Brigham Young. if a simple testimony of the truth that we know changed him, then we can do the same thing with the people we know. I know that if we just try and just trust God with all our heart, might, mind and soul, leaving our weaknesses behind, he will strenthen us in what ever thing is good for us. because he loves us. i have felt that love a lot especially on my mission, good times and the hard times. but yeah next email kus i got to send my pictures k.
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